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ELITE VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023
ELITE
VOL.1, Issue 56, june 2023

Not a lot of people in my circle get My Alexandria exists in the tens of
excited by the prospect of Alexandria songs named after it. My Alexandria

anymore, except perhaps families, like is, like almost all else, romanticized.
my own, who framed it as a haven Otherwise, it risks raising hopelessness
many generations ago. We were never within me. Although, being a “real”

a Sahel/Agami-going bunch, always city, I doubt Alexandria needs
preferring the bustling crowds of anything but its kind, ever-giving
Alexandria’s Maamora or the utter people, to survive.

calmness of the outskirts around
Marsa Matrouh. There was never
anything in the in-between for us. For

those who have grown up as Sahel
goers, however, Alexandria can be

underwhelming. You hear everyone
boasting about it and then you go and
find out that it is a city like any other.
Its sea colors are not as blue as it used

to be, its traffic is worse than Ramses
if you go anywhere inside the actual

city or during the holidays, and the
driving skills there are even more
questionable than that found in Cairo.
I can see where they are coming from,

but I turn a blind eye to all that
anyway.
My last visit to Alexandria was 2

The Alexandria I see is unparalleled, weeks ago. I went for the first time
its beauty untouched even with the with friends, most of which had never

passage of time and the harsh hand of been there before. We were lucky to
development. The Alexandria I love is have an Alexandrian friend with us as
a walk on Stanley Bridge, lunch at the guide, and I was relieved to give up

Greek Club, or an afternoon dessert at that job. Having been to almost every
Délices as you overlook the sea in the site the group wanted to visit though,
horizon. My Alexandria lives I told them I would go explore while

somewhere in my Grandma’s they visited other iconic landmarks.
memories in the 60’s and in my After a little walk on the promenade
mother’s stories about a long lost along the sea, I looked up the famous

cabin on the sea in the 80’s. sites nearby.

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