Interview with Raphael Cormack, author of "Midnight in Cairo": From dust to glory – the divas of Egypt's roaring 20s
-Aziz Street has become a cinema, while its shell is now used as storage for many of the shops around. Dubai of the 1920s: during the second half of the 19th century, Mohammed Ali’s grandson 'Ismail the Magnificent' turned Azbakeya into Egypt’s modern nightlife and entertainment district, opening Egypt’s first opera house there in 1869, as well as other theatres and a circus. By the 1920s, Cairo was a boom town, full of new investment and new development – one of the most cosmopolitan places in the world If you walk along Emad al -Din Street, which in the 1920s was the main centre of ...
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