From this chapter, readers do not gain any sense of the setting being in Cairo. Said is in Nur’s apartment “enveloped in the silence of the neighboring graves” (p.255) and “through the window shutters he looked over the cemetery, at the graves lying there quietly in the moonlight.”(p.255).Aside from these small references to the cemetery near the apartment, there are no other description of the place Said is at. Actually, there is no direct reference to Said being in Nur’s apartment, but the fact that “he awoke to find light filling the room and he saw Nur standing looking down at him” (p.257) suggests that he is at her apartment.
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