 The old Cairo Opera House (left); and golf at Gezira Club "Perhaps it is their perceptions of Cairo that have endured, rather than the reality, for the Shawam have emigrated, the British are gone and the pashas are no more. In the end, it seems that these people, too, were 'out of place,' a place that has now well and truly disappeared. parent page (22 - 28 December 2005, issue #774) |