On Cairo's Mohammed Ali Street, the heart of Arabic music, the music is fading away Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press Mon, February 4, 2013 at 5:21 PM UTC ...

It is a street that leads, after a little under 3km, to the Cairo Citadel. A walk from one end of the street to the other was once along the “music alley” of Cairo. But it is so no longer.

The remarkable historic residence was built by Prince Muhammad Ali Tawfik in the early 1900s. The palace uniquely exhibits Egypt's modern history through a unique blend of Ottoman, Persian and ...

In 1883, The First Stock Exchange for futures mercantiles was established in Alexandria. In 1899, During the Reign of Khedive Abbas II, The Stock Exchange moved to a new building at Muhammad Ali ...

“When I die, there will be no more music. No one is learning it.” The street, named after the founder of modern Egypt, was built in the 1860s as part of a new downtown that was to modernize Cairo.

Midan Al-Opera, next to Midan Al-Ataba, is one of the entry points to Cairo’s once-legendary downtown avenue of music and entertainment Mohamed Ali Street. Near the grey concrete Garage Al-Opera ...

CAIRO — During its heyday, it was famed as the lively and romantic heart of Arabic music – a Cairo street modeled after Paris’ boulevards, home to musicians, belly-danc… ...

Mohammed Ali Street was the connector between old and new Cairo, modeled after Paris' famous Rivoli street. Over the next century, it became entertainment central, home to the musicians, dancers ...