I moved to Cairo full-time this summer. There’s an unfathomable vastness to the city that’s not just physical but present in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
CAIRO - As you near Salah Salem street, in the southeast of Cairo, a walled expanse of graves stretches into the distance for several miles, below the hills of Mokattam. Within the cemetery, hundreds ...
Cairo unveils its African American Heritage Trail and Oral History Project, spotlighting the city’s pivotal Black history ...