The Leonard Lopate Show

Also listeners might also read Andre Aciman on his family's life in Alexandria during that time period in Out of Egypt: A Memoir (1994)

I don't, but my father, who grew up in Cairo in the 40's and 50s, does. He loves to talk about how the Egyptian cinema was the 4th biggest in the world, how people wore formal dress to go to the movies and how beautiful the villas were (most were torn down for high rises). He still lives in Cairo but can barely tolerate going outside because it's so different from his youth.

I wonder if the author has read Lawrence Durrell's Alexandrian Quartet, which talks so extensively about old multi-cultural Egypt and its hold on the European imagination. Fascinating stuff.