WOMEN ABOUT TOWN
IN HISTORIC CAIRO, you don’t just see the sights—you feel them. Between the whoosh of cyclists and the wafting scent of piping-hot flatbread, my senses couldn’t keep up.
“Ready for a snack?” asked my guide, Asmaa Khattab. I obviously wasn’t the first of her clients to be both dazzled and disoriented by this corner of the city. The cobblestoned maze of mosques and monuments dates century—the largest collection of medieval architecture in the Islamic world. But such relics were only half of the story.
