About 45 kilometres east of Cairo, in a stretch of desert that held nothing but flat, arid gravel and sand only a decade ago, ...

On a weekday afternoon in early May, Mohammed Adel boarded the monorail at Musheer Tantawi station and watched Cairo’s cityscape scroll by. The 48-year-old sales manager had boarded a train on the ...

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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 ...

For decades, Egypt has largely been promoted through images of its ancient monuments. The Pyramids of Giza, the Sphinx, and ...

Cities often outgrow the meanings of their names. Centuries pass, dynasties rise and fall, neighbourhoods spread far beyond ...

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 ...

The country’s leader aims to relieve Cairo’s crowding—and define his legacy—by transforming arid land into a gleaming showplace city. In a drive to modernize, Egypt plans to move millions of people to ...

CAIRO — 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. Near ...

Nestled in the heart of historic Cairo, a cultural centre synonymous with the Egyptian capital's art scene has been razed, the latest heritage site torn down for contentious development projects.