But the architecture of the new city is "modernist ... and middle class of Egypt were paying the price in higher taxes. Speaking to The Times, he said that it is a capital "for the military ...

Vast ceremonial spaces, a presidential palace and the largest mosque in Africa have been captured in these photographs of Egypt's New Administrative Capital, taken by Johan Blasberg. Taken earlier ...

It retained this status for almost a millennium until the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 641 AD, when a new capital was founded at Fustat ... Once you’ve had your fill of architecture and the bustle of ...

Dar Al-Maaref, one of the older publishing houses in Egypt, and Sirat Al-Qahera ... of Cairo—not to unearth anything new, nor to put forward a specific thesis on the history of the country’s ...