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A Pious Errand – a short story set in Old Cairo in 1042 CE
Saadya son of Suwayd elbowed his way with a few polite excuse-me’s in Arabic through the crowd of hawkers at the corner of the Street of the Waxmakers in al-Fustat and kept on walking. The large bundle...
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Sacred Storeroom
The Cairo Genizah – currently on show at the British Museum as part of the exhibition Egypt: Faith after the Pharoahs – is a collection like no other from the Middle Ages: a huge accumulation of...
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