The Cairo Governorate has started removing ‘Ezbet Abu Qarn‘, the largest shanty area within the Old Cairo neighborhood, in implementation of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s directives to remove all ...

The complex includes a mausoleum, a madrasah (Islamic school), and an old hospital, and it's a spectacular site where you can ...

Old Cairo transformed by park project By Sylvia Smith BBC, in Darb al-Ahmar, Cairo Most urban areas have one - an area that is a sort of no-man's land where no-one lives and which becomes ever more ...

In the heart of Old Cairo, where layers of history converge on narrow alleyways and centuries-old architecture, remarkable restoration efforts have been breathing new life into three cultural gems ...

Whenever I fell ill as a child, my mother would say, “Go to Rabaa!” By the time I was a teenager, I knew by heart the side streets that led from my house to the Rabaa hospital, less than a ...

2006-06-03 04:00:00 PDT Cairo-- At a school unlike any in the Middle East, 15-year-old Magdi Shenuda learns how to use a computer to track the number of plastic bottles he recycled in the past month.

The area now called Old Cairo, known as Misr EI Kadhna, is among the most important locations visited by the Holy Family where the spiritual impact of their presence is most felt still; though their ...