Those were not just names carried by signs on small boats, floating restaurants and vessels sailing on the waters of the Nile in Cairo, but to me they represented moving signs of Nile tales about Cairo’s visitors, transit travellers and residents, as they were moments written on the crest of the waves. The names were not the only things carried by the signs, but these carried brief inspiring phrases as well. The stylish restaurants adhered to foreign names, reflecting marked class divisions, even on the surface of the Nile which has taken in all meanings and their significance