Every Friday morning, Cairo takes a deep breath. The sky is
clear, the streets are unclogged, and the call to prayer
rises from the city's mosques through an extraordinary
silence. It's a wondrous pause for this megalopolis of 16
million. And a brief one. Within hours Cairo is roaring,
pouring, screaming, screeching, honking, hollering,
laughing, loitering, wheezing, teasing, rushing, crushing,
shoving, moving and grooving. Things are back to normal...
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