On Friday 7 December 2018, in the maq‘ad of Sultan Qaitbey, the Maghrabi Foundation, the leading private foundation providing eye care in Egypt, offered free eye examinations to more than 150 local inhabitants of … Read more

Each of the “Sultan’s Fairs” offered various events and attractions, but the 5th fair held in the Qaitbey area of the ‘City of the Dead’ on 20 and 21 October 2018 was particularly diverse. … Read more

Flying kites is a popular pastime among the children in the ‘City of the Dead’, just like in many other neighbourhoods of Cairo. On 20 October 2018, as part of its EU-funded project in … Read more

On 27 September 2018, the Ambassador of the European Union in Egypt H.E. Ivan Surkoš planted a symbolic tree in the Qaitbey area of the ‘City of the Dead’ in Cairo, marking #ClimateWeekEgypt , … Read more

A huge-scale cleaning operation has begun as part of ARCHiNOS EU-funded project in the Sultan Qaitbey area of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ in the lot once occupied by the Sultan’s palace. The only … Read more

The “City of the Dead” in Cairo is dotted with scores of domes over mediaeval tombs, but the mausoleum of Amir Mankalibugha from the mid-14th century is different and almost unique with its three … Read more