In December, he accompanied an Awqaf cleric to preach at a Brotherhood-run mosque, the al-Azizi b’Illah, in an old Cairo district. Islamists mobbed the cleric, shouting “traitor” and raised their ...

CAIRO, EGYPT—Ahram Online reports that a copper ornament stolen from the fifteenth-century Al-Kady Abdel-Baset mosque in 2014 has been recovered and returned to the mosque’s main door. Police tracked ...

CAIRO — Developers unveiled the restoration of a 650-year-old mosque in Cairo’s old city, part of an effort to revitalize the impoverished district and boost tourism to the country’s treasure trove of ...

For most of their lives, children from historic Cairo's Al-Khalifa district only saw the mausoleums, mosques and madrasa schools that pepper their neighbourhood from outside heavy bronze doors. In one ...

The restoration and development of Al-Sayeda Nafissa Mosque, one of the most important Islamic shrines in Egypt, are part of the Egyptian state’s plan to build places of worship in general and its ...

Explore Cairo’s pyramids, bazaars, Nile moments and hidden cultural gems in this complete things to do guide to Egypt’s fascinating capital.