About Cairo, Egypt

Cairo has acted for millennia as a guardian and center for culture, art, and beauty. It is quite famous for being the capital of Egypt, and the largest metropolitan area in Africa, the Middle East, and the Arab world. The city occupies an area of about 528 square kilometers in northern Egypt, 120 km west of Gulf of Suez & Suez canal, 165 km south of the Mediterranean Sea and lies on both banks of the Nile River near the Nile delta. Cairo became known as “the city of a thousand minarets” due to the numerous mosques, castles, and churches located within it. The city is the headquarters of the government and the core of all sectors of financial and political control. Also, it holds the biggest mass media center and production of film & music in the Middle East, many culture centers, museums, artistic institutes, sports clubs, and universities. The city is most famous for containing the famous Giza Pyramids Complex that holds one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the Great Pyramid of King Khufu, the world’s oldest and biggest statue of the Sphinx, Sakkara Pyramids, and the house of mummification. Egypt is the land of civilizations, such as the Islamic, Coptic, and Roman civilizations, and it contains many ancient monuments of them.

Food and Restaurants

Egyptian cuisine makes heavy use of legumes, vegetables and fruit from Egypt's rich Nile Valley and Delta. It shares similarities with the food of the Eastern Mediterranean region, such as rice-stuffed vegetables, grape leaves, stuffed vegetables, shawerma, kebab and kofta. Examples of Egyptian dishes include ful medames, mashed fava beans; kushari, lentils and pasta; and molokhiya, bush okra stew. Pita bread, known locally as eish baladi. Egyptian food also makes heavy use of meat, such as beef, lamb, chicken, pigeon, duck, seafood….etc.

Egypt in general, and Cairo in specific, contains lots of local restauratns and international restaurant chains that serve international food--namely, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese …and many other types of international cuisine.

Some examples of Egyptian food are shown in the pictures below: