1920s Cairo drew jazz musicians, dancers, and performers fleeing post-WWI Europe, building one of the era's most unlikely cosmopolitan entertainment scenes.
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How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s
“Egypt is a country where the Egyptians reign, English rule, and everybody does as he pleases.” So two African American residents of Ezbekiyya wrote in a letter of December 1923, published in the A…
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