The taste of the koshary still breathes hot and crystalline on my tongue. It’s been almost twenty years since I left Cairo, but I still hear the hard music of the elevated food truck, a chorus of men shouting their order and waving small value bills at the chef’s in the back like they’re rock stars. I ate it nearly everyday, on autotune, they might as w…
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