Friday literary salon at Casino Kasr el-Nil
· Casino Kasr el-Nil, Cairo, Egypt

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file Mahfouz attended a weekly Friday-evening session at Casino Kasr el-Nil, a salon that brought emerging writers and literary figures to him. The statement appears in a 1992 interview. The venue is described elsewhere as near the Opera; coordinates are a representative point in that area.