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1 week ago | 
cntraveller.com | Nada El Sawy
Cairo is on most history buffs’ bucket lists, and with the 2025 opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum, there has never been a better time to start planning that long-awaited trip to the sprawling metropolis that more than 20 million people call home. But Egypt’s capital has so much more to offer than the obvious historic sites. The city reveals itself in layers and it is up to visitors to peel them back. Here are our picks of the best things to do in Cairo. 1.
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1 month ago | 
cntravellerme.com | Nada El Sawy
Ramadan in Cairo is usually associated with getting together with family and friends to break one’s fast, before socialising and eating late into the night. However, in recent years, more creative options for iftar and suhoor have become available in Cairo, moving away from the traditional hotel buffet and instead delving deeper into the intricate layers of a Middle Eastern city that truly never sleeps.
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Dec 21, 2024 | 
cntraveller.com | Nada El Sawy
After more than a decade of delays and much anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum has opened its 12 main galleries. The caveat is that its prized King Tutankhamun collection and two King Khufu solar boats will remain under wraps until the yet-to-be-announced official opening. Nevertheless, there is plenty to see, with 15,000 artefacts spanning as far back as 700,000 BCE up until the 4th century AD.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
cntraveler.com | Nada El Sawy
After more than a decade of delays and much anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum has opened its 12 main galleries, the Grand Staircase, and the Children's Museum. The caveat is that its prized King Tutankhamun collection and two King Khufu solar boats will remain under wraps until the yet-to-be-announced official opening. Nevertheless, there is plenty to see, with 15,000 artifacts spanning as far back as 700,000 BCE, up until the 4th century AD.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Nada El Sawy
8 hours agoWhen Michelle Hensley lost her husband to cancer, she needed to figure out how to earn an income for her family. When Michelle Hensley, now founder and CEO of luxury gift basket and wrapping company Nifty Package Co., lost her husband, a pastor, to cancer in 2014, she was 50 years old and "had a …
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
cntravellerme.com | Nada El Sawy
Known for its large-scale art installations set against the wondrous backdrop of the 4,500 year-old Pyramids of Giza, the contemporary art exhibition, Forever Is Now, has opened for its fourth year. The striking juxtaposition of old and new, setting up a dialogue between past and future, reflects artists' ongoing creative fascination with the civilisation of ancient Egyptian, from gods and goddesses to solar boats, obelisks, hieroglyphics, pyramids and the afterlife.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
cntravellerme.com | Nada El Sawy
After more than a decade of delays and much anticipation, the Grand Egyptian Museum has opened its 12 main galleries. The caveat is that its prized King Tutankhamun collection and two King Khufu solar boats will remain under wraps until the yet-to-be-announced official opening. Nevertheless, there is plenty to see, with 15,000 artefacts spanning as far back as 700,000 BCE up until the 4th century AD.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
hyphenonline.com | Nada El Sawy |Weronika Strzyżyńska
A group of children sit eating their lunch on a blanket laid out on the floor of a cramped seventh-storey apartment in the concrete jungle of Nasr City, eastern Cairo. There are 13 children living here, aged between two and 17. Eight are orphans. Some climb on the beds in the living room. The younger ones ask their grandmother to help them change, the teens stare at their phones, and one girl asks her mother how to make maklouba, a rice dish.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
cntravellerme.com | Nada El Sawy
Nowhere in Zamalek is the clash of past and present more pronounced than on the main thoroughfare cutting across the Nile-encircled island. 26th of July Street – named after the day in 1956 when former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal – was once Avenue Zamalek, and then Avenue Fouad, after the sultan-turned-king who ruled Egypt from 1917 to 1936.
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May 6, 2024 | 
newlinesmag.com | Nada El Sawy
In the absence of support from the Egyptian government or international aid agencies, civil society is stepping in to assist the dispossessed On Feb. 10, Rajai and Asma Shalayel paid over $30,000 for permits to leave Gaza with their five children, fleeing into Egypt via the Rafah crossing. “We were happy to escape the war, the death, the destruction. But psychologically … it also means that you are leaving and may never come back again,” said Asma, 51, as she fought back tears.
