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About al-Madaq

This website presents the history of Cairo through various texts, maps, photographs, and artworks. It relies on digital technologies to make historical maps and photographs available to the public and to rediscover them as sources for historical writing. Al-Madaq contains three main components. First, an archive that features a collection of some of Cairo’s most important historical maps, from the French Expedition map of 1809 to a map from 1920, that are geotagged onto satellite images. Second, a series of articles that presents the author’s doctoral research on the history of modern Cairo, particularly during the British colonial period, which will be published gradually over the course of this and the coming year. Third, artworks and texts by collaborating artists and writers.

Al-Madaq contains an archive of Cairo’s historical maps, beginning from the French Expedition map of 1809 and ending with a map from 1920—comprising 13 layers of high-resolution digital maps that are geotagged onto satellite images. Some of these maps consist of one or four sheets, others of tens—and in two cases, of hundreds—of sheets that reveal a wealth of information, for instance on buildings, facilities, roads, transportation, administrative and tax boundaries, geography, land use—and even land titles—as well as other information that is necessary for understanding everyday life and urban change over the course of an entire century.

Panorama

By Shehab Fakhry Ismail | 

This is the first in a series of articles about Cairo. In this series opener, we will tour the residential margins of the city as they stood during the time of British occupation. Beginning at the top of the hills of Moqattam and travelling down to Bab al-Shaariya, we will explore the historical geography of Cairo and find out about the factors that shaped it during that era.