Sufi orders have chapters all over Egypt, which organise festivals on saints days, hold chanting events, and engage in community work. Several chapters offer free-of-charge funerary service and some organise accommodation for visitors.
Sufi sheikhs, (...)
Pottery was first produced in the Stone Age. If early manifestations were rather crude, as civilisation became more sophisticated pottery became not only more elegant but widespread. Indeed, one cannot imagine ancient trade around the Middle East (...)
More than a hundred years ago, when archaeologist Gaston Maspero excavated a tomb belonging to the 21st Dynasty of Egypt, he found a tent made of leather. It was one of the finest examples from this period of time. But even back then, the art of (...)
There is more than one coffeehouse in Cairo named after the legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kalthoum, but none can match the history of the four-floor establishment on Orabi Street, not far from Tawfiqia Square in downtown.
As I step inside, I am (...)