Located an hour north west of Cairo’s city centre, the Birqash camel market provides a glimpse of rural Egyptian life that cannot be found on the manicured streets of Maadi or under the loud din of Downtown. On Friday mornings, livestock merchants from across the region gather in Birqash to buy, sell and trade camels, …
On Sunday several hundred student protesters gathered in front of the Faculty of Science building on the Al-Azhar University campus to mark the 100 days since supporters of deposed president Mohamed Morsi were dispersed from mass sit-ins during a violent government crackdown. Students carried flags and hand signs representing the sit-in at Rabaa Al-Adaweya mosque …
Secluded from modern day cairo, Geziret El-Dahab seems to exist in a different era
Some of the sounds of Cairo do not change