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Sabil of Naguib Mahfouz in Cairo, Egypt
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August 1, 2010 |
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Back in the hot light. This was the stomping ground of Naguib Mahfouz, this stretch of street giving its name to the first book in his Cairo Trilogy, Bayn El Qasrayn. From its opening pages, Amina looked down at the cistern from behind the mashrabiyya mesh of her window. She had never walked the street. Her world was the home of her tyrannical husband, of Islam, of tradition. Her Cairo was wholly mediated by the geometries of mashrabiyya--the wooden lattice behind which the women of Amina's world were hidden.
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