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xGroppi: A Window into Egypt
Author: Maysoon Saqr
The book represents a research journey that began with a personal passion for the history of a place that appears as an icon in the tales of intellectuals. The journey continued for nearly ten years, starting with documenting photos and documents appearing in the book for the first time after they were made available by the cafe owners' family. It revealed the brightest moments of modern Egyptian history from the 1919 revolution to the January 2011 and June 30, 2013 revolutions. Maysoon Saqr considered the book a unique approach to addressing Cairo's history and its journey from a socio-cultural perspective, aiming to build a new narrative for this history based on small details, what historians call "history from below." The cafe appears in the book as a social incubator and a document of belonging, relying, in addition to visible and written sources, on many oral narratives and verifying them through various mechanisms of in-depth historical investigation and research. The author also presents correspondence from key figures in Egypt's history, as well as postage stamps and advertisements that reveal the vital role cafes played in artistic life, whether in theater or the world of music and singing. The book also documented love stories that flourished in Groppi's space, the most famous of which are the experiences of the poet Amal Dunqul with the critic Abla El-Rowainy and Abdel Rahman El-Abnoudy with his first wife, director Attiyat El-Abnoudy.
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