Since its founding in 969 AD by the Fatimid Caliphate, Cairo has been a city shaped as much by its walls and gates as by the people who passed through them. These gates weren’t just military ...
A whirling dervish spins at a restaurant ahead of Iftar, the evening meal breaking the Ramadan fast, in front of Bab al-Futuh, one of the remaining gates of the old city of Cairo, Egypt ...