Cities talk, smile, frown, wail and rejoice, but their language can be only heard by those who care to listen. A city’s architecture and art, planning and design, streets and traffic, houses and ...
From sailing the Nile to discovering necropolises, things to do in Cairo are a portal into a past filled with extraordinary ...
Billed as smart city in the desert, boasting greenery and luxury housing, the government is set to relocate to the as-yet-unnamed city in 2019. But will anyone else move in? Billboards promising ...
The book was just published by Dar El-Maraya for this year’s Cairo International Book Fair. The perception that the residents of Cairo hold of their city is often quite influenced by the images they ...
Nick Mariano The Southern Feb 15, 2015 Feb 15, 2015 Updated Oct 6, 2015 CAIRO – This city, nearly 200 years old, is trying to start over. To what degree it can – still haunted by perceptions of the ...
An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link As a city of more than 20 million people, Cairo is the most populous city in the Middle East and the second most populous in Africa. It feels like ...
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile. Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble of ...
CAIROCAIRO — The cane chairs and umbrella still stand in the courtyard of Hussein Omar’s family mausoleum, where his grandmother came every morning for 19 years after her daughter — his mother — died.
Cairo’s City of the Dead, a vast cemetery that has been in use for more than a millennium, is being destroyed to clear space for new highways. Authorities have already razed hundreds of tombs and ...
For at least eight generations, Hussein Omar’s family have been buried in Cairo’s City of the Dead, or al-Qarafa, a historic necropolis where mausoleums for Egypt’s prominent politicians, poets, ...