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PHOTO OF THE DAY February 1, 2003  

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Where Cairo, Egypt
When 1990
Photographer James L. Stanfield

"Built inside the Citadel, the former headquarters of Egypt's rulers, the Turkish-style [Muhammad Ali mosque] honors the early 19th-century leader credited with bringing the nation and Cairo out of a medieval past—and into vexing modern times."

—Text from "Cairo—Clamorous Heart of Egypt," April 1993, National Geographic magazine

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Ibn Battuta: Prince of Travelers," December 1991, National Geographic magazine)

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