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  • An Egyptian bazaar

    Souq El-Fustat

    Off the beaten track

    Forty craft workshops under one roof, at posted prices.

    CairoFustat, next to Coptic Cairo

    4.3Ratingour own rating€€ Mid-rangeHandmade

  • The Tentmakers' Street

    Our favourite

    The covered tentmakers' street south of Bab Zuweila: appliqué still sewn by hand.

    CairoDarb el-Ahmar

    €€ Mid-rangeHandmade
  • A bookshop aisle between two wooden shelves packed with books.

    Sufi — bookshop and café

    A neighbourhood bookshop with a few tables, where you stay longer than planned.

    CairoZamalek

    €€ Mid-rangeBest in the morning
  • A cappuccino on a wooden table, next to an open book.

    Kotob Khan

    An independent bookshop and publisher, with a café where people work all afternoon.

    CairoMaadi

    €€ Mid-rangeBest in the morning
  • A wall of shelves filled with books, standing row upon row.

    Diwan

    The bookshop that reopened Cairo's appetite for reading, with a café corner at the back.

    CairoZamalek

    €€ Mid-rangeFamily-friendly
  • Hand-blown glass perfume bottles, twisted with colour, set on a glass shelf.

    Khan Misr Touloun

    An Egyptian craft shop facing the Ibn Tulun mosque, with no haggling and no pressure.

    CairoIbn Tulun, Darb el-Ahmar

    €€ Mid-rangeHandmade
  • Coiled baskets with conical lids, in coloured geometric patterns.

    Fair Trade Egypt

    Crafts from rural cooperatives, at marked prices, with the workshop's name on the label.

    CairoZamalek

    €€ Mid-rangeHandmade
  • A crowded bookshop, books piled on the tables and up to the shelves at the back.

    Oum El Dounia

    Bookshop and crafts on the first floor of a Talaat Harb building, facing the Egyptian Museum.

    CairoDowntown

    €€ Mid-rangeHandmade
  • Rows of leather-bound books, raised bands and gilded titles.

    Abd El Zaher, bookbinders

    Off the beaten track

    Cairo's last hand bookbinding workshop, behind the al-Azhar mosque.

    CairoAl-Azhar, Darb el-Ahmar

    €€ Mid-rangeHandmade

  • City Stars

    Nasr City's big mall: brands, cinemas and an indoor children's park.

    CairoNasr City

    €€ Mid-rangeFamily-friendly
  • Vegetables sorted into wooden crates, under the awning

    The farmers' markets

    Weekend markets where farms from Fayoum and the Delta sell direct.

    CairoZamalek, Maadi, Sheikh Zayed

    €€ Mid-rangeWhere locals go