In these strange days, when all public gatherings are suspended due to the Coronavirus pandemic, we cannot hold our usual events in the Maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey cultural hub in the “City od the … Read more

The November 2019 issue of the Newsletter of the MASQ: a space for art and culture in the Maq’ad of Sultan Qaitbey has now come out. MASQ is operated by our sister not-for-profit organisation, … Read more

When the Belgian industrialist Baron Edouard Empain developed Heliopolis, which he established in 1905 as a satellite city in the desert outside Cairo, the houses of this human-made oasis took on costumes of Islamic … Read more

On Saturday, 16 November 2019 the distinguished scholar Prof István Ormos of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest gave in the Maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey a lecture about some little-known aspects of the work of … Read more

The work on restoration and adaptation by ARCHiNOS of a ground-floor section in a historic building in the upscale district of Heliopolis in Cairo has entered a new phase. After the landscaping of the … Read more

MegaCities-ShortDocs is a Citizen Film Festival that highlights, through short documentaries, inspiring local initiatives which bring effective solutions to problems encountered by megacities around the world: places that present many opportunities, but also concentrate challenges. … Read more