Frontline World

EGYPT - Inside Cairo's Living Room, December 2003
a FRONTLINE/World Fellows project
Cairo's Streets: Sights, Sounds, Smells
Reading a newspaper with lunch dishes stacked on his head
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An enterprising 14-year-old might subcontract to his neighbor's lunch cart to deliver plates of food to the local shopkeepers, then on the return trip wash the dishes at a street-side faucet rented by another entrepreneur.
Cairo's Cafes: Go