A man pushes his cart along an almost deserted town in Cairo.
TEN pm arrives in Cairo’s Sayyida Zeinab neighbourhood with the same dogged tenacity as it does anywhere else, but down the fluorescent shopping streets and in the sidewalk cafes, few people used to glance at the clock.
It might have been near bedtime in other countries, but Cairo was practically still waking up.
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