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Niveen Gets Married: Day One: The Mattress
Slip down one of Cairo's residential alleyways and attend the three-days of ceremonies celebrating the wedding of one of its daughters.
Niveen Gets Married: Day Two: Stick Dancing
Traditionally, the second wedding night is dedicated to the vining of women's arms and hands with henna. At Niveen's wedding, the women decorated themselves during the day, meaning that the night could be takenn over by the men's spectacular displays of stick dancing.
At last, the bride is in white, crowned and on a dais. The music, dancing and ululating escalate until the final recessional down the alley to the car and the fabulously decorated apartment for the newlyweds.
Places
Cairo roofs play light and shadow as skillfully as a forest
Camel Souq (Market)
Turbaned traders, clouds of dust, forests of legs, screeching irate animals: Except for its size, the camel souq just outside Cairo operates pretty much the way it has for a thousand years of so.
Once crammed with millions who lived over the sepulchres of the dead, Cairo's enormous cemetery is now a quiet, peaceful neighborhood for those not bothered by having a less than fashionable address.
We're asking Egyptians to send us photos of the Nile they see as opposed to the one tourist's visit. What you see here is a starter collection.
Wander through Port Said and Port Fuad, living albums of the French/Egyptian past.....Stroll under the latticed shadows of weathered balconies.....Take a ferry across the Mediterranean mouth of the Suez Canal.....Visit the high end container port....Amble the long line of vibrantly colored fishing boats and tugs....Kiss a Mediterranean sunset.
Pyramids
We're asking Egyptians to send us picture of the Pyramids they see as opposed to the one tourist's visit. What you see here is a starter collection.
As every school child knows, the Nile has irrigated small farms since the beginnings of history. What do small farms look like today? Take a walk.