The new map is part of a comprehensive plan update being prepared in partnership with Five Rule Rural Planning. The plan will guide the village board’s land-use decisions during the next 10 years.

When it comes to safety, public protests are much less common than they were following the 2011 Egyptian revolution. For general travel safety, you should ensure that someone at home knows your ...

The title of my lecture today “Mapping Cairo” consciously evokes the Arab historiographical genre of khitat that persisted well into the nineteenth century and was especially developed in Egypt.

All these imminent and actual changes and transformations of the urban experience in Cairo lie at the very heart of the literary atlas project and have driven me, like the historians of the khitat, to ...