The Sound of Cairo

Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.21.07 | 9:21 AM ET

We’ve posted several times about the impact sounds can have on travelers. Here’s another terrific piece, Marcella Prokop’s meditation on hearing the call to prayer in Cairo, Egypt. “The call is beautiful to me,” she writes in the Christian Science Monitor. “I am moved to my core by its reassurance, its grace, and its timelessness.”