Arm yourself with inside knowledge of the city and you should be fine. Cairo's Metro system is by far the ... or written in Arabic and no route maps exist. One-way tickets cost roughly 2 Egyptian ...

Africa’s oldest underground transport system has been moving millions of people across Cairo for nearly four decades.

We connected with Elgazzar to learn how she sifted through 1,000 years of history to capture the rich and storied history of Cairo.