5/20/2023 0 Comments Tower of Dreams by Jamil NasirThen there was Cairo, haunting and indescribable, from the cabaret boats plying a Nile lined by luxury hotels to the slum towns in the vast, dusty graveyards from the hot, packed markets dinning with low-tech commerce to the tranquility of the ornate mosques from the beautiful 5,000-year-old stone goddesses in the Egyptian Museum to a movie industry thriving on kitsch and a language so supple and passionate that even the gaudiest melodrama gives you chills. I wanted to write about its hot, jostling, ancient, human-intense feel, its blinding days and jasmine nights, its silent ruins baking in the stillness of orange groves. First, I had found portrayals of the Middle East in most science fiction to be the most astonishing malarkey. "Tower of Dreams" flowed from many compulsions.
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