Tara was the name given to a villa in Gezira Island, Cairo, made famous by its inhabitants during World War II. The group of Special Operations Executive agents who lived there, together with Countess Zofia (Sophie) Tarnowska, turned the villa into a centre of high spirited living.First found in 1943 by Captain W. Stanley Moss, a British officer in the Special Operations Executive, it was a spacious villa, with a great ballroom with parquet floors, which four or five people might share.