Description
Al muizz street crosses the Muski 200m west of Midan el-Hussein, at a cross roads with two mosques. Heading north from here, jewellers’ shops overflowing from the Goldsmiths Bazaar soon give way to vendors of posts, basins and crescent topped finials, after whom this bit of street is popularly called Al-Nahaseen, the Coppersmiths Bazaar. In Fatimid times this bazaar was a broad avenue culminating in a great parade ground between caliphal palaces hence the name Bayn al Qasrayn (Between the Two Palaces), which is still used today although traces of the palaces are long gone. More recently, the street has given its name to the first novel of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, where it is usually translated as “Palace walk”.
