Coffee, Community, and a Bit of Dancing: Inside Cairo’s Morning Parties

Coffee, Community, and a Bit of Dancing: Inside Cairo’s Morning Parties

Every Friday morning, while much of Cairo is still easing into the weekend, a new kind of crowd is gathering in coffee shops around the city,  swapping sleepy starts for house music, cold brew, and an early dose of dancing. It is  early afternoon, the sun is out, people are holding iced matchas, and someone has already broken a sweat from dancing in gym shorts next to someone in a hoodie. The DJ is spinning mellow house, but it is not a post-rav…