Cairo Guide

Shahrazad in a golden robe beneath a horseshoe arch at dusk
Cairo and the Thousand and One Nights
The Thousand and One Nights travelled from India and Persia to Baghdad, but it was in Cairo that the stories grew and were first printed in Arabic. A short history,... Read more...
The minarets of Sultan Hassan and Al-Rifa'i mosques against a pink dawn sky
How to Read the Minarets of Cairo
Cairo is called the City of a Thousand Minarets. Here is how to tell a Tulunid tower from a Mamluk one and an Ottoman pencil, from any rooftop in the... Read more...
Doves circling the Mamluk minarets and domes of Al-Muizz Street
A Walk Down Al-Muizz Street, the Heart of Old Cairo
One kilometre, a thousand years: how to walk Al-Muizz Street from Bab al-Futuh to Bab Zuwayla, and what to look up at on the way. Read more...