How would you like to live Egypt?
Writers, books, manuscripts and literary memory. Places and routes for literature, to help you shape your day.
3 places · 1 route
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A whole day, with stops close to each other.
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A suggested route · Music
For lovers of the golden age: from the home of the Prince of Poets Ahmed Shawki, to Umm Kulthum’s museum in Manial, the Arab Music Institute and Naguib Mahfouz’s world near al-Azhar, ending with a Tanoura night at Wikalat al-Ghouri.
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A writer's life beside his literary neighbourhoods.
Personal objects, documents and photographs from Naguib Mahfouz's life inside the Abu al-Dhahab complex near Al-Azhar.
Museum · Al-Azhar, Cairo Under review
The Prince of Poets at home by the Nile.
Karmet Ibn Hani, Ahmed Shawki’s Nile-side home, is now a small museum of manuscripts, objects and photographs inside the poet’s own residence.
Museum · Dokki, Giza Under review
Egypt’s memory on paper.
The Dar al-Kutub Museum at Bab al-Khalq presents manuscripts, Qurans, maps and calligraphy inside one of Egypt’s key institutions of written memory.
Museum · Bab al-Khalq, Cairo Under reviewTalk to us
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