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|  City of the Sun Under Destruction
Heliopolis has long been known for its garden charm and well-coordinated architecture. Now, just five years after the suburb’s centennial, investor interest and real estate prices have picked up and the villas are coming down
Heliopolis residents used to have a certain pride in their City of the Sun. They took pride in the harmony of Korba, the Baron Palace, the typical Heliopolis architecture, and in those quiet little areas with two story-high villas, small fences and beautiful gardens. A walk through my old neighborhood by the old palace was far from being a walk down memory lane. Only five years ago, as Baron Edouard Louis Joseph Empain’s planned suburb celebrated its centennial, our block was all villas, with the exception of two seven-story buildings. There were readily available parking spots, the street was wide enough to accommodate kids on bicycles, and it was back when each villa’s garage accommodated all of the residents’ cars.
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Nadine El Sayed
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A Living Legend |
The DNA Test | For nearly seven decades, 'Felfel' has been the face of Cafe Riche
Cairo in 1943 was a busy place. The Second World War was raging and out at the Mena House, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, UK Prime Minister Winst
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Lamia Hassan
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Read more | He abandoned a business career and then founded two companies. Now graphic designer Ahmed Hassanein’s artistic passion is up against the wall — literally.
Until his mid-twenties, the economics major was strictly business, only showing his art to friends. After graduating from the American University in C
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Nadine El Sayed
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 | Music With a Cause
With several successful concerts, two music videos, one album release, and one album in the making, Maher Zain is out to change the face of Islam
By May El Khishen
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 | A Drop of Lebanon
Château Musar’s fine wines flow from a troubled past
By Edward Lewis
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 | Overplaying Egyptomania
Egypt’s pavilion at Shanghai’s Expo 2010 misses the mark of modernity
By Osama Diab
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