I’m on holiday in North Cyprus. Like a dutiful son, I’ve come to meet my mother. She hates Cairo, and England in February sucks. So we’re meeting half way. We’re doing a tour together, which for an ex-tour leader is sort of bizarre. I hope I don’t turn out to be a back seat leader! [...]
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Background
Souq al-Goma’a, the Friday Market, is one of the largest in Cairo. It’s just south of the Citadel, sandwiched between the southern City of the Dead (the rather macabre Hammer-horror name given to the Mamluk-era cemeteries) and a poor neighbourhood called Khalifa.
It stretches further than the eye can see, under the Autostrade, along some [...]
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