Quotes About Cairo

On the choppers were twenty-three SEALs and a Pakistani-American who spoke the local language, Pashto. If crowds gathered at the Abbottabad compound, he would tell people there was a Pakistani military exercise going on and they should go home. Also on the flight to Abbottabad was a dog named Cairo, who would prevent "squirters" from sneaking out of the compound, sniff out any explosives, and hunt for possible safe rooms.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

I think the first time I watched 'Aladdin' was when I was still in Egypt, because I was born in Cairo.

That summer, Egyptian army officers eagerly anticipated their liberation by Rommel's Afrika Korps. They were thrilled by the arrival in Cairo of two German spies, Hans Eppler and another man known only as "Sandy." Captain Sadat was crestfallen, however, to witness the frivolous behaviour of the two agents, whom he found living on the Nile houseboat of the famous belly dancer Hikmet Fahmy.

Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis which nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...

I asked father whether they led. 'Like everything else in Cairo' he said, 'Round and round in circles, to everywhere and nowhere.

Ze schrijven dat jullie vader, een ongelovige, alle waarschuwingen in de wind heeft geslagen en de heilige resten van Toet heeft verstoord," ging Howard verder. "Om zijn macht te handhaven heeft de koning wraak genomen. En om iedereen op de hoogte te brengen van zijn ongenoegen, liet hij dus alle lichten in Cairo uitgaan op het moment dat jullie vader stierf.