السبت، 16 أغسطس 2014

Khan el-Khalili

Khan el-Khalili, a neighborhood of Old Cairo, which has attracted a great tour for visitors to Cairo and Egypt in general. Features Bazaars and shops and popular restaurants, as characterized by abundant numbers of tourists and a population accustomed to them. 
Khan el-Khalili neighborhood was a source of inspiration for many writers, most notably the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz, who wrote one of his novels that takes place and the neighborhood bears his name, "Khan el-Khalili," which has been converted into a film starring actor Imad Hamdi.

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Khan el-Khalili is one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little over the age of 600 years, and still remains on the original architecture is unchanged since the Mamluk era and even now. Immigrated to him a large number of traders Palestinian city of Hebron and Sknoh and now has the community of the people of Hebron inhabit it and are working to trade and to them is attributed Khan el-Khalili in Cairo was called by this name proportion to its founder and is one of the princes Mamluks and was named Yarkas Khalili, a city of Hebron. 
If we go back to time back much will Itana Arab historian months (Makrisi) who says that Khan building large square surrounded by a courtyard and is similar to the agency, include a bottom layer of it stores, and includes the upper layers of the stores and housing, has been named this name relative to the origin Sharif (Khalili) which it was great merchants in the era of Sultan plum in 1400 AD. 

If the popular proverb says: "The guy runs the place Mathb", the first DBP on the ground Khan must be in Fishawy, who over the age of two hundred years, one of the oldest cafes of Cairo, and was the great writer Naguib Mahfouz of the most famous astronauts in the period the sixties of the twentieth century

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