By Abir Sorour
Posted on Monday, 5 September 2022 16:30
From being a destination for weddings to a place where the country’s foreign and local policies are engineered, Al-Masa Hotel is seen as a military shrine embedded in the civilian life of contemporary Egypt.
This is part 6 of a 7-part series
Nasr City, a suburban neighbourhood in Cairo, can easily be the busiest district in the city, due to a number of shopping malls, residential areas, bureaucratic complexes, and civilian military buildings. Right next to a lingerie store you might see a military unit and opposite a shopping mall with a big banner advertising the most recent Marvel film, there might be a military intelligence affiliated facility with heavily guarded soldiers.
However, there’s one street that always remains void of traffic: Dr Abd El-Aziz El-Shennawy Street, home to Egypt’s current place of power: Al-Masa Hotel.
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