When I was there, it was the time of King Farouq, but I also came back when there was Nasser. But where I lived, they had made the balcony into another room, and it was closed in. And also, the street that had been so grand had an overpass because there were so many cars. Cars underneath and cars on top. And yes, it was a country where millions of people had come from the countryside to live in the town, and they were living everywhere, on rooftops and in the street and it was a strange feeling. And I had come as a journalist to write about how things had changed. The first time I had come as a journalist to write about how things had changed.