The title of my lecture today “Mapping Cairo” consciously evokes the Arab historiographical genre of khitat that persisted well into the nineteenth century and was especially developed in Egypt.

Mai Ghaly Elgazzar’s map Egypt Old Cairo blends the past and the present to capture the rich and storied history of Cairo. For this Behind the Map, we connected with Elgazzar to learn how she sifted ...

CAIRO — Maps and butterflies and bears, oh my! The town of Cairo and its hamlets are going to the bears this summer, along with the butterflies, as part of an outdoor public art project sponsored by ...

Overwatch has a fair share of terrific maps for players to choose from, but it’s always interesting to see what fans of the series can create in their spare time. Like, for instance, Joshua Ilorente.

2008 Map “Historic Cairo”, A3, scale 1:50000 showing in black the boundary of component 089-001 and in yellow its buffer zone. Clarification / adopted 2008 Map “Al-Fustat”, A3, scale 1:2500, ...

All these imminent and actual changes and transformations of the urban experience in Cairo lie at the very heart of the literary atlas project and have driven me, like the historians of the khitat, to ...