Then we stepped out to examine the work in progress on the Avenue of Sphinxes just in the back of the library. It was dusty and dry there. Only one pedestal had kept its sphinx in the immediate vicinity.
One of Attaya Gaddis “specialties,” I was told, was photographing British soldiers as they arrived in Egypt during World War Two. His family has maintained their special relationship with the British. The British Consulate in Luxor is the family’s tenant.
The former press attaché invited me to see “the first library of Egyptology” that had been recently opened in Luxor.
I tagged along for some parts. The next evening we met the local notables at a dinner given on behalf of the governor. One was a woman physician who was running for the national legislature. This was the election season and I had noticed her face among the posters around town.
At dawn I was awakened by azan, the call to prayer, broadcast on loud speakers in the neighborhood mosques. I walked on the balconies that rounded the floor where my room was located to see who else was up. There were no lights on in any of the nearby buildings.
The bigger hotel on the other side of the street seemed empty. The quiet of the street was broken by the click clacks of caleche, horse driven carriages, more often than the occasional passing cars.
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