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Contact the Grand Lodge of Florida for information about your dad. The Grand Secretary in most states is quite helpful in that regard. https://www.grandlodgefl.com/contact/ If you know what state your grandfather was a Mason in, look for that web site.
Were your Rainbow and your mother's...
I would tend to think that any foreign jurisdiction that has practices or rules that violate your obligation, that jurisdiction is unlikely to be recognized by yours. Unrecognized, therefor visitation not allowed. End of quandary.
I'm not understanding what it is you're asking from us. Freemasonry is banned in Egypt. You're in Egypt. Therefore, there is no Freemasonry for you to join. Unless you move from Egypt to a country where Freemasonry is permitted, there's nothing we can do to help you.
I don't know about where you are, but here there are so few people who still have a landline phone that the phone company stopped distributing directories years ago.
I'd approach the WM informally to gauge his support. I would think any decent WM would be on board with it, and would simply add that item to the meeting agenda. Personally, I think every lodge should be doing an education piece in every stated meeting.
It would help if you told us where you are. Your best bet would be to contact the Grand Lodge of the jurisdiction in which you reside. They'll be able to tell you what is necessary to get reinstated, and steer you to a lodge.
While there are some jurisdictions in which a prior felony is not automatically disqualifying, leaving the final decision to the individual lodges, I'm fairly comfortable in saying that they would want, at a minimum, quite a few years to have elapsed before you'd even be considered. Even then...
Unless your obligation (not oath) is substantially different than mine, acknowledging that women Freemasons exist is not a violation. I can't sit in lodge with a woman Freemason, and I can't participate in making a woman a mason, nor can I discuss anything considered "secret" by my Grand Lodge...