James Aldridge is one of the greatest English writers of the 20th century who worked in a realistic direction, an author with whom the Soviet reader was very "lucky" - after all, most of Aldridge's works were not translated into Russian. "Cairo" is a story about the life of this city, about its entire history of more than a thousand years. From Cairo of the era of the pharaohs, to Cairo of the sixties. According to many experts in Egypt, James Aldridge managed to create one of the best books on the history of the ancient city.