Nezar AlSayyad

Preamble Reading and Writing Cairo

12. Escaping the Present, Consuming the Past

4. Al-Qahira: A Fatimid Palatial Town

2. From Ancient Egypt to the Coptic Enclave

Figures and Credits

11. The Arab Republic and the City of Nasser

1. Memphis: The First Cairo

7. Governing from the Tower: The Burji Mamluks

5. Fortress Cairo: From Salah al-Din to the Pearl Tree

8. A Provincial Capital under Ottoman Rule