Addresses

Cairo's flea market: whatever the city threw out, sold again on a Friday morning.

CairoSayyida Aisha

The market of fabric by the metre, second-hand clothes and curtains: Cairo dresses here.

CairoBoulaq

The centre's biggest street market: everything is sold here, and everything is shouted.

CairoAttaba, Downtown

Downtown's food market: fruit, cheese, spices and fishmongers under a hall.

CairoBab el-Louk, Downtown

The shopping street linking Attaba to Khan el-Khalili, where Cairo buys everything.

CairoMuski, Islamic Cairo

Downtown's Arabic bookshop windows, and the second-hand stalls on the pavement.

CairoDowntown

A Friday morning market selling birds, pigeons and poultry, as it always has.

CairoSayeda Zeinab

Dozens of second-hand book stalls, a Cairo institution for a century.

CairoAzbakeya, Downtown

Egypt's largest flea market, under the aqueduct's arches.

CairoSayeda Aisha, Cairo