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The busiest, widest thoroughfare of downtown Cairo is Sharia setta w'ashreen Yulyu - more easily rendered as 26th July Street - which runs all the way from Ezbekiya Gardens across the Nile to Zamalek. Formerly called Fouad I, after Ismail's son, its current name commemorates the date of King Farouk's abdication in 1952, following a bloodless coup by the Free Officers three days earlier. Besides a slew of hotels - most noticeably the Grand - this stretch of the street features two sleazy nightclubs , a couple of liquor stores, and cages full of pigeons awaiting buyers, plus almost as many shoe shops and pavement hawkers as Talaat Harb. Behind the Cicurel department store, expropriated from its Jewish owner in 1957, is a vintage Cairene restaurant, El Haty.
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