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Forty craft workshops under one roof, at posted prices.
CairoFustat, next to Coptic Cairo
Cairo's flea market: whatever the city threw out, sold again on a Friday morning.
CairoSayyida Aisha
The covered tentmakers' street south of Bab Zuweila: appliqué still sewn by hand.
CairoDarb el-Ahmar
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.
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
The Khan's goldsmiths, where gold is sold by the gram and the work is charged separately.
CairoKhan el-Khalili
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.
Bedouin jewellery and Nubian silver, in a Zamalek gallery-flat.
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
New Cairo's mall, its dancing fountains and its big brands.
CairoNew Cairo / Tagamoa
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.
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
Weekend markets where farms from Fayoum and the Delta sell direct.
CairoZamalek, Maadi, Sheikh Zayed
Egypt's largest flea market, under the aqueduct's arches.
CairoSayeda Aisha, Cairo
