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PHOTO GALLERY: Mother's Day gifts, past and present




Accessories being sold in the streets of downtown Cairo (Photo: Mohamed Hussein)

Mothers and daughters buying clothes in Downtown Cairo (Photo: Mohamed Hussien)

Potential Mother's Day gifts (Photo: Mohamed Hussien)

Potential Mother's Day gifts (Photo: Mohamed Hussien)

A vendor offers some possible gifts for a lucky mother (Photo: Mohamed Hussien)

Egyptians women buying household gifts for their mothers (left), while the 1950s advert on the right reads: "Buy your Mother a 'Latta' gold coco set signed by Louis XV for a reduced price of 575 piasters (Photo: Al-Ahram)

Advert from Al-Ahram daily in the 1950s inviting readers to "Buy your mother sunglasses for Mother's Day"

Readers sending greetings to their mothers in a 1950s edition of Al-Ahram daily

Al-Ahram Arabic takes a look at Egypt's Mother's Day history.

 

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