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Bookmark & shareCairenes tend to make their own entertainment, which largely revolves around simple socialising. For the men this often centres on the ahwa , or coffeehouse, which is to Cairo what the pub is to London or cafe to Paris. Women tend to do their visiting at each others' homes.
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