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Cairo, The Mother Of The World, is a fond recollection of the author’s years living and working in Cairo. It is a combination of travel book, autobiography, and memoir.

The incidents related in the narrative are all actual events and are told as the author experienced them. They combine to make the telling of this story a flowing and somewhat humorous account of life for an American expatriate in the city of Cairo during the last years of the twentieth century. The story may be current, but the city of Cairo is ageless, and will always retain its own essential “being,” for Egyptians and expats alike, as the Mother of the World.





From the Back cover

Cairo: The Mother of the World explores the heart of a city that most tourists never see—an affectionate, humorous close-up of the aggregation that is Cairo, as well as an adventure among the streets, tombs, houses, and monuments that are the city yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

Many have said that Cairo doesn’t change, but it does, very slowly, with a foot in the past and the other stepping toward the future. That is the Cairo evident here, among all the confusion and noise and sand. And that is the Cairo many expatriates come to love.

Love it with us as we walk among the people of the city and share the joy of life that only the true Cairene is capable of appreciating amid the gigantic jumble we call home. It will be an unexpected treat.