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Where The City Lives

Neighbourhoods

TODO — what each part of Cairo is like to walk around, and who lives there.

2 places
Zamalek, Cairomust see
Gezira Island

Zamalek

The leafy half of an island in the Nile, full of embassies, galleries, jacaranda trees and the city's only quiet streets.

Downtown Cairo, Cairomust see
Wust el-Balad

Downtown Cairo

Khedive Ismail's Paris on the Nile, built in twenty years, neglected for eighty, and slowly being taken seriously again.