Northern gates of Fatimid Cairo on Flickr – Courtesy sdhaddow’s photostream.
Category: Cairo
From garbage dump to municipal park. The impressions of Alexandria I shared in a recent…
The other day Jeff and I took a walk down al-Darb al-Aḥmar, one of the…
The Blue Mosque is the largest mosque in the Bab al-Wazir district of Cairo. Built…
by Deborah Campbell It is something of an anomaly that Darb al-Ahmar—home to hundreds of…
Five years after opening, Cairo’s Al-Azhar Park has surpassed all expectations. Built by the Aga…
Editor: Farhad Daftary, Elizabeth Fernea, Azim Nanji The history of Cairo is usually presented in…
The new decade has set off to a good start with excavations yielding valuable finds…
Excerpt: The DDC has established collaborative research and development activities with other research institutions, private…
Hadeel al Schalchi is a writer for the Associated Press, based in Cairo One of…
By Zahi Hawass The Museum of Islamic Art has been closed for restoration since 2002.…
Two lesser-known Egyptian legacies have been put on the World Monuments Fund watch list Two…
the Aga Khan Development Network was able to develop the desolate area into a beautiful…
CAIRO — Developers unveiled the restoration of a 650-year-old mosque in Cairo’s old city, part…
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