In the past two years, the locations of several thousand graves in Historic Cairo, a Unesco World Heritage Site, have been razed. They include some in the famous City of the Dead. The Egyptian ...

Authorities are also building new cities and neighbourhoods to rehouse those living in at-risk areas. With real estate at a premium in big cities like Cairo and the Mediterranean city of ...

To find living space among the dead ... Cairo 2050 envisions relaunching Cairo as a "global city" through a number of urban planning projects. The current demolitions for the construction of ...

These are the big questions behind a controversial project that might lead to the destruction of Cairo’s necropolis, also known as the City of the Dead. Plus, can adding streets transform slums?

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Cairo is a place like no other — timeless, rife with history, teeming with people, noisy ...

Simcik Arese acknowledges Cairo is overcrowded ... but with a difference that you’re living in a new city, a smart sustainable green city,” he says. “Our role is to give a quality of ...

She pulls her book off the coffee table in her living room; it took her years ... famed Egyptian architect Zaki Hawas, once said Cairo is a glamorous city, it only needs a face wash.

In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage City, Magada Bamy’s hands move so ... city’s outskirts and began collecting waste to earn a living. In the 1960s, the government relocated them to ...