This year, familiar spaces serve as mediators of connections & conversations, becoming boundless, nurturing communities and  melding venues, their histories & the people they bring together – Now in its 11th edition, Spend the ...

Ever wondered how houses were built in the past? Register for your children in Brick by Brick playdate, and join us for a unique architectural experience in al-Khalifa district! Children will explore the architecture of al-Khalifa ...

Khalifa Mini Camp is an intensive week-long program, designed for children aged 7 to 13 years old. The camp focuses on learning through experiencing life in one of the oldest neighborhoods of Historic Cairo. Activities include tours in the ...

Did you know that Sultan Hassan considered halting the construction of his own mosque only for it to eventually become one of the most beautiful Islamic buildings? It is renowned as the Pyramid of Islamic Architecture, for its grandeur and ...

The camp's main focus will be experiencing daily life in one of the most historic areas in Cairo. Each day will begin with a tour of a historic site or a walk in the streets of al-Khalifa area. Following artistic and scientific ...

Are you familiar with a neighbourhood in Cairo that has been designated by the Royal Society in London as one of their noteworthy communities? Or an aristocratic neighbourhood from the Mamluk era? or the bloody events that took place in ...

A training Course on "Integrated Solutions for Groundwater problems in Historic Settings" within the framework of the Athar Lina Climate and Heritage Project - Erth, funded by the Cultural Protection Fund of the British Council and ...

Are you familiar with Sheikh Suleiman Al-Kritli and his tales? Experience the rich heritage of Bayt al-Kritliyya on our guided tour, where we will uncover its intriguing past. Moreover, we will discover how English officer Gayer Anderson ...

We invite you to spend a day with your family at al-Imam al-Shafi'i Visitors Centre Date & Time: Saturday 18th November at 1.00 pm. Come visit the first-ever visitors' centre in a shrine in Historic Cairo. Learn about al-Imam ...

Join us in our newest tour, al-Khalifa Pottery Tour and Workshop! In this tour, we will learn about pottery-making, one of the most important heritage crafts. We will stroll through the Bab al-Wazir area, visit the Blue Mosque, ...

Join us in our upcoming tour and our new tour program, "Massar with Maissa," in al-Khalifa's new tour season, with the guidance of our long-last partner, tour guide, and Egyptology consultant Maissa Mustafa. In the tour, we will discuss ...

We are excited to announce that al-Khalifa Tours is back with a diverse program of tours and workshops. Mark your calendars for the second and fourth Saturdays of every month. Our season kicks off with Woven Tales tour, where we will ...

We are pleased to announce the opening of the al-Imam al-Shafi’i Visitors’ Centre! The al-Imam al-Shafi’i Visitors’ Centre project was inaugurated by his excellency Ahmed Issa, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, and Ambassador ...

We’re excited to announce our participation in Turathna Exhibition this year!  Turathna is the largest annual exhibition for handicrafts and heritage products in Egypt. Visit us to explore and purchase our line of products inspired ...

The Prince Claus Fund Mobile Lab will be held in Cairo, Egypt, from 16th to 19th of September 2023, where a dynamic program of public events will take place in collaboration with Tahayyuz and African Architecture Matters. Program: 16 ...

We’re excited to announce al-Khalifa Mini Camp for kids!  The camp focuses on learning through experiencing life in one of the oldest neighborhoods of Historic Cairo. Each day will begin with a tour of a historic site or a walk in ...

This training course lies within the framework of the Athar Lina Groundwater Research Project (funded by the Cultural Emergency Response), and the Athar Lina Heritage and Climate Project – Erth (funded by the British Council’s Cultural ...

Paid internship opportunity for ERTH: Athar Lina Climate and Heritage Project ERTH- A project focused on integrated solutions for climate change impact on heritage buildings through conservation, training and community participation ...

Since the era of the pyramids, Egyptians distinguished themselves by their love for architecture… Architecture has been more than just stone and mortar, but an entire language that speaks for all aspects of civilization, it speaks for ...

