About 45 kilometres east of Cairo, in a stretch of desert that held nothing but flat, arid gravel and sand only a decade ago, ...

Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is trying to turn Cairo into a modern city, like Dubai. He's also building a whole new city in the middle of the desert near Cairo to house his government as ...

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On a weekday afternoon in early May, Mohammed Adel boarded the monorail at Musheer Tantawi station and watched Cairo’s cityscape scroll by. The 48-year-old sales manager had boarded a train on the ...

Cities often outgrow the meanings of their names. Centuries pass, dynasties rise and fall, neighbourhoods spread far beyond ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt is preparing to spend billions doubling the size of a lavish new capital it is building in the desert 45 km (28 miles) east of Cairo, where the first residents are trickling in ...