Cairo

This is the view from the apartment that I'm subletting for July. It's on a little plaza (midan) in a very residential middle/upper-middle-class neighborhood called Agouza. The local economy seems to run on cell phones and falafel, fresh vegetables and soda. In addition to falafel (taamiya) and foul (fava bean mush), pitas can also be filled at falafel places with fried poatoes of various types, eggplant, tomato and other salads, and various sauces. Evenings there are as many as three men with cactus-fruit carts, and an occasional grape cart.