Should you be walking down the old Khan al-Khalil Market in Cairo, take a seat at one of the streetside cafés made of plastic chairs and a small table and order mint tea. If you are lucky, musicians might stop by. We booked them for an hour at the price of a CD and listened to classical Arabic songs by Abdel Halim Hafez and Umm Kalthoum, two of Egypt's most famous singers.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
On the streets of Cairo
Should you be walking down the old Khan al-Khalil Market in Cairo, take a seat at one of the streetside cafés made of plastic chairs and a small table and order mint tea. If you are lucky, musicians might stop by. We booked them for an hour at the price of a CD and listened to classical Arabic songs by Abdel Halim Hafez and Umm Kalthoum, two of Egypt's most famous singers.
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