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| Cairo, “Al Qahira", means
" the one who defeats" is Egypt's
capital, the largest city in Africa and
home to 18 million people, as well as
foreign businessmen, scholars, and refugees,
a true melting pot of different cultures.
Cairo extends for over 35 kilometers along
the eastern bank of the Nile. The historical
stage of many sensational events, built
and rebuilt over a thousand years. Cairo
is a galaxy of movement and light at night
and by day, overwhelming with its size,
sounds and colours |
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No matter how many times
you visit Cairo, it will never seem enough.
No matter how chaotic, noisy, and unpredictable
it may seem to some, Cairo does still
retain the qualities of the “Mother
of the World” and a visit to Cairo
is a life defining experience. A history
of four and half thousand years has left
the marks on this city and people, where
technology and monuments exist side by
side. It’s possible to move from
the medieval to Islamic Cairo to the Pharaonic
monuments at the Museum and then take
your lunch in a French Restaurant without
having to move out of Cairo. |
Apart from being a meeting point between
Arab and European cultures, Cairo, is
still the sophisticated metropolitan that
gave the world a Nobel prize winner, Naguib
Mahfouz, and the world’s oldest
functioning university, Al Azhar. Timelessness
is what Cairo is all about and time is
what it needs to be given, in order for
it to reveal just a part of its secrets.
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