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The whole city's evening walk: grilled corn, salted lupins, anglers on the parapet.
AlexandriaEastern Harbour
The walk Cairenes actually take after dark: Qasr el-Nil bridge on foot, its lions, a glass of tea.
CairoCorniche el-Nil
The fanous market, a few weeks a year: cut tin, coloured glass, and a street that stays up.
CairoSayyida Zeinab
The temple stands floodlit gold at the roadside, and people sit out on the Corniche until late.
LuxorCorniche
Black water, moored feluccas, and headlights sliding along the parapet.
AswanCorniche
A vast room with bare walls where tea and beer have been served at the same tables for decades.
CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown
A cultural centre under a bridge, where young Cairo goes to gigs without alcohol.
CairoZamalek
Zar and Nubian music nights, in a small Downtown room.
CairoDowntown
Cairo's arthouse cinema, in a historic Downtown auditorium.
The national folk troupes — tanoura, Upper Egyptian dances, Nubian songs.
CairoAgouza
A Downtown rooftop that serves at any hour, including when everything else is shut.
An Art Nouveau tavern serving beer and prawns for a century.
AlexandriaCity centre, Alexandria
Alexandria's sailors' bar, walls covered in stickers and badges from all over the world.
The city's last Greek and Italian bars, within three streets of each other.
Campfires, acoustic music and cushions by the water: night in Dahab.
SinaiAssalah, Dahab
Drums, songs and dancing in the village houses, after dinner.
AswanGharb Soheil, Aswan
Screenings on rooftops and in gardens, from June to September.
CairoCairo and the coast
Egypt's largest Sufi gathering: a week of sleepless nights in Tanta.
The Delta and the north coastTanta
The street of instrument makers and wedding musicians, and its waiting cafés.
CairoMohamed Ali street, Cairo
