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Forty craft workshops under one roof, at posted prices.
CairoFustat, next to Coptic Cairo
The covered tentmakers' street south of Bab Zuweila: appliqué still sewn by hand.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
Cairo's camel market, early in the morning: animals, sticks and dust.
GizaBirqash
The city's big mall: international brands, supermarket and food court.
HurghadaAirport road, Hurghada
The seafront mall, next to the Hilton — smaller than Senzo, but on the Corniche.
HurghadaCorniche, Hurghada
Souvenirs, jewellery and watches at marked prices — and nobody following you down the aisles.
HurghadaHurghada
A fixed-price bazaar on the Mamsha promenade, where you can walk in without being grabbed.
HurghadaMamsha, Hurghada
A neighbourhood bookshop with a few tables, where you stay longer than planned.
CairoZamalek
An independent bookshop and publisher, with a café where people work all afternoon.
CairoMaadi
The bookshop that reopened Cairo's appetite for reading, with a café corner at the back.
An Egyptian craft shop facing the Ibn Tulun mosque, with no haggling and no pressure.
CairoIbn Tulun, Darb el-Ahmar
Crafts from rural cooperatives, at marked prices, with the workshop's name on the label.
Bookshop and crafts on the first floor of a Talaat Harb building, facing the Egyptian Museum.
CairoDowntown
Cairo's last hand bookbinding workshop, behind the al-Azhar mosque.
CairoAl-Azhar, Darb el-Ahmar
Nasr City's big mall: brands, cinemas and an indoor children's park.
CairoNasr City
The shops at the foot of the pyramids: papyrus, alabaster, statuettes — and the art of bargaining.
GizaNazlet el-Semman, Giza
Alexandria's antiques market: furniture, chandeliers and china from houses that closed.
AlexandriaAttarine, Alexandria
Alexandria's big mall, with a hypermarket and international brands.
AlexandriaCairo road, Alexandria
Vases and lamps cut from translucent stone, on the road to the tombs.
LuxorWest bank, Luxor
Some twenty ceramic workshops in a village perched above the lake.
FayoumTunis village, Lake Qarun
Siwan embroidery, Berber silver, palm baskets and oasis olive oil.
Marsa Matrouh and SiwaSiwa
Egypt's furniture capital: whole streets of cabinetmakers and wood carvers.
The Delta and the north coastDamietta
Few shops, plenty of dive gear: the bare necessities of the southern Red Sea.
Marsa Alam & the Red SeaMarsa Alam
Weekend markets where farms from Fayoum and the Delta sell direct.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, Sheikh Zayed
