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Khankhan Khalili, one of the oldest markets in the Middle, a little over the age of 600 years, and the original architecture still remains on the case since the Mamluk era until now. Emigrated for a large number of traders Palestinian city of Hebron and Sknoh and now has the community of the people of Hebron are living and working trade and them attributed to Khan al-Khalili in Cairo has been called this name because of its founder, is one of the princes Mamluks and was called the Yarkas-Khalili, a city of Hebron.
If we go back by time back a lot will Itana of Arab months (Maqrizi), which says that the Khan building a large box surrounding the courtyard and is similar to the agency, including the layer bottom of shops, including the upper layers of the stores and residences, has been called by that name in relation to the origin al-Sharif (Al-Khalili), which It was great merchants in the reign of Sultan plum in 1400.
If the popular proverb says: "The man runs the place brush", the first manifold to the land of the Khan must be in a cafe Fishawy, who over the age of two hundred years, one of the oldest cafes in Cairo, was the great writer Naguib Mahfouz of the most famous pioneers in the sixties of the twentieth century.