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“برجولا “.. مشروع ومساحة فنية للأسرة تضاف لمساحات القاهرة بحديقة الطفل في العجوزة

“برجولا “.. مشروع ومساحة فنية للأسرة تضاف لمساحات القاهرة.. الجمعة

D-CAF Launches Pergola Arts Theatre With Weekend Program

“بالصور.. انطلاق مشروع “برجولا” بحديقة الطفل بالعجوزة ضمن فعاليات مهرجان “دي-كاف

“حضور جماهيري كبير بانطلاق مشروع “برجولات” ضمن فاعليات “دي-كاف

“انطلاق مشروع “برجولا” بحديقة الطفل ضمن فعاليات مهرجان “دي-كاف

إطلاق مشروع برجولا بحديقة الطفل بالعجوزة ضمن مهرجان دي-كاف لتعزيز حضور الفن في الفضاء العام

The Pergola Theater Brings Back Egypt’s Music Kiosks in Public Parks

Adapting to heat — Cairo researchers seek grassroots answers

Cairo’s Alternative Art Scene. Van Schaik, M. (2025, July). Cairo’s Alternative Art Scene (Caïro’s alternatieve Kustscene). Metropolis M, 94–95.

Between Renewal and Loss – Cairo’s Alternative Art Scene

Cultural Cooperation Egypt – Netherlands 2025-2028

Egyptian Carbon Center – (سيارة الرعاية المجتمعية) الحلقة الأولي من الموسم الثاني مع م/هناء جاد

Het Financieele Dagblad (FD) – At the World Urban Forum, much attention is paid to climate change in more sustainable world cities.

El Tashira – أهم معالم التراث السويسري في القاهرة

Cairo Scene – How Egypt’s Blue Tricycle Was Transformed Into a Community Care Car

Mada Masr – النيل في مزاد الجيش

Wealth Inequality Initiative – Measuring Results for Lasting Impact – The CLUSTER case

Scoop Empire – What Will Green Cities In The Arab World Look Like? A Conversation with CLUSTER

UK in Egypt – Facebook

Almasry Alyoum – افتتاح مشروع على طول الخط

Nabd – افتتاح مشروع على طول الخط

Egypt 2030 – افتتاح مشروع على طول الخط

Bwabtk – بالصور ..معرض تراث المنصورة يواصل استقبال زواره

Shorouk News – مقهى أندريا وحكايات جزيرة الورد

Shorouk News – بعد انتشار صورها في شوارع الدنمارك.. المصرية هاجر البلتاجي لـ الشروق_ مجهودي ظهر للنور

Al Ahram Gate – افتتاح معرض تراث مدينة المنصورة بعنوان «تراث المنصورة متعدد الثقافات

Al Ahram Gate – مقهى أندريا.. وسحر لقاء الشرق والغرب فى المنصورة

Mansoura Today – بالصور تواصل فعاليات معرض تراث المنصورة متعدد الثقافات بكافيتريا اندريا

Akhbar Al Adab – معرض لتراث المنصورة متعدد الثقافات

Al-Ahram Weekly – An architect inspired by community: Abdelhalim Ibrahim Abdelhalim (1941-2021)

Ahram Hebdo – Un lieu de lecture-plaisir

Masr360 – عشوائية التخصيص في المدن الجديدة.. حلم النعيم الذي تحول إلى كابوس

Street.Art.United.States – Creativity in Action Project In Cairo, Egypt

Mada Masr – عين القاهرة لغز«عجلة» التطوير التي تهدد الزمالك

Madamasr – Mugamma Revisited: Reimagining The Building and The Square

Cityscapes – From the Inside Out

Progress – CLUSTER’s Creative Initiatives in Downtown Cairo: An Economic Impact

This is Africa – African Crossroads 2019 kicks off with panel on sustainability

Design Indaba – Egyptian comic book artists are writing their way out of censorship

Medium: Inner City – Omar Nagati on Renegotiating Downtown Cairo Through Design

Al-Ahram Weekly – Cairo Heritage Back on Track

Al-Ahram Weekly – Chronicle of A Downtown Walk

Towards The Human City – Initiative 64: CLUSTER, Cairo – Promoting A Sustainable Urban Environment and A More Diverse and Accessible Public Space

Lines Hub – “Urban Thinkers Campus” takes place at TUB El Gouna

British Council – Where Strangers Meet: From Multiple Publics to Just Public: Tactical Art and Design Interventions In Post-Revolution Cairene Public Space 

