This is a bookbinders with elegant, great-value products covered in wonderful marbled paper - wastepaper bins, magazine/newspaper boxes, photograph albums and notebooks, tissue boxes. A refined shop, nowhere near as expensive as it looks. The magazine/paper tidies (I had two) are just the best things I have bought on my travels anywhere.

31, El-Sheikh Mohamed Abdou St
(at the side of Al-Azhar Mosque)

www.abdelzaherbinding.com

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Sultan Hassan Mosque is an amazing piece of Mamluk architecture and a must for anybody visiting Cairo. Bab al-Shariah is a place I visited with my friend's family. Native Egyptians live and work there amid the hustle and bustle and there are all kinds of shops with merchandise at affordable prices.

Sultan Hasan Mosque is near the citadel. Bab al-Shariah is near the Al-Azhar and Al-Hussein mosques

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Walk into Lehnert and Landrock, a little book shop close to the Greek Club, and in the back you will find a small room filled with late 19th century, early 20th century era black-and-white pictures of scenes in Egypt and across North Africa taken by a couple Europeans of the name of the book shop. Great place for souvenirs.

Lehnert and Landrock is on the western side of Sherif Street close to the intersection with July 26 street.

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Definitely check out the mosque and university of Al Azhar. Al Azhar is the oldest Islamic university of the Islamic world, and a beautiful building.

The market of Khan Khalili is great to visit, but closed certain days, so try and find out when. It's got lots of different things; be sure not to get cornered by sales people. If you wander far beyond the main strip, you'll find a local Cairene food market and its fascinating to walk through it, really lots of fun.

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Best bookshop for English-language books in Cairo. They have loads of material including academic books. When you've finished browsing pop into Maison Thomas nearby for a great sandwich.

159, 26 July St, Zamalek

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The biggest shopping mall in the Middle-East, it has nearly everything you want, best of Egyptian manufacturers and the international ones

Madinet Nasr (Nasr city) , just tell the taxi driver City stars

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Best Egyptian cotton. For cotton clothes, try Mobaco.

248 Sudan Street, Mohaneessine, Guiza; Tel: 347 37 91; www.mobaco.com/

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