All pictures in this post copyright Yasir Khan 2007.Ramzan (ramadan to many of you) turns Cairo upside down.
You sleep when it's time to eat, eat when you're supposed to sleep, work when you normally go home, and go home during work hours.
Traffic takes a break too. Normally, by 6pm, all roads here become exhaust-filled parking lots.
But not tonight, when Ahson and I decide to check out ramzan in Khan-al-khalili (aka the Khan).
We drive through a dead city, to a dead market.
It's iftar: time to break the fast. So everybody's either eating, praying, or waiting for the post-iftar stampede.
Ahson and I make our way to the Al Fishawy cafe.
I've read that Naguib Mahfouz would come here to write.
As we smoke shisha, and sip mint tea, the post-iftar stampede begins.Traffic, touts, temper tantrums.
A girl tries to sell Ahson keychains, while balancing a newborn.
A Somali dude named "Mark" shares his Chapelle's Show DVD.
2 comments:
Today, I'm wearing the necklace that Ameena brought back for me from Khan-al-Khalili last year...before I had any idea you would be writing to me from there or that I would be seeing it myself within 12 months! isnt it incredible the way life unfolds...
Due you gotta love the good ol middle east. Sheesha and Mint tea? it looked good man...ain't nothin like it....
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