In the morning of 19 October 2012 Muhammad Mahmud al-Shami, one of the longest and most involved ARCHiNOS collaborators, tragically died in a car accident. Muhammad brought to our team much more than his … Read more

Agnieszka Dobrowolska and Jaroslaw Dobrowolski of ARCHiNOS have just returned from South Africa, where they were invited to present the World heritage Site of Historic Cairo at the UNESCO conference “Living with World Heritage … Read more

The mysterious firebird Phoenix rising from the ashes of its funeral pyre in the Greek mythology actually originates from the Ancient Egyptian sacred bird Benu venerated in the temple of On, within present-day Cairo. … Read more

The Muslim holy month of Ramadan is not only about religious observance. Throughout the Islamic world, it is an occasion for celebration and rejoicing. The iftar meal, when the fast is broken after sunset, … Read more

The Sugar Street, immortalized by the Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfuz in his novel of the same title, first saw our work in 1995 (see Sabil-Kuttab of Nafisa al-Bayda in the Preserving the Past … Read more

If our book encourages readers to visit the sabil-kuttab of Sultan Mustafa III and gain an appreciation of how so many diverse influences shaped its gracious architecture, it will have served its purpose – … Read more