Pizza from Egypt

One doesn’t associate pizza with Egypt, but there are many foreign culinary influences there, the most prominent being Lebanese, Turkish, Greek, and Italian, but also Syrian, Libyan, and Indian. Years ago my brother-in-law, Omar al-Qattan, had returned from a trip to Egypt and told me that I just had to have the pizza. I was quite skeptical, but he said the best pizza in Egypt was in Alexandria. The Baraka restaurant on the Maydan Orabi in Alexandria is a small pizza and fa