Zamalek, the Egyptian island floating placidly in the Nile River alongside the capital city of Cairo, is an old-world oasis with a decidedly contemporary air. It’s a little bit suburban—the ...

“Omar,” a 26-year-old from a neighborhood near Cairo’s international airport, was sitting at the Pottery Cafe in the city’s posh Zamalek district on Thursday, drinking coffee and lazily ...

The thousands of apartment blocks visible to the northwest, looking toward Zamalek, are made up of rocks from the ... One of the benefits of preparing an updated map of Cairo’s geology is that it ...