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

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 ...

Egypt is busy building a new – as yet unnamed – capital, designed to be the country's new administrative hub and home to more than 6.5 million residents. With urbanization well above the global ...

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 ...

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 ...