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Winston Churchill’s Egyptian Getaway: The Old Cataract Hotel

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The Old Cataract Hotel has played grand host to the likes of Churchill, Mitterrand and Agatha Christie—but in the wake of Egypt’s revolution, it’s facing a slow death on the Nile.

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