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In the winter of 1930-31 the Egyptian magazine al-Dunya al-Musawwara ran a series of articles documenting Cairo's underworld - "Hidden Cairo" - and delving into the city's murky underbelly. [Thread]
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About a year ago I came across a turn of the century book of poems about Cairo's nightlife district with a picture of an American woman I had never heard
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In 1932 a group of Chinese students arrived in Egypt on a scholarship to study at Al-Azhar. They were put up in the Takiya of Ibrahim al-Gulshani (which was damaged
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The story of Gilly-Gilly, the Egyptian magician who took Europe by storm... His real name was Dessouqi Hussein Mohammed. He started his career in 1910s Cairo and Alexandria doing tricks
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