Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is trying to turn Cairo into a modern city, like Dubai. He's also building a whole new city in the middle of the desert near Cairo to house his government as ...

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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 ...

A study cited by Forbes website, and conducted by The Eco Experts company, has named Cairo “the most polluted city on Earth”. The study compares levels of pollution in 48 cities scattered across 24 ...

Taxis, rubbish and street dance parties: Mohamed Elshahed of Cairobserver navigates us beyond the sensory overload of the Egyptian capital I was born in Alexandria, another city I love, but I’ve ...

Almost 20 million people live in the Cairo metropolitan area, and housing is tight, even in the suburbs. In a neighborhood known as al-Arafa, residents have moved into a necropolis dating back to 600 ...

Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City documents life in the Egyptian capital over 10 years, but authorities have refused him a permit to show it Ask a Cairo resident to describe the most ...