Documenting the architectural heritage of the Cairo district of Heliopolis may be the only way to save the neighbourhood for future generations “If all the images and sounds that I have saved in my ...
Editor’s note: This piece was originally written in 2005 with the Egyptian Business History Research Center at the American University in Cairo. “A metro that moves with electricity, smoothly, no ...
Contemporary Heliopolis is late Belgian entrepreneur and industrialist Edouard Empain’s magnificent project. He decided, at the beginning of the 20th century, to build a city-garden in the middle of ...
When construction workers in Cairo’s suburbs struck a limestone block buried deep under the street, no one expected it to rewrite Egypt’s solar history. What began as a city-side project near ...
Archaeologists have uncovered a number of broken statues of ancient Egyptian royalty at a temple near Cairo. These include Pharaoh Ramesses II, who was the most powerful and celebrated ruler of Egypt ...
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Documenting the architectural heritage of the Cairo district of Heliopolis may be the only way to save the neighbourhood for future generations “If all the images and sounds that I have saved in my ...