Egypt: Whose Cairo Is Featured in Al-Qahira Music Video?

3 February 2016

Cairo — One of the two Egyptian music idols had just returned from Dubai, the other from Germany, to shoot a video of a duet sung in praise of a Cairo that they cannot actually stand living in, wrote a young Egyptian dentist in a Facebook post that was shared more than 7,600 times and liked by 26,000 people as of Wednesday.

"Cairo! Its Nile, its long nights, its songs, its rhythm, its stories, its beauty!" goes al-Qahira (Arabic for Cairo), a song and video featuring singers Amr Diab and Mohamed Mounir.

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