Come join us as we celebrate the 10th Edition of our annual event, “Spend the Day in al-Khalifa (SDK 10)! “This year our celebration will be special, as we get up close and personal, and celebrate al-Khalifa alongside its people. This ...

A tour from the heart of the Ahmad ibn Tulun Mosque, which he built along with a palace, extensive gardens, and an entire city, but of which only the mosque survives. During the tour we will get to know the history of the mosque and its ...

Imagine you are a bird, flying high above al-Khalifa neighborhood, and looking down on the streets and buildings. Do you like what you see? Now let’s swoop down to al-Khalifa street and take a stroll through its alleys and find out what ...

We invite you to spend a special day surrounded by the tales and myths of al-Khalifa district! As you walk through al-Khalifa neighbourhood, you will be learning about its vibrant heritage and draw inspiration to design your own khiyamiyya ...

Ready to join us on our next walking-tour with the Citadel as your morning view? And better yet, join a calligraphy workshop where you will learn the basics of the art of calligraphy! Arabic calligraphy is linked to many aspects of our ...

Did you hear the legend about the construction of the Mosque of Ibn Tulun? It is said that the mosque was built with thousands of thousands of dinars! Would you like to discover the secrets of the mosque and its amazing legends? Do you ...

A tour from the heart of the Ahmad ibn Tulun Mosque, which he built along with a palace, extensive gardens, and an entire city, but of which only the mosque survives. During the tour we will get to know the history of the mosque and its ...

Al-Imam al-Shafi`i Cemetery, also known as al-Qarafa al-Sughra, is the city of the dead and the living, and a blessed site in the heart of Cairo. In the cemetery, we will visit the shrines of women and men from Ahl al-Bayt who came seeking ...

To celebrate 10 years of Athar Lina, we’re hosting our first Seminar for Heritage Education and Industries. This networking event brings together multiple entities working in and outside of Historic Cairo. With the objective of expanding ...

This webinar aims to introduce attendees to our most recent publication titled, "Athar Lina's Toolkit for Groundwater Solutions in Historic Settings” The Athar Lina Groundwater Toolkit is a set of guidelines for dealing with problems of ...

It’s time for the 9th annual SDK! Spend the Day in al-Khalifa is a weekend-long event happening in Historic Cairo between al-Khalifa Street, al-Hattaba and al-Imam al-Shafi'i. As we visit the multiple community venues Athar Lina has been ...

Al-Imam al-Shafi'i wrote about his longing to visit Egypt, the place which he eventually lived for only four years before he passed away in 820 CE. It was as if he knew he was going to be buried in Egypt, the place where he fell in love ...

Join us for a day of heritage-loving fun! This tour is a chance for you and your little ones to get familiar with the history of al-Imam al-Shafi’i, the importance of heritage conservation and the heritage excavation process in a light ...

As the graphic witnesses of the cultural and architectural heritage of Egypt, Khiyamiyya works have somehow stopped representing Egyptian society as it stands now. Contemporary artists are attempting to reinvent the ancient art of ...

Audiovisual Performance (Live): Shadow of the Wall In a storytelling and live drawing performance in the historic area of Al-Khalifa, Shadow of the Wall weaves together layers of legend, history, and the pulse of the streets in the heart ...

Tales at the Foot of the Citadel (Home of Wood Cutters, Craftsmen, and Artisans) Only walking distance from the New Gate (al-Bab al-Jadid) of the Citadel (built by Mohamed Ali instead of the traditional Ayyubid stairwell gate), lies the ...

Since the era of the Pyramids, Egyptians distinguished themselves by their love for architecture... Architecture has been more than just stone and mortar, but an entire language that speaks for all aspects of civilization, it speaks for ...

Tour of al-Sayyida Nafisa Cemetery In understanding Egyptian history, one discovers that cemeteries were never solely a place for the burial of the dead. In fact, they were and still are places of prayer, visitation and in some cases ...

Stucco, or carved gypsum, is a versatile material that lends itself to a variety of design approaches. The carved arches, cornices, inscription friezes of Egypt’s Islamic architecture are testament to the range of possibilities offered ...

Between Two Gates: A tour through the Squares and Markets of al-Khalifa The charm of old cities is more often than not found in the harmonic conjunction of its mobile heritage and the vigorous daily lives and activities of the ...

Bambah Qadin, once a princess, a widow, a grieving mother, then a water woman. She built Sabil Umm ‘Abbas in memory of her son, ‘Abbas Hilmi I, who was killed by two of his slaves in 1854. Clara Brown, Aunt Clara as she was known, ...

Megawra | Built Environment Collective is happy to announce an upcoming lecture and exhibition titled, ‘Memory of a Place: On Suq al-Jum'a’ on Saturday 29th May 2021, from 7 - 8:30 PM. The lecture will be given by Hussam Magdy at ...

You are cordially invited to the final CPHC online lecture titled, ‘Modern Public Housing Projects within Historic Cairo: Zaynhum Housing as a Case Study,’ taking place on Sunday 23rd May 2021 from 7 pm to 8:15 pm.   About ...

In the context of developing the creative, cognitive, and life skills of craftspersons and designers in the fields of heritage industries, Athar Lina Heritage Design Thinking School Project (ALHDTS) is announcing its new workshop for ...

You are cordially invited to the second CPHC online lecture titled, ‘The Participatory Process of al-Hattaba Development Project’ taking place on Monday 26th April 2021 from 9 pm to 10:15 pm.   About Lecture 2: The Participatory ...

The urban fabric of Historic Cairo is registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, but some parts of the Old City suffer from deteriorating quality of life and living conditions. With the rigidity and inflexibility of the laws governing new ...

You are cordially invited to the first CPHC online lecture titled, ‘Conservation and Management Plan for Al-Khalifa Street Area’ taking place on Wednesday 24th March 2021 from 7 pm to 8:30 pm. This lecture is not only the first of a ...

Athar Lina Initiative is celebrating the heritage of al-Khalifa neighbourhood for the eighth year in a row, through its tourism promotion event "Spend the Day in Khalifa" organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and ...

In the context of developing the creative, cognitive, and life skills of craftspersons and designers in the fields of heritage industries, Athar Lina Heritage Design Thinking School Project (ALHDTS) is announcing its new workshop for ...

You are invited to the closing webinar for Athar Lina Initiative’s Citizen Participation in Historic Cairo Project. In this 2-hour webinar, we will present the scope of the project focusing on its outputs, mainly the publications and ...

Megawra|BEC has the pleasure to invite you to join a webinar with Yasmeen Lari, the winner of the Jane Drew Prize for Architecture in 2020. Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first female architect and the founder of Heritage Foundation of ...

How does a place inspire us? How can it trigger our imagination? Using El-Khalifa and the layers of stories, events, anecdotes, people, buildings that have - over the years - contributed to making it such a unique neighbourhood, the ...

Megawra – BEC is excited to invite you all to a webinar to introduce and discuss the main concepts of the “Glossary of the Street” workshop. In this webinar, three invited speakers will present how they prepared glossaries for other ...

Imagine IC is a heritage organization based in the Amsterdam Southeast borough. For the public Imagine IC is a mix between an archive, a museum, and a debate center. They collect, exhibit and discuss present-day (city)life. Most people ...

For the seventh year in a row, Athar Lina Initiative is celebrating the heritage of al-Khalifa neighborhood through the tourism promotion event "Spend your Day in Khalifa" which begins on the 6th of February and extends over two weekends ...

A storytelling performance by Chirine el-Ansary through some of the southern cemetery's most iconic monuments. The tour weaves the history of the neighborhood with stories of its people and the encounters of the conservation team with its ...

Athar Lina initiative invites you to a heritage awareness day in al-Hattaba, north of the Citadel, celebrating the start of the conservation work in al-Shurafa Mausoleum. Throughout the day, visitors will be introduced to the history ...

Historic mosques are religious living cultural heritage resources. Their conservation is a challenge throughout the Islamic World. It requires achieving a delicate balance of various values and stakeholders. They are often torn between two ...

A three-hour masterclass where participants will be exposed to the art of storytelling and its practices. The Egyptian storyteller Chirine El-Ansary will start with a short performance inspired by the history of Historic Cairo and the ...

An open discussion where Cairopolitan's team will walk us through their design and production stages of their unique products. The session will focus on how to conceptualize a product from narrative to final design and ...

Presentation and Discussion on the History of Khiyamiyyah and its Role in Egyptian Society Lecture and presentation on the art of Khiyamiyyah (Tent-making), where we review the history of the craft extending to the Fatimid era, and the ...

The Dutch show "EGG-tion Hero" by Maas theater en dans - the Netherlands Friday 15 March 2019 at 2:00 – 2:30 pm AGE: 3+ VENUE: Megawra el mostawsaf DURATION: 30 mins COMPANY: Maas theater en dans - The Netherlands About the ...

The Athar Lina initiative invites you for Leather Workshop for beginners. The workshop will be managed by Sandra Fruebing. Sandra is a German Product Designer collaborated for six weeks with the skilled Ababda Bedouin craftswomen in the ...

For the sixth year in a row, the Athar Lina Initiative will celebrate the heritage of the al-Khalifa neighborhood through the annual tourism promotion event, Spend the Day in al-Khalifa, in collaboration with the Ministry of Antiquities ...

The Way of the Heart What is the relation between Yoga and Sufism as ways of the heart? What do they tell us about the secrets of the heart? Get to understand more about all this and connect with your heart through Yoga and ...

Mahatat in Cairo (3 & 8th of October) Mahatat for contemporary art mission is make art accessible in the public space. So Mahatat will make a tour of four governates (in addition to Cairo) as (Origin of a Tale), which will be ...

With a length that exceeds 25,000 km, the road network connects sporadic districts of Cairo City, which transportation system has the second insufficiency index value in 2015 worldwide. Besides, the pedestrian mobility as a mode of ...

The day includes two consecutive events: 12:00 – 14:15 Closing event of al-Khalifa Summer Camp 14:30 – 17:00 City Walk | al-Hattaba About City Walk | al-Hattaba Description The tour aims to present the area and history of ...

Al-Khalifa’s historic urban fabric was designed according to a human scale that encourages interaction in the street as an open space. It supports walking as a mode of transportation. However, the introduction of vehicles as well as ...

Ramadan Kareem! This year Megawra celebrates Ramadan in a new way. This year we will host a charity flea market to display things we no longer use so others may make use of them. These item may be clothes that no longer fit us, tools ...

Ramadan Mubarak to all :) Remember how we used to celebrate Ramadan by making our own decorations and hanging them in the street and in our homes? Athar Lina Initiative invites you to a family workshop to make Ramadan decorations and ...

Through Walls: A Heritage Dialogue celebrates women empowerment and cultural heritage by exploring the connections between Chicano and Egyptian cultures through the creation of two murals, one in Cairo (April 28 - May 9) and one in Los ...

What is Yoga? What is Sufism? What is the link between them both? And what is the energy of places mean? Why does doing Yoga outdoor or at spiritual places give us a stronger energy boost? Get to understand more about all this and ...

Her-itage is a day full of events dedicated to learning about and celebrating women’s heritage through a variety of activities. It is part of the Through Walls project. The Through Walls project is part of the Communities Connecting ...

/// Tri-City Photo Marathon 2018 /// 21 April 2018 Cairo, Copenhagen and Ramallah The Photo Marathon invites everyone interested in photography to creatively engage with 10 themes over the course of 10 hours. It is an interactive day ...

Bureau LADA (Landscape, Architecture, Design, Art) is studio for experimental architecture based in Amsterdam. The lecture focuses on the act of seeing, observing, and engaging actors in a particular project. The lecture presents this ...

The tour aims to provide an introduction to the history of the different markets and squares in one of the most important areas of historic Cairo. It begins in al-Sayyida Nafisa Square and sets off through al-Qabr al-Tawil Street, which ...

What do you think about architecture education and practice? Do you feel that studying architecture has left you wanting to know more? Do you feel that you did not learn what you wanted or needed? Are the programs too out-of-date? What ...

Cairo’s Architectural heritage wealth is priceless containing The Tulunids, The Fatimid, The Ayyubid, Mamluk and Ottoman as well as modern, most of which can be visited yet some the monuments needs conservation to preserve it and here ...

Spend the Day in Khalifa 5 - Nas wa Turath events For the fifth consecutive year, Athar Lina initiative celebrates al-Khalifa's heritage through the اheritage promotion event (Spend the Day in Khalifa). The two day event will host ...

Talk and Discussion: Blue Architecture :Hydro-Logical Design for Urban Watersheds Brook Muller, University of Oregon *The Second public lecture of the International School "Khalifa Heritage and Environment Park" within the framework of ...

Talk and Discussion: Running on the Edge; Design from India Aniket Bhagwat, Landscape Designer, India Aniket Bhagwat, the firm's senior partner and lead designer shares works from India and his studio, and argues for a way of ...

Guided tour of the Khalifa street’s heritage. A tailored tour offered by Athar Lina taking you through the back streets al-Khalifa Street while weaving the history of the street as recounted in the history books with the myths told by ...

On building urban ecological resilience Josh Cerra, Cornell University *The fourth public lecture of the Conservation School on salt and groundwater problems in historic settings within the framework of Athar Lina's Groundwater ...

As part of Athar Lina Ground Water Project, the seminar focuses on integrated solutions to the problem of ground water on the urban level, including methods for dewatering, treatment and reusing water in line with the social and economic ...

Trenchless Technology Approach To Infrastructure - Amr El Sheikh &Mohammed El Sheikh (Bonian) The third public lecture of the Conservation School on salt and groundwater problems in historic settings within the framework of Athar ...

The second public lecture of the Conservation School on salt and groundwater problems in historic settings within the framework of Athar Lina's Groundwater Reseach Project. An overview of the techniques implemented or studied in water ...

The first public lecture of the Conservation School on salt and groundwater problems in historic settings within the framework of Athar Lina's Groundwater Reseach Project. During the past few decades, the Egyptian government has ...

Guided tour of the Khalifa street’s heritage. A tailored tour offered by Athar Lina taking you through the back streets al-Khalifa Street while weaving the history of the street as recounted in the history books with the myths told by ...

The Ministry of Antiquities and the Athar Lina initiative are organizing a daily conservation school for the period of six weeks. It specializes in studying groundwater and salt damage to search for solutions for groundwater problems in ...

Sketching Cairo: Heliopolis, Khalifa and Downtown Exhibition and lecture: Cairo Urban Sketchers with Cluster, Heliopolis Heritage and Athar Lina. In 2016, Cairo Urban Sketchers collaborated with three initiatives in Cairo to represent ...

Spend the Day in Khalifa 4 – within NaswaTurath, Egypt Heritage Weekend October 14-15 Organised by Athar Lina, Spend the Day in Khalifa 4, is the fourth iteration of Athar Lina’s annual event to promote the wonderful heritage of ...

Study water flow in al-Khalifa area using urban metabolism information system tools developed for the urbinsight Project, represented in Cairo by the Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture. ...

Athar Lina Initiative (with the technical support from Built Environment Collective - Megawra) and in partnership with the Ministry of Antiquities , the al-Khalifa residents and the Museum of Gayer Anderson are organising the Khalifa ...

A workshop in Darb al-Husr open space, the designers and the locals will work together to stimulate and visualize dreams of the area's future. The workshop organized by Cairo Urban Sketchers and Built Environment Collective – ...

Continuation to the field visits to the historical sites surrounding Darb al-Husr area, the second tour will be at Shaykhoun Mosque and Sabil Kuttab Qaitbay. The last walk before the workshop of urban developing sahet Darb al ...

Field visit to the historical sites surrounding Darb al-Husr area, in collaboration with Cairo Urban Sketchers and Built Environment Collective – Megawra as the first tour will be at Ahmed Ibn Tulun Mosque, Gayer-Anderson Museum then ...

The primary aim of Spend the Day in Khalifa 3 is the inauguration of the conservation projects of the mid 13th century dome of Shajar al-Durr (funded by the American Research Centre in Egypt with additional funding from the ...