Documenting the architectural heritage of the Cairo district of Heliopolis may be the only way to save the neighbourhood for future generations “If all the images and sounds that I have saved in my ...

Contemporary Heliopolis is late Belgian entrepreneur and industrialist Edouard Empain’s magnificent project. He decided, at the beginning of the 20th century, to build a city-garden in the middle of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Serious in intent, but melodramatic in style, the patriotic historical saga “Heliopolis” directed by Djaffar Gacem neatly uses the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a number of broken statues of ancient Egyptian royalty at a temple near Cairo. These include Pharaoh Ramesses II, who was the most powerful and celebrated ruler of Egypt ...

Algerian Djaffar Gacem, director/producer of the drama “Héliopolis,” said both French and Algerian historians have brought their perspectives to the history of colonial Algeria — and that includes the ...

More than a century ago, the land east of Cairo was little more than open desert. Then came the Belgian Baron Édouard Empain, carrying an ambitious dream: to build a modern suburb unlike anything ...

In the opening scene of James Scudamore's second novel, Heliopolis, the anti-hero Ludo - né Ludwig Aparecido dos Santo - slinks around his adoptive sister Melissa's apartment as their father, Zé ...

Djaffar Gacem's patriotic melodrama explores the background to events destined to go down in history as the Sétif and Guelma massacres. Serious in intent, but melodramatic in style, the patriotic ...