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#uyghurs

In a slightly dim side road in Nasr City, a neon-lit banner emblazoned with the words 'Foul El Seen El Azeem' (Great Beans of China) in bold green font was hard to miss. A namesake of a 2004 Egyptian comedy blockbuster starring Mohamed Henedy, this Uyghur restaurant is one of Cairo's most popular Asian eateries. Living in Xinjiang, an autonomous territory in the northwestern reaches of China bordered by Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the Uyghurs are descendants of Turkic groups that…