Long history. Armenians have a long history in Egypt that dates back to the time of the Fatimid dynasty in the 11th century. Over the centuries, the Armenian community has made significant ...

Egyptian author and sociolinguist Reem Bassiouney recently won the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for Literature for her book Al Halwani: The Fatimid Trilogy. Bassiouney teaches sociolinguistics at the ...

The Dawoodi Bohra community, which originates in India, has been renovating and maintaining Egypt's Fatimid mosques since their arrival in the 1970s. Egypt honors India Bohras for preserving country's ...

Named after Egypt’s first Fatimid caliph in the 10th century, the street is lined with palaces, mosques, and monuments of Fatimid, Ayyubid, Mamluk, and Ottoman rulers.