An announcer from the fifties brings together an Egyptian and a Syrian in a sweet shop
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"Here Cairo from Damascus, here Egypt from Syria", a sentence that the Syrian broadcaster Abd al-Hadi Bakkar said, when the tripartite aggression's 1956 raids stopped the Egyptian radio lines ... so that the famous sentence after 65 years turned into the name of two commercial stores, one of them an Egyptian and the other of a Syrian, in the Abdeen area .
Muhammad Suleiman, a Syrian, 43, says that he "came to Egypt in 2013 and decided to settle in Egypt, married an Egyptian woman, had two sons from her, and opened a Syrian sweets shop by virtue of his profession in Syria."
He added, "5 years ago, he got acquainted with an Egyptian friend named Ahmed Yassin, 34, who used to be a café owner, so he suggested opening a joint venture with a Syrian sweets shop, so the Egyptian friend welcomed the idea and called the new project here Cairo .. here Damascus."
Suleiman narrates the details of choosing the two names by saying: “I have friends from many countries, such as Lebanon and Kuwait, and I have traveled to Lebanon, but the treatment of Egyptians is very sweet and they are all love and brotherhood, so I got married to them and I intend to live in Egypt for the rest of my life.”
In turn, Egyptian friend Ahmed Yassin, 34, said about the joint Egyptian-Syrian cooperation between him and his friend: “I was a café fatih, and he was a Syrian pastry chef. He wanted to make Syrian sweets and sell them in the café with me, and we agreed to merge the two stores with some, but in another place. We agreed on the name, and I found that he is a chef of shared Syrian pastries, and he is my friend not long ago.
Yassin stressed that the strength of the relationship between him and his Syrian friend, was the reason for his approval of the partnership with him, adding that they chose Syrian workers to manufacture sweets, and Egyptians to work in the café, pointing to the Egyptians ’love for Syrian sweets and their heavy interest in it.