Take a journey through the socioeconomic landscape of 1970s Cairo

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A Bar on Adly Street transports you to 1970s Cairo: The 2022 memoir of retired structural engineer Medhat Ghabrial A Bar on Adly Street tells the story of a hopeless romantic navigating life through a rapidly changing Egypt. The story begins in the early 70s just as then-President Anwar El Sadat takes office and as vast changes to the country’s social and economic fabric begin to unfold. It is against this backdrop that Ghabrial copes with the challenges of being a young teaching assistant at a public university, pursuing a relationship with one of his students and being a Coptic Christian in an increasingly hostile social environment.