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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2011-02-19 10:30 am

From The Archives- Cairo 1986

My daughter "borrowed" most of my pictures of ancient monuments, so what I'm left with are a few images of modern Cairo.

1. Inside the hotel



2. Outside the hotel



3. View across the city. The big enclosure with the central dome is the Ibn Tulun mosque


[identity profile] veronica-milvus.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 10:45 am (UTC)(link)
What I remember is the smog, and the poverty, and the people who lived inside tombs in the graveyards because there was nowhere else to live.

[identity profile] poliphilo.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Cairo was- and probably still is- a pretty grim place.