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| | Cilantro's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The place referred to in her statement is Cilantro, a cosmopolitan coffee house located in one of the most distinguished areas of the city. |
 | | Cilantro’s Western atmosphere, is an artificially induced environment that serves to counteract the real outside world of Cairo, that is characterized by being relatively crowded, noisy and unclean. |
 | | Cilantro constitutes a class bound setting, that through various aspects tries to distinguish itself from other cafés by implicitly controlling its clientele, meaning it attracts only the high class of Egyptian elite, along with foreigners, that in Egypt are considered as high class, regardless of their social status in their country of origin. |
| www.aucegypt.edu /academic/anth/anth380/cilantro.htm (3024 words) |
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