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MICHAEL GEBICKI Last updated 13:38, August 24 2017 Adriatic Sea coast ." title="" src="https://resources.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/l/8/0/w/t/image.related.StuffLandscapeSixteenByNine.620x349.1l80z3.png/1503538694992.jpg" class="photoborder" /> Beautiful view of Dubrovnik, an old city on the Adriatic Sea coast . "Please, please, don't send more tourists to visit Dubrovnik." This is my taxi driver speaking and we're stalled in the traffic along Obala Stjepana Radica , the main artery at the start of the journey from the port to the Old City of Dubrovnik. Two big cruise ships are berthed behind us and we're blocked in by passenger coaches carrying the ships' passengers to the Old City. The driver asks me what I'm doing here, and I tell him – travel writer on the beat – and now he's formed the impression that I am about to send yet more tourists to add to the deluge that is already besieging his city. REUTE...

Regeni was undeterred. Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends. From 12 to 14, he served as youth mayor of his hometown, Fiumicello. He prided himself on his ability to navigate different cultures, and he relished Cairo ’s unruly street life : the smoky cafes, the endless hustle, the candy- colored party boats that plied the Nile at night. He registered as a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo and found a room in Dokki, a traffic-choked neighborhood between the Pyramids and the Nile, where he shared an apartment with two young professionals : Juliane Schoki, who taught German, and Mohamed El Sayad , a lawyer at one of Cairo’s oldest law firms . Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square . Regeni soon befriended writers and artists and practi...