Divas hosted debauched salons on them, and a Nobel laureate wrote a novel on one. “They’re a kind of romantic dream,” one well-known writer said. “They’re so much a part of the heritage of Cairo.”
John Wreford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(CAIRO, Egypt) Ekhlas Helmy, 88, has spent decades waking up every morning to the scenery of the Nile