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Sultan’s Fair Once More

Sultan Qaitbey’s area within the “City of the Dead” in Cairo saw another Sultan’s Fair organised by ARCHiNOS on 18 March 2016. A photographic exhibition “Mothers and Daughters” celebrated the upcoming Mother’s Day in … Read more

More Artists Pay a Visit to the Sultan

The cosy small square overlooked by the monumental façade of Sultan Qaitbey’s reception hall in Cairo’s “City of the Dead” is becoming an outdoors art display. As the facades around the square are renovated … Read more

ARCHiNOS Brings the Past Back to Life

Architects have to be skilled in presenting comprehensible three-dimensional representations of buildings and spaces that do not physically exist but are just conceived as designs for future construction. Dr Tarek Swelim, a renowned historian … Read more

A Glimpse of a Lost City

A ceremony held on 26 October 2015 at the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities celebrated (with some delay) the completion of an open-air museum in Kom Aushim in Fayum, the site of ancient Karanis. The … Read more

Sultan’s Fair in the “City of the Dead”

Hand-blown glass, silver-inlaid and engraved brass, furniture inlaid with mother-of pearl, textiles, basketry, and more: local craftspeople displayed and sold their wares in front of the magnificent mosque of Sultan Qaitbey in the “City … Read more