There is a place covered in smells of nostalgia, where the waters sparkle in turquoise blue and glistening sunbeams slip through the days of simple pleasures. A beach passed down from generation to generation, carrying tales of midsummer dreams and plays: this is the story of Egypt’s once-glistening summer gem, Al-Agami beach. “A once-shimmering golden mirage.” Although not frequented as before, Al-Agami beach was the destination to escape from the busyness of the city. It was a summer dream, a playground for the city’s escapers, now overshadowed with urban expansion along the North Coast. “We had our house from the early 1980s, I’ve been going there ever since I was a few months old, and I grew an inexplicable attachment to Al-Agami beach. Some of my best childhood memories were carved there,” recounts 26-year old Maryam Nouhy, who works as a translator. In its heyday, Al-Agami was an escape for Egyptians in the 1950s and 1960s. It hosted an array of different people during the summer days – ambassadors of Argentina, France, Italy, and Romania, and celebrities such as Abdel Halim Hafez, Faten Hamama, and Samir Sabri also spent their…