Al-Ahram Hebdo – Omar Nagati: Il nous faut de la diplomatie urbaine

The Architectural Review – Cairo’s Downtown: Omar Nagati on Renegotiating Cairo Through Design

Design Indaba – Omar Nagati on Renegotiating Cairo Through Design

The Middle East Institute – Egypt’s Emerging Alternative Film Scene

ARTFORUM: Scene & Hero: Downtown Express

Raseef 22 – مدن إبداعية” : مشروع” لـ “وسط البلد” في القاهرة”

Raseef 22 – Creative Cities: Mapping an Alternative Downtown Cairo

Mantiqti – إعادة صياغة وسط البلد” الاثنين بالجامعة الأمريكية”

Mantiqti – الأسطح.. إمكانات هائلة قرب سماء القاهرة الخديوية

Refunc – Pallet Temple

[bracket] – THE IMAGE OF THE SQUARE Redefining Citizenship by Design

The Friday Times – Lahore’s Own Biennale – in Context

Invest Gate – Oases in The Dust: Investing in Cairo’s Green Spaces

Mada Masr – In Conversation: ‘German-Ness’ in Architectural Representation at Goethe’s New Cairo Headquarters

Al-Ahram – 5 Gouvernorats , 1 Association

Dezeen – Designers and Diplomats Must Work More Closely together

World-Architects – Book Review: Housing Cairo

Welad Elbalad – “كلستر” و”كايرو أيربان” تستكشفان العالم الموازي في “وسط البلد”

Almasry Alyoum – !٦ طرق مختلفة للتعرف على قلب المدينة بلا رتوش

Almasry Alyoum – جولات وسط البلد: إعادة اكتشاف خبايا القاهرة الخديوية

Almasry Alyoum – أسطح وسط البلد: مساحات غير مكتشفة وإمكانيات هائلة

Almasry Alyoum – ممر«كوداك».. متنزه في قلب وسط البلد

Mada Masr – What Happens to The Knowledge Produced? on Egypt at This Year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

Mada Masr – Finding Bureaucracy A New Home: Plans to Relocate The Mugamma Add to The State’s Reimagination of Downtown Cairo

Mada Masr – Five Critical Days in The Life of 10 Nabarawy Street

Mada Masr – Committee Issues Final Decision: townhouse Building to Be Restored

Mada Masr – Update: townhouse Building Demolition Postponed

Almasry Alyoum – عمر نجاتى: «كوداك» كان ملهماً

Qantara.De – Urban Counter-Revolution in Cairo

Wamda – The startups mapping Cairo’s in between spaces

Ford Foundation – Just Cities Are Built On Collaboration

Mada Masr – Big Ups, Big Downs in This Year’s A-Z of Arts Phenomena in Egypt

Cairobserver – CLUSTER Re-Frames Downtown Cairo’s Creative Landscape

Urban Narratives – CLUSTER Cairo Mapping Initiative

Mada Masr – From Mahfouz to Mohamed Khan: On Two of CLUSTER’s Downtown tours

Architectural Record – Symposium Deliberates The Future of Downtown Cairo

Ahram Online – Creative Cities Symposium: Negotiating Downtown Cairo

Mada Masr – Downtown Lost or Reclaimed?

Mada Masr – The Changing Face of Downtown

Mada Masr – Downtown as Laboratory: Q&A On Cairo’s Creative Cities Conference

Community Times – Bleak to Green: The Kodak Passageway

Middle East Institute – Changing Cairo’s Spaces From The Bottom Up

Urbanafrica.Net – Cairo’s Street Vendors and The Contestation of Public Space

The Guardian – Cairo Street Traders Squeezed Out in Push to Make City ‘Revolution Free’

Netudgaven – Demokratiet Spirer Bag Kairos Grå Facade

Urbanafrica.Net – Reimagining Cairo Through Its Passageways

Business Monthly Magazine – Full Circle officials Have Promised for Years to Reinvigorate Cairo’s Historic-But-Decaying Downtown, Where Once-Grand Beaux Arts Buildings Stand Half Empty, Covered With Grime, Overlooking Gridlocked Midans, June 2015 Issue

The Guardian – Pollution, Traffic, Stray Dogs: The Hardiness of Cairo’s Long-Distance Runners

Sustainable Cities Collective – Lessons from Cairo: How Small-Scale Urban Initiatives Can Improve A City.

Mantiqty Wasat El-Balad – Interview with Omar Nagati

Cluster, 2015. ممرات وسط البلد: رؤية للإحياء والتنمية, Cairobserver, 3rd Issue, Pp. 26 – 27

Mada Masr – Downtown In-Betweens Engage in Urban Development Dialogue

Mantiqty Wasat El-Balad – الممرات – وسط البلد التي لا نعرفها

Egypt today – The Cluster Effect

Middle East Research And Information Project, November 2014 – An Interview With Mohamed Elshahed

The Guardian – Why The Battle for Control of Downtown Cairo Is A Fight for The Future of Egypt

Association du Design Urbain du Québec – Espaces Publics, Caire Et Cartographie

Bauwelt – Kairo Nach Der Revolution

Ahram Online – Passageways Redefined: Investigating Downtown Cairo’s In-Betweens

Urbim – Lessons Learned at The World Urban forum

Community Times – Kodak Passageway: An Entry Point on The Work of Hassan Khan

Ahram Online – Footnotes to Hassan Khan: Seminars, Talks, tour and Concert

Cairobserver – Hassan Khan Exhibition And Kodak Passage

Cairobserver – Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival: Press Release

Ahram Online – Art Agenda: Exhibitions Galore in Cairo, 16-31 March

Inenart – Hassan Khan at Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival Cairo

Arch Daily – Learning From Cairo: What Informal Settlements Can (And Should) Teach Us

The National Interest – Informal Areas and Cairo’s Silent Urban Revolution

Ahram Online – D-CAF Back to Splash Cairo Streets With Culture

Les Cahiers D’emam – Learning From Cairo, Global Perspectives And Future Visions De Beth Stryker, Omar Nagati Et Magda Mostafa

Jadaliyya – New CLUSTER Publications: Learning From Cairo And Archiving The City in Flux

Ahram Online – D-CAF Presents Two Decades of Hassan Khan

The Arabist – Learning from Cairo | Mada Masr

The Semaphore Line – Planning for Protest

Mantiqty El-Borsa – مختبر عمران القاهرة مثال على طاقات المجتمع المدنى

Architizer – Planning for Protest: Designing Cities for Political Activism

Mada Masr – The Day After

BLOUIN ARTINFO – Design And Architecture Highlights From The New York Art Book Fair

Cairobserver – Two Recent Conferences, Between National Policy and Urban Reality

Arabic Literature – Mapping Cairo’s Arts and Culture Scene

The Daily News Egypt – New Electronic Platform for Cultural Cairo

Ahram Online – Mapping Cairo’s Initiatives to Foster Collaboration

Almasry Alyoum – كلستر.. مجموعة معمارية ترسم أول (خريطة تفاعلية) للقاهرة الثقافية

Cairobserver – CURL: Introducing the Cairo Urban Resource Library

Global Voices – مصر: منصة المبادرات العمرانية يالقاهرة

Almasry Alyoum – القاهرة تغرق فى عالم من الجدران و الحواجز و الاحتجاجات

Cairobserver – Artists as Urban Catalysts In Downtown Cairo

The New York Times – Who Rules the Street In Cairo? The Residents Who Build It

Stealth of Nations – System D Sunday

Reason.Com – DIY Infrastructure in Egypt

Time Magazine – Cairo’s New Normal: Protests Spawn a World of Walls And Barricades

Cairobserver — CUIP_ Introducing the Cairo Urban Initiatives

The Global Urbanist – for Cairo’s Street Vendors, The Revolution is Not Yet Fully Won

VICE Magazine – Sweeping Unrest Under The Rug in Tahrir Square

Jadaliyya – Divercity: Contested Space and Urban Identities in Beirut, Cairo, and Tehran

FOREFRONT – Waking the Sleeping Tiger: Cairo’s Other Revolution

The Daily News Egypt – Panel Re-Examines Artists’ Effect On Downtown Cairo

The Arabist – This Is Cairo

Ahram Online – Cairo’s Chronic Traffic Jams: The Price of Bad Public Planning

Arq’a – Omar Nagati – Contrastes Africanos | Perspetivas Críticas

Groundtruth Initiative – Cairo Urban Grassroots

Egypt Independenet – Life’s A Playground: Program Hopes to Build Environmental Awareness Through Play

Afaak Magazine – مخرجات إعادة تدوير النفايات بالقاهرة تستعمل لتزيين حي شعبي محروم

Egypt Independent – Experimental Architects Build a Plastic Cloud for The City

Alyoum Alsabea – باسوراما.. ولدت فى مدريد والآن وصلت لأرض اللواء

