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  • Islamic Cairo: Aqsunqur mosque (AD 1347), also known as Blue Mosque for the beautiful decorated blue tiles imported from Damascus.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Allah's name graved in the stone.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Aqsunqur mosque (AD 1347), also known as Blue Mosque for the beautiful decorated blue tiles imported from Damascus.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Barquq mosque.
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  • Overview of Islamic Cairo.
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  • Islamic Cairo, City of Dead, Qaitbey mosque ( AD1474) is one of the most beautiful exemoles of Mameluke architecture, with exquisite dome and refined interiors.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Sunset with the skylines of Hassan and Al Rifa'i mosques.
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  • Islamic Cairo: hands of Fatima, traditional religious images  on a car.
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  • Islamic Cairo, a small model of mosque suspended in a street.
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  • Islamic Cairo: masharabia,  the typical window of old mansions.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Sunset with the skylines of Hassan and Al Rifa'i mosques.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The ancient Aleppo Gate, near here stood the first Islamic university.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al-Hassan and Rifai mosques from the Citadel.
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  • Portaraits of some martyrs odf Islamic revolution.
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  • The Citadel, the old Ommayade Palace.
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  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. A waiter preparing shesha (water pipes). Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Harran, mentioned in the Bible because Abraham lived here, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited spots on the earth. The traditional beehive houses.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffee house (ahwa), a popular meeting place where chess and domino players can chat smoking sheesha, the traditional water pipe. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The owner of El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El-Horea traditional coffee house (ahwa), attended by chess players and students of nearby American University of Cairo. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Coffee house near al Huseini mosque and Khan el-Khalili bazaar, the biggest of Middle East. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611154.jpg
  • Umm Khaltoum traditional coffe house (ahwa), attended mainly from fans of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum, whose pictures and memorabilia decorate the walls. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. A waiter preparing shesha (water pipes). Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611136.jpg
  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • El Shems, a traditional tea and coffee house (ahwa) with his incredible kitsch furnishing. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
    em2611111.jpg
  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Seller of animals stuffed with straw. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. A waiter with a picture of famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • The famous tea and coffee house (ahwa) Al-Fischawi, in the hearth of one of largest Middle East bazaars, Khan el Khalili. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • Bur Dubai, Grand Mosque built in 1990s maintain the style of the original Grand Mosque built in 1960.
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  • il Cairo "europeo"
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  • Al-Shataranj coffe house (ahwa), a popular place for chess and domino players. Cairo’s ahwa (the traditional coffeehouse) are for Cairo what the pub is to London or caffè to Rome. Once the ahwa was the main place for entairnement, a animated place where Cairo’s men socialised playing chess, backgammon or domino, reading newspapers or watching TV, drinking Turkish coffee and shai (tea) with mint or smoking a sheesha, the tradional waterpipe. Some ahwa are meeting places for people loving chess or remembering famous Egyptian singer Oum Kalthoum. Today Cairo is changed and everybody is just too busy to drink coffee in a ahwa, so western style coffee shops are much more than traditional ahwa.
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  • View from the Citadel.
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  • Islamic Cairo, Bab Zuweila, the older gates of Islamic city.
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  • Islamic Cairo, Bab Zuweila, the older gates of Islamic city.
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  • Islamic Cairo, Bab Zuweila, the older gates of Islamic city, view from Khayamiyyah suq.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al Ahzar mosque the oldest university in the world and one of the first mosques, built in  AD 970. Students from all Islamic world come here.
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  • Islamic Cairo, Bab Zuweila, the older gates of Islamic city, view from Khayamiyyah suq.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al Ahzar mosque the oldest university in the world and one of the first mosques, built in  AD 970. Students from all Islamic world come here.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al Ahzar mosque the oldest university in the world and one of the first mosques, built in  AD 970. Students from all Islamic world come here.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al Ahzar mosque the oldest university in the world and one of the first mosques, built in  AD 970. Students from all Islamic world come here.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Al Ahzar mosque the oldest university in the world and one of the first mosques, built in  AD 970. Students from all Islamic world come here.
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Tanta, mosque dedicated to  Saiyid Ahmed el-Bedawi, a Moroccan sufi. Tanta, the largest city in the delta, is a important centre of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, with the most important Egyptian moulid, pilgrimage.
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Tanta, the great mosque dedicated to  Saiyid Ahmed el-Bedawi, pilgrim praying near the tomb of this Moroccan sufi. Tanta, the largest city in the delta, is a important centre of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, with the most important Egyptian moulid, pilgrimage.
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  • Tanta, mosque dedicated to  Saiyid Ahmed el-Bedawi, a Moroccan sufi. Tanta, the largest city in the delta, is a important centre of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism, with the most important Egyptian moulid, pilgrimage.
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  • Islamic Cairo, the old beautiful restored Caravanserail of Wikala al-Ghouri. Sufi dervisches whirling of Al-Tannoura Egyptian Heritage Dance Troupe
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  • Fustat, southern Cairo. The imposing structure of Amr Ibn al-As mosque, the older builded in Islamic Egypt (AD 642).
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  • Holy Shrine of Imam Khomeini. The mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is one the grandest architectural endeavours of the Islamic Republic. Built on an enormous scale the Holy Shrine also contains the tombs of Khomeini's wife, second son and several other important political figures.
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  • Islamic Cairo. The beautiful Mameluke architecture of Barquq mausoleum (AD 1411) a inside The City of the Dead or Northern Cemetery, a vaste Mameluke necropolis inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people, both dead and alive.
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  • Mevlana Museum. Its fluted dome of turquoise tiles is one of Turkey's most splendid architectures. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Mevlana Museum. Its fluted dome of turquoise tiles is one of Turkey's most splendid architectures. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Mevlana Museum. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Mevlana Museum. Its fluted dome of turquoise tiles is one of Turkey's most splendid architectures. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Mevlana Museum. Its fluted dome of turquoise tiles is one of Turkey's most splendid architectures. The former lodge of the whirling dervishes is a holy place visited every year by more than a 1.5 million people. Mevlana, "Our Guide", born in 1207 in Afghanistan, was one of the world's great mystic philosophers, among the most beloved and respected in the Islamic world.
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  • Islamic Cairo.  Shop of minaret cusp for mosques in sharia Muizz al Din Allah near Khan al-Khalili suq, the most popular of Cairo.
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  • Islamic Cairo.  Shop of minaret cusp for mosques in sharia Muizz al Din Allah near Khan al-Khalili suq, the most popular of Cairo.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Sabil (public fountain and school) in Sharia al-Muizz suq (popular market) .
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  • Islamic Cairo. Sabil (public fountain and school) in Sharia al-Muizz suq (popular market) .
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  • Islamic Cairo. the streets near Zuqaq al-Midaq alley, the title of the most famous novel of Nobel Prize writer Naguib Mahfouz: "Midaq Alley".
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  • Islamic Cairo: Bayt el-Suhaymi, a superb merchant house built in 16th and 17th centuries. Recently beautiful restored.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Bayt el-Suhaymi, a superb merchant house built in 16th and 17th centuries. Recently beautiful restored.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Bayt el-Suhaymi, a superb merchant house built in 16th and 17th centuries. Recently beautiful restored.
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  • Islamic Cairo: Mohammed Alì mosque, known also as Alabaster mosque.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Al-Hassan mosque, built between AD1356 and 1363 during the time of Mameluke rule. The interior is devoid of decoration to make easier for worshippers to concentrate on prayers.
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  • Islamic Cairo. Ibn Tulum mosque, one of the oldest of Cairo (AD 876-879) inspired to old Samarra mosque (Iraq).
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