Frontline World

EGYPT - Inside Cairo's Living Room, December 2003
a FRONTLINE/World Fellows project
Cairo's Streets: Sights, Sounds, Smells
Policemen window-shopping at a gun shop
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My friends back home had implored me: "Please be careful over there ..." Most left unsaid their judgment that terrorism in the Arab world made such a trip a foolhardy venture. I felt a little nervous too. But then I stepped off the plane and into the hot, spiced air of a Cairo summer night. "Where you are from?" asked a man next to me in the jovial, jostling passport control queue. Before I could even answer, he clapped me on the shoulder, winked and shouted, "Welcome in Cairo!"
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