A Islamic Cairo is the name commonly given to the core of medieval Cairo, a part of the city remarkably different from the modern downtown district and the suburbs to the west. As Cairo, the most populous city of Africa expanded the area of Islamic Cairo failed to keep up with modernization. This pictures story depicts the daily life at the heart of the traditional Muslim community in Cairo.

A labourer works amid the remains of a dilapidated building


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