Cairo: histories of a city

Preamble : reading and writing Cairo

Memphis : the first Cairo

From ancient Egypt to the Coptic enclave

Fustat-Misr : the city of Arab Islam

Al-Qahira : a Fatimid palatial town

Fortress Cairo : from Salah Al-Din to the Pearl Tree

The Bahri Mamluks : the city of the slave sultans

Governing from the tower : the Burji Mamluks

A provincial capital under Ottoman rule

A changing city : from Napoleon to Muhammad Ali

Modernizing the new, medievalizing the old: the city of the Khedive

The Arab republic and the city of Nasser

Escaping the present, consuming the past.