Cairo has just been named Africa’s most attractive city for 2025 by the French magazine Jeune Afrique. So what makes it so ...

Cairo is a bustling, noisy city of 20 million people. But for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the streets welcome another kind of sound - drums and horn. NPR's Aya Batrawy met a group performing a ...

“Can’t you hear the rhythm?” asks local musician and curator, Yara Mekawei with her ears perked toward the street below and her eyes closed. “It’s in there, amidst the sounds of the horns honking, the ...

When cities grow and change, it is easy to take stock only of what is distinctly visible: new buildings, new bridges, new roads. What fades away more gradually are the sounds that define these places ...

One of the most anticipated music festivals of the UAE, the Cairo Sound Music Festival organized by HI Wave is back to entertain the capital’s residents on 26 January with a stellar line-up boasting ...

Mozart's Requiem was performed in Cairo on two consecutive evenings, 12 and 13 May. Among the core values of music is its power to transform a metaphysical idea into sound, decoding the spirit of ...

A sound art workshop that will challenge 10 participants to collect the diverse sounds on Cairo’s streets and transform them into digital artworks will take place this month at 100copies Studio Space ...

Q My 30-year-old daughter and a woman friend are traveling to Cairo in July. Any safety concerns they should be aware of? Also, any suggestions on places to stay? She says she can get a room for $15 - ...

The streets of Cairo are busy, vibrant and noisy, but Ramadan brings another kind of flow: Religious beats from a small band. Cairo is a bustling, noisy city of 20 million people. But for the Muslim ...