Cities have come and gone,
swept away by time. Cities have come and
lost their identities, trodden their past under
the unheeding feet of the present, thrown
their history away and ground it up in the waste disposal unit of
modernisation.
But there are some
cities whose past has survived challenging
the passage of centuries,
cities which have resisted destruction of their
identities.
Skylife-by Turgay Tuna/
Photos İzzet Keribar
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One such
celebrated city where past
and present coexist, which F~ has lost
little of its original
atmosphere is Cairo.
The gate to
Africa, Cairo’s splendid history goes back one
thousand years.
Cairo is renowned throughout the world
for the great pyramids of Giza, one of
the seven wonders of the world, its
ornate arabesque mosques, and its
souks fragrant with incense.
Perhaps the Virgin Mary came here when
she fled with the infant Jesus to Egypt
to escape the soldiers of J-Jerod,
although the city was not then founded.
With a population of sixteen million
today, Cairo is one of the largest six cities in
the world, and from the early
hours of the
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