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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A review of the magazine Bidoun

An article on the 37th Cairo Book Fair

The High and Furrowed Brow of Galall Amin

Missing Alexandria: the Egyptian city and Western writing

Islam and Democracy by Fatima Mernissi

Screenwriter stirs up Christian controversy in Egypt

In the city of the Sultans, modern art pushes beyond its foothold

Cairo gallery draws a crowd

Cairo art exhibition blends the common with the surreal

Has one of feminism's great voices been drowned out?(Profile of Nawwal Saadawi)

Zahi Hawass: a strong personality is essential for a good archeologist

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