Hear Voices from Old Cairo: A Worried Mother

A letter from the Genizah: A worried mother in Alexandria writes to her son in Fustat (2:21)

Image: From E.W. Lane, Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836).

Selected audio used in the exhibit A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Old Cairo, presented at the Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago, February 17–September 13, 2015
Content: © 2015, The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago. Interface © Brenda López Silva

Visit the Special Exhibit website: https://oi.uchicago.edu/museum-exhibits/special-exhibits/cosmopolitan-city-old-cairo

Видео Hear Voices from Old Cairo: A Worried Mother канала The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures