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File photo of tarboush hats in Cairo. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
by Moataz Abdel Moneim | Feb 28, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Many questions spring to mind when walking through Cairo’s famous historic Al-Hussein district. One passes shopkeepers selling traditional garments or hawking rare Pharoaonic artifacts, as well as perfume shops whose aroma hangs heavily in the...
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Image of Naguib Mahfouz’s childhood home in Cairo, Egypt, taken on 11 December, 2013. (Asharq Al-Awsat)
by Moataz Abdel Moneim | Dec 14, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Naguib Mahfouz is one of Egypt’s most famous writers, and the only Arab writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mahfouz is most famous for his Cairo Trilogy, and so his name is inexorably linked with the Egyptian capital. Despite...