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Article: TRAVEL: CitySNAPSHOT A weekend break in Cairo Diamond Giza.(Review)
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- The Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 14, 2002
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Byline: Iain Mayhew
IN THE famous 1,001 Nights stories, Cairo is called the Mother Of The World. "Its dust is gold," says the storyteller, "its Nile a wonder".
True. But he could have added that its air quality is like smoking a packet of cigarettes a day and the wonder is more people aren't killed trying to cross the road.
More than 16 million souls are crammed into Cairo's teeming backstreets. That's three times the population of London in an area almost half the size. A million Cairenes hurtle around in cars, few of which run on unleaded petrol ...