Who said it’s all work and no fun at ARCHiNOS? It is hard work and loads of fun. Frank Zappa pointed out that you cannot really dance with architecture, but you surely can enjoy … Read more

In the scorching heat of Cairo, charities offering free drinking water were much welcome. They numbered in hundreds in the Middle Ages. Less numerous were those offering similar relief to animals. The structure built … Read more

The rulers of the Kingdom of Kush for a time reigned as the 25th Dynasty over an empire that included whole Egypt. After they withdrew to their ancestral land in what is today Sudan, … Read more

Werner Mark Linz was an outstanding German-born publisher in the US and Egypt, who turned the American University in Cairo Press into the leading English-language publishing house in the Middle East. Before his death … Read more

The team of ARCHiNOS Architecture completed repairs to the roof over al-Fakahani Mosque just in time – before heavy rains hit Cairo in mid-February. This was another project where the Cultural Emergency Response programme … Read more

The Sudan National Museum in Khartum houses a huge collection of priceless objects that testify to an extremely rich, millennia-long history of this stretch of the Nile Valley, which blends varied influences of Africa, … Read more