A first stopover in Port Said

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By: Ludovic Dunod

Mid-December 2002. The Portes d'Afrique sailboat arrives in Port-Saïd, the gateway to the Suez Canal on the Mediterranean.

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For this first stage, Vladimir Cagnolari, our on-board reporter, meets old Port Saïdiens nostalgic for the city's cosmopolitan era, before Nasser. He thus learns about the history of the city and its vicissitudes.

The first guest writer on board is the Nobel Prize for Literature, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He goes down the Suez Canal on the sailboat. The landscape and this trip remind him of his family's history ...

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