Life in Modern Egypt
By Ba-Ankh-Amen
Life in modern Egypt is a study in contrasts, especially in Cairo,
where the constant blasting of the car horns and the loudspeakers
of its thousand minarets proclaim both the hectic present and the
contemplative past. Modern skyscrapers, highways, a subway system,
hotels, restaurants, advertising and western clothing blend together
with ancient pharaonic ruins, Islamic mosques, Coptic churches,
Middle Eastern garb, bazaars and the odor of cattle in a unique
mosaic of life in modern Egypt. I once witnessed a huge caravan
of farmers, donkeys and camels making a right turn on a principal
Cairo avenue.
Egypt today is a republic with a parliamentary government, a president as head of state and a judicial system based on british common law and Islamic moral law. The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is a powerful figure,...
