Cairo News and Updates

New Hilton property in Cairo Hilton Worldwide has signed a Management Agreement with High for Touristic Projects for the new-build Hilton Heliopolis in Egypt’s capital Cairo, scheduled to open in 2014. The 485-room and 150-apartment low-rise property located in Cairo’s upmarket Heliopolis suburb adjoins an integrated shopping complex and is next to the Cairo International Airport. Hilton Heliopolis will feature five restaurants [...]

Rare storm hits Egypt Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday. In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media reports [...]

67 families in Giza evicted for new housing development project Sixty-seven families in the Warraq and Imbaba Airport area in North Giza have been evicted from their homes after the land was sold to investors to establish new housing projects. The Ministry of Housing, Utilities, and Urban Development had initially reportedly promised to evict the families only when the alternative housing units were ready. The families [...]

“Keep It Clean” Concert in Cairo Local performers will join today in a concert for the environment at the Sakkiet El Sawy Wisdom Hall at 8 pm. The Keep It Clean Concert is being organized by Clean Up Giza and www.localsoundwave.com, with artists representing a range of musical genres: Shady Ahmed (acoustic pop/rock), Amina Diab and Farida El Guertly (acoustic), Déporté (pop), [...]

King Tut DNA tests results to be published this month Image via Wikipedia Dr. Zahi Hawass will soon announce the results of a DNA study conducted on the mummy of King Tutankhamen. The tests are part of a larger ambitious program aimed at confirming the identity of the royal mummies and their familiar relations. It is believed that Tutankhamen is the son of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who [...]

Lego exhibition at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Image via Wikipedia A touring exhibition that has been traveling to museums and science centers across the globe has landed a permanent home at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square. In “Secrets of the Pharaohs”, Egypt’s ancient monuments have been rebuilt in the basement exhibition area of the museum — entirely in Lego. Scale models of some of [...]

Egyptian faces at Cairo art exhibition “Faces”, a group exhibition gathering 76 artists at the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum’s Horizon One Gallery in Giza, takes as its theme the human face, each artist giving his or her point of view in depicting Egyptian faces. Featuring some of the most important names in modern and contemporary Egyptian art, the exhibition brings together work [...]

The Nile Hotel, Cairo shuts for extensive renovations Image via Wikipedia The Nile Hotel in Cairo bade farewell to its guests and closed its doors on the first day of 2010. For the next 30 months, this celebrated hotel is undergoing an extensive physical makeover to emerge in 2012 newly re-branded as The Nile Ritz-Carlton, Cairo. Owned by Misr Hotels, a subsidiary of The Holding [...]

Guilt becomes an inspiration for art piece featured at the Tate Image via Wikipedia When Andy Holden was 12, he broke and stole a chunk of the Great Pyramid of Giza during a visit to Egypt with his father, who was there on business. The guilt kept creeping up until it it became so unbearable that Holden, now an sculptor, had to do something positive to raise awareness [...]

A tour of Islamic Cairo cemeteries Egypt’s (modern) history is packed with figures who have affected the country’s history in different ways, and perhaps the best way to remember them and their accomplishments is to visit their tombs. The Al-Ghafeer (guard) cemetery in Cairo is famous for hosting the tombs of many of Egypt’s former royal family, though these are sometimes not [...]