On 18 September 2025, we were greatly honoured by a visit of H. R.H. Queen Letizia of Spain to the Sultan Qaitbey area where ARCHiNOS and its not-for-profit sister organization, the Sultan Foundation, have … Read more

This spring, the MASQ (Multicultural Artistic Spaces at Qaitbey’s), run by ARCHiNOS and its sister organization the Sultan Foundation, organized on four occasions a series of events celebrating Cairo, the City Victorious in various … Read more

Caroline Williams, a renowned American scholar in Islamic art history, an authority on Orientalist art, and the author of the best-selling book Monuments of Islamic Cairo: The Practical Guide, was visiting Egypt with her … Read more

In the spirit of communality, sharing and joy that pervades the Muslim holy month, our Ramadan event on 13 March this year was the biggest ever. It started with a huge iftar meal for … Read more

When the illustrious Sultan al-Ashraf Qaitbey died in 1496, he was buried in a mausoleum that he had built more than twenty years earlier in the “City of the Dead”. As befitted the great … Read more

The renowned scholars of Islamic art Laila Blair and Jonathan Bloom wrote in their magisterial The Art and Architecture of Islam 1250 – 1800 (Yale University Press) that the dome over sultan Qaitbey’s tomb … Read more