# COMIC: Temps are predicted to hit 106 in Egypt this week. How do people stay cool?

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/comic-temps-are-predicted-to-hit-106-in-egypt-this-week-how-do-people-stay-cool/
- Published: 2026-07-25T12:05:34+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-25T13:09:07+00:00
- Original publisher: NPR (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.npr.org/2026/07/25/g-s1-135194/summer-heat-egypt-cairo-air-conditioning
- Topics: Art, Culture, Politics

## Key points

- Cairo faces forecast temperatures of up to 41°C.
- The comic explores everyday ways Egyptians cope with heat.
- Air conditioning is more common than in the 1990s.

## Summary

NPR’s comic examines how people in Cairo cope with punishing summer heat as forecasts indicate temperatures could reach 106°F (41°C). It matters because the piece frames extreme heat as an increasingly everyday challenge in Egypt, where access to air conditioning has expanded but is not universal.

The author, Malaka Gharib, recounts speaking with her father in Cairo when temperatures were already around 39°C (102°F). Drawing on childhood summers spent there in the 1990s, she contrasts a time when air conditioning was less common with today’s hotter conditions and asks how Egyptians are managing.

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