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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.
CairoDowntown
A Friday morning market selling birds, pigeons and poultry, as it always has.
CairoSayeda Zeinab
A cultural centre under a bridge, where young Cairo goes to gigs without alcohol.
CairoZamalek
A contemporary art centre in Old Cairo, with evening concerts and exhibitions.
CairoFustat
Zar and Nubian music nights, in a small Downtown room.
A 1900s lounge bar with leather armchairs, left exactly as it was.
A Downtown tavern where journalists, artists and regulars have met since 1969.
Downtown's live music club, in an alley behind Talaat Harb.
A basement bar in Zamalek, discreet and full of long-standing regulars.
Two hours of cruising with dinner, band and belly dance.
CairoZamalek and the Nile Corniche
A moored boat turned into several restaurants and bars, at Zamalek.
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.
A hidden courtyard terrace behind a busy street, a refuge for writers and journalists.
Screenings on rooftops and in gardens, from June to September.
CairoCairo and the coast
The new capital's great mosque, inaugurated in 2019 in the desert east of Cairo.
CairoNew Administrative Capital
The largest cathedral in the Middle East, inaugurated in 2019 facing the mosque.
Twenty towers in the desert, including Africa's tallest: a skyline out of nowhere.
The khedives' state carriages, reopened to the public after twenty years of restoration.
CairoBoulaq
