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Talaat
Harb
Street
(Arabic:
شارع
طلعت
حرب
pronounced
[ˈtˤɑlʕɑt
ˈħɑɾb])
is
a
historic
street
in
downtown
Cairo,
Egypt,
connecting
Tahrir
Square
and
Talaat
Harb
Square.
It
is
the
historic
architecture
lining
Talaat
Harb
Street
that
reminds
visitors
of
its
stylistic
and
eventful
past.
Until
its
name
change
in
1954,
this
avenue
was
named
'Soliman
Pasha
Street'
and
was
a
center
for
activity
and
social
interaction
among
Cairo's
upper
and
European
classes.
Although
a
remnant
of
its
former
'Paris
on
the
Nile'
19th
century
grace,
the
Midan
Talaat,
or
Talaat
Square,
at
the
street's
intersection
with
Qasr
el-Nil
Street
is
circled
with
buildings
having
the
strong
elegance
of
French
neoclassical
architecture
from
the
Soliman
Pasha
era,
and
were
once
the
locations
of
some
of
Cairo's
most
popular
and
successful
shops
and
services.
Despite
Nasser's
attempt
to
mask
colonial
Egypt's
history,
done
in
the
1950s
and
1960s,
the
structural
design
of
the
upper
building
facades
on
Talaat
Harb
Street
is
a
reminder
of
a
multi-colonial
past.
Various
types
of
architecture
representing
different
eras
of
Egyptian
history
are
displayed
on
the
floors
above
the
new
roughly
redesigned
yet
inviting
store
facades
on
street
level.
Most
of
these
buildings
appear
to
be
left
over
from
the
days
of
Khedive
Ismail
and
his
goal
to
create
a
new
European
inspired
quarter
in
Cairo
during
the
second
half
of
the
19th
century.
He
who
stressed
urban
planning
for
the
first
time
in
Cairo,
to
include
broad,
linear
gridded
streets,
open
spaces
and
parks,
geometric
balance
and
harmony,
and
then
modern
European
architectural
styles.[2]
Yet
the
once
grand
appearance
of
these
buildings
has
been
lost
to
the
clinging
dust,
battered
shutters
and
general
lack
of
outward
upkeep.
Interspersed
between
these
sad
structures
are
their
modern
counterparts,
which
appear
significantly
more
aged
than
the
actual
date
of
the
structure
would
suggest
due
to
their
hasty
and
incomplete
construction.
Identical
glossy
storefronts
strung
together
along
the
street
level
provide
a
degree
of
continuity
and
collectively
sacrifice
the
history
disappearing
above
them
for
an
eager
pursuit
of
western
culture
and
commerce.
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