title: Cairo: The City Victorious
author:  Max Rodenbeck 
description: Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia, Cairo has eluded all who would try to pin it down, reinventing itself time and again: "It has survived countless invasions, booms and busts, famines, plagues, and calamities." Author Max Rodenbeck, a correspondent for the <i>Economist</i>, moved to Cairo as a 2 year old, and has spent a good portion of his professional life working there. He finds himself repulsed by the crowds and pollution of a late 20th-century megacity, yet drawn by Cairo's ageless vibrancy. <i>Cairo: The City Victorious</i> combines wide-ranging history and first-person travelogue in an unconventional narrative that bounces easily from the present to the past and back again. ("If the story were to loop and tangle and digress," he writes, "well, that too would be in the character of Cairo.") Immersed in Rodenbeck's prose, readers will find themselves feeling at home as they discover (or rediscover) this unique place, its pyramids, and its people. <i>--John J. Miller</i>
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  LAST TRAIN TO CAIRO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LAST TRAIN TO CAIRO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PAUL Q COHEN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
  
  UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  
  
  
  2021
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright (C) 2021 by Paul Q Cohen
  
  
  
  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or
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  publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly
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  ISBN 978-1-7369548-1-2
  
  
  
  Some names and other identifying information have been changed to protect the
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  This edition published
  
  April 2021
  
  Boston, Massachusetts
  
  United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CONTENTS
  
  
  
  [ Welcome to Egypt ](text00004.html#_Toc67928678)
  
  [ The Pyramid Hustle ](text00005.html#_Toc67928679)
  
  [ The Eighteenth Floor ](text00006.html#_Toc67928680)
  
  [ Cairo Underground ](text00007.html#_Toc67928