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Cairo (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Max Rodenbeck’s intriguing look at Cairo presents the city, not as a single place, but as an amalgam of different towns, each springing up at a different moment of history. These settlements that would one day merge to form Cairo may have arisen close to one another physically, but each was completely unique in its origin, as well as in the temperament and outlook of its people. According to Rodenbeck, the city that is now known as Cairo began as Yunu, an ancient settlement sacred to the sun god, and known to the Hebrews as On and to the Greeks as Heliopolis. Over time, Yunu came to...

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