Khan Al-Khalili on Al-Muizz Street is Cairo’s most famous souk (market), and has been trading rugs, lamps, gold, and jewelry for 600 years. Sergio Pitamitz, Robertharding/Alamy Spring: Day ...

A procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies passed through downtown Cairo on Saturday on their way to a new museum three miles away as part of a lavish ceremony to celebrate Egypt’s history. The ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When the Egyptian writer Alaa Al Aswany’s The Yacoubian Building was published in 2002, it almost instantly entered ...

Egypt's capital, Cairo, is now synonymous with protests and sometimes violence. Late at night, the once-bustling downtown streets are largely empty these days. People worry about getting mugged or ...

Cairo has always known how to hold history in plain sight. From minarets piercing the skyline to ancient stones whispering ...

The man whose face was featured on the Egyptian pound, the first ice cream in Egypt, and the audience’s narratives about downtown were all presented at the downtown premises of AUC this July. The ...

Egypt has signed a management and operation agreement with India’s luxury hotel brand Taj to restore and reopen Cairo’s historic Continental Hotel.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about real estate in the Middle East and North Africa. On one of the last patches of land along the Nile River in central ...