Egypt’s communities

The story of the Libyan diaspora spreads back over several decades. Since Muammar Qadhafi’s 1969 military coup, thousands of Libyans…

At an apartment in Maadi, Irene (not her real name) watches her friend browse through her Facebook feed. A photo…

Despite India’s glorious history, outstanding architecture exemplified by the Taj Mahal and prominent political leader Mahatma Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan has…

When Keiko’s fiancée was convincing her to move to Egypt after they married and his training contract in Japan would…

On a typical evening at the Spicy Cafe in Hurghada, camera phones snapped shots of an unlikely pair: a local…

When the late Basseem Nabki, a Christian man of Syrian descent, sold shawls and scarves in the popular quarter of…

“The idea of travelling has controlled their minds…People who travelled started building concrete houses and multi-story buildings. The youth became…

A taxi pulls up to the Shaar Hashamayim Synagogue on Adly Street in downtown Cairo. The driver has to wait…

At a time when the citizenship of a candidate’s mother disqualifies him from the presidency, it is nearly impossible to…

Foreign communities in Cairo and Alexandria in particular have helped shape the architecture, neighborhoods and communities that live there today.…