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Streets of Cairo

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An Egyptian state agency that oversaw the conservation of Islamic monuments developed the complex of 27 buildings that became known as the “Streets of Cairo.” Chief architect Max Herz designed replicas of well-known buildings in Cairo—a mosque, a public fountain, and a kuttab (elementary Quran school). The buildings were mostly built in Egypt and shipped to Chicago, transporting fairgoers to the banks of the River Nile, where watermelons grow wild and residents sip on sugarcane-sweetened hibiscus tea.

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