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EGYPT - Inside Cairo's Living Room, December 2003
a FRONTLINE/World Fellows project
Cairo's Cafes: Taste and Tradition
Crowd's reaction to TV action
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I figured that the cafés were where the much-talked-about "Arab street" goes to hang out and mull over what it should tell foreign reporters. So what are these guys talking about? Is this where anti-U.S. jeremiads get a regular workout?

Not very often, as it turns out. "We usually talk about cards," says Ibrahim Mohamed, 68. "These games, they make people drunk and crazy. We can talk about them for hours. Talk about them and play them. We play basra, chellah and sometimes poker."
Cairo's Streets: Go