By Stephen Farley

ISBN-10: 1500574465

ISBN-13: 9781500574468

In 1983, a 20-year-old child from California wandered right into a market in downtown Cairo, Egypt, searching for a few eggs to cook dinner for dinner. What he present in the Suq Bab el-Louq used to be a desirable international of trade, ritual, group, and private drama — continuously altering, but unchanged for many years upon decades.

Truth is certainly extra impressive than fiction. those tales draw the reader into an intimate reference to the folks of a tradition that few Westerners have skilled at this point, a tradition that we needs to comprehend greater as we search to appreciate and dwell in concord with the Arab world.

The tales inside of are endangered. a lot has replaced in Cairo some time past thirty years, and the suq and its denizens have all yet disappeared because the web and international exchange have altered the best way we store. within the pages of this unheard of publication, the suq lives on.

This is a set of attractive black and white photos with a gripping narrative tale of the Suq's denizens and the way where works. Economists, historians, tourists, political scientists, lovers of the center East, and basic readers might be entranced through this virtually uncategorizable yet unmissable gem of a publication.

Come inside of. you'll always remember what you find.

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