Zamalek
Zamalek is a qism within the West District in the Western Area of Cairo, Egypt. It is an affluent district on a man-made island which is geologically a part of the west bank of the Nile River, with the bahr al-a'ma cut during the second half of the 19th Century to separate it from the west bank proper.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 16,500 residents
- Description: urban district in Cairo, Egypt
- Also known as: “Az Zamalik”, “Az Zamālik”, “El Gezîra”, “El-Zamâlik”, “Ez Zamālik”, “Gezîret el Zamâlik”, and “Zamâlik”
Places of Interest
Highlights include El-Sawy Cultural Wheel and All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo.
El-Sawy Cultural Wheel
Arts center
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Sawy Culture Wheel is a cultural center on Gezira Island in the Zamalek district on central Cairo, Egypt. Named after its founder and owner, Abdelmoniem El-Sawy, it is considered one of the most important cultural venues in Egypt and receives more than 20,000 visitors each month.
All Saints’ Cathedral, Cairo
Church
Photo: Chrischorlton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
All Saints' Cathedral, Cairo was consecrated in 1988 and is the home of the Episcopal/Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Museum of Islamic Ceramics
Museum
The Prince Amr Ibrahim Palace is a historical building in Cairo's Zamalek island, which is used as the Egypt's first ceramics museum, the Museum of Islamic Ceramics and as an art center.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cairo and Gezira.
Cairo
Photo: Mario modesto, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cairo is the capital of Egypt and, with a total population of Greater Cairo metropolitan area in excess of 16 million people, one of the largest cities in both Africa and the Middle East.
Gezira
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gezira is a district of modern Cairo that occupies the southern portion of the main island in the Nile within Cairo itself; in fact, gezira means "island" in Arabic.
Boulaq
Suburb
Photo: iyasser .com, CC BY 2.0.
Boulaq, is a district of Cairo, in Egypt. It neighbours Downtown Cairo, Azbakeya, and the River Nile.
Zamalek
- Category: shiyakha
- Location: Giza Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Zamalek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الزمالك”
- Catalan: “Zamalek”
- Dutch: “Zamalek”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الزمالك”
- Esperanto: “Zamalek”
- French: “Zamalek”
- Galician: “Zamalek”
- German: “Zamalek”
- German: “Zamālik”
- Hebrew: “זמאלכ”
- Hebrew: “זמאלק”
- Irish: “Zamalek”
- Italian: “Zamalek”
- Japanese: “ザマーレク”
- Japanese: “ザマーレク地区”
- Persian: “زمالک”
- Polish: “Az-Zamalik”
- Portuguese: “Cairo/Gezira”
- Russian: “Замалек”
- Spanish: “Zamalek”
- Swahili: “Zamalek”
- Swedish: “Zamalek”
- Urdu: “زمالک”
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