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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Critic Dina Heshmat talks about changing images of Cairo in modern and contemporary literature in an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly What has been the meaning of the city of Cairo to different people ...
Cairo has arguably grown to become one of the ugliest urban metropolises in the world. Construction gone unchecked in the absence of planning and regulations, and the lack of enforcement 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 ...
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, ...
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