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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 ...

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 ...

It moves fast – very fast – across a metropolis rarely seen from this vantage point. Cairo's monorail, whose tracks rise about 10 meters above the ground, glides over a city of 25 million people, ...

Cairo's new monorail slices across the city skyline, running above the familiar chaos of blaring horns and ageing buses' exhaust fumes that mark rush hour below.