Ask anyone who’s visited Cairo, and they’ll tell you, “great place, love the history, adore the qahwas, hate the cars.” Cars are to Cairo what clouds are to London and bitchy waiters to Paris — ...

This week’s Forefront story “Waking the Sleeping Tiger,” by Cairo-based journalist Joseph Dana and photographer Cliff Cheney, explores how ordinary Cairenes are redefining their relationship to the ...

A 2009 map published by an Egyptian-German NGO shows a Cairo that official maps do not. Huge swathes of the city, mainly on its immediate outskirts, are denoted in a stark red color. These scarlet ...

Supported by Ford Foundation and the British Council, Cluster has recently launched the Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP), the first resource of its kind in Egypt. CUIP is a bilingual ...

Egypt has demolished thousands of graves to make way for new roads and infrastructure — Khaled DESOUKI In the decade since President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi seized power, Egypt has built dozens of ...

Residents in a Cairo neighborhood adjacent to a highway have built their own exit ramps using dirt mounds. Credit: Joseph Dana This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...

Cairo is one of the most crowded cities on Earth, and its infrastructure shows it. Cairo's near-constant traffic jams cost the city $8 billion a year. The city's Metro system is crumbling under more ...

From restored Old Cairo to the newly expanded New Cairo, this Egyptian capital is undergoing a sweeping cultural and urban ...

CAIRO: When the official inauguration of Cairo's Al-Azhar Park unfolds this weekend, it will do so in two stages. The first is a private, invitation-only affair on March 25, replete with ceremonial ...

From a cracked window, Khaled Gamal looks across a smoggy skyline of drab tenements and hanging laundry. But on this day, something is different. He watches a voting line form on his street in ...