Morning routine at Tahrir Square
· Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt

Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · file In early 1990, Mahfouz regularly walked from his Agouza home to the Ali Baba Cafe at Tahrir Square to drink coffee and read newspapers. The routine is described in the context of the author's first meeting with Mahfouz on March 4, 1990; the source does not date each individual walk.