Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world, and the Middle East. The Greater Cairo metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world by population with over 22 million people.
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Explore Egypt’s capital with real walking tours, ancient site tours, and modern museum experiences.
Enjoy the lively streets and markets of Cairo in this high‑definition walking tour.
An immersive livestream‑style walking tour through different neighborhoods of Cairo.
Experience the Giza plateau with this in‑depth walking tour among the pyramids and the iconic sphinx.
Discover the world’s largest museum dedicated to a single civilization — all set near the Giza Plateau, with spectacular artifacts and exhibits. :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
Explore the historic Khan el‑Khalili bazaar, one of Cairo’s most famous street markets and cultural hubs.
The Pyramids of Giza — including the Great Pyramid of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure — and the Great Sphinx are among the most iconic monuments of ancient Egypt, part of the Giza Plateau just outside modern Cairo. They remain top destinations for travelers exploring Egyptian history. :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) is the world’s largest archaeological museum dedicated to a single civilization, located near the Giza Plateau. It houses vast collections of ancient artifacts, including spectacular Tutankhamun treasures, and opened officially in late 2025. :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}
Khan el‑Khalili has been a bustling market and cultural center for centuries, with spices, crafts, and traditional Egyptian street culture. It’s one of the best places in Cairo to experience local life. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}
Cairo blends ancient heritage, dynamic city life, and cultural depth — making it one of Africa’s most fascinating capitals to visit. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}
The wildfires tearing through the landscape just west of Madrid advanced more slowly overnight but remain “active and uncontrolled,” Spanish authorities said this morning. The slower pace of advance allowed firefighting teams to battle the flames, and they identified three fronts, with the most active one located in the hills just north of the San …
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Picture this: On a normal workday, you and your coworkers walk around the office with tiny recorders clipped to your clothes. The glasses on your face nearly instantly identify what you see. Your bracelet records and analyzes all your conversations. This is the future tech companies envision in the age of AI, whether consumers want …
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The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) hosted two delegations from the Bank of Ghana as part of its efforts to strengthen cooperation with African central banks and exchange expertise in data management, artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation, and cybersecurity. The first delegation visited the CBE over several days to learn about Egypt’s experience in digital […]
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Bahrain announced on Monday that it would host a joint military exercise involving the armed forces of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states, while Saudi Arabia said it had intercepted drones launched from Iraq that attempted to strike oil facilities, underscoring mounting security tensions across the region. Bahrain’s Defence Force said the “Bahrain Shield” exercise […]
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Rumours and false claims spreading across Egyptian social media and news outlets surged by 113 percent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period last year, according to a report released 15 July by the Cabinet Media Centre, as regional conflict and economic anxiety created fertile ground for viral falsehoods. The report, released by the government’s public communications and media monitoring office, shows that misinformation tied to regional developments accounted for 57.3 percent of all rumours monitored between January and June 2026, up from 21.1 percent in the first half of 2025. Officials attributed the spike largely to spillover from ongoing tensions in the Middle East, which have made Egyptians more anxious and more susceptible to unverified claims about everything from fuel supplies to their savings. The surge comes amidst a longer-term upward trend in which nationwide rumour rates had already climbed to 14.5 percent in 2025, up from 13.8 percent in 2024, with the fourth quarter alone accounting for nearly 40 percent of the year’s total misinformation. While rumours in 2025 focused largely on state development projects, the 2026 surge has been driven primarily by fearsContinue reading "Rumours in Egypt Nearly Double as Regional Turmoil Fuels Online Panic"
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‘Today is the last chance to pay,’ is the message that induced panic for Mohsen Abdelkader, a customer who had fallen behind on an EGP 30,000 (USD 591.5) loan he took from a financing application to buy household appliances. It was the moment a convenient installment plan curdled into a near threat. When he called customer service to dispute interest charges that had ballooned past the size of his original loan, an employee at the application cursed at him instead of helping. His story, reported by the pan-Arab daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, is one of dozens of Egyptians who receive threatening messages from unknown numbers. They are asked to pay their dues or face arrest, legal action, property seizure, or reputation defamation, often days after a missed payment deadline. Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority now oversees roughly 2,500 licensed consumer-finance companies serving more than 64 million customers. By the end of 2025, Egypt’s non-bank financial sector had amassed portfolios worth roughly EGP 417 billion (USD 8.2 billion), according to official statistics, with more than 9.8 million financing contracts. Meanwhile, the default interest rate for the companies remained below 3 percent. Applications letContinue reading "Users Allege Harassment by Debt Collectors in Egypt’s Consumer-Finance Sector"
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Karim Badawi, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, met with Deng Zhaojing, General Manager of China National Chemical Engineering Group (CNCEC), and the accompanying delegation to discuss accelerating several local strategic projects, especially the Soda Ash production project in New Alamein and the Red Sea National Petrochemicals Company complex in the Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone). Beside the […]
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Fahad Almuhaisin, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Rabigh Refining and Petrochemical Company (Petro Rabigh), a subsidiary of Aramco, told Asharq, Bloomberg’s Arabic news platform, in a TV interview that the company expects to complete the engineering studies this year for its largest project currently under development. The project aims to convert high-sulfur fuel oil into […]
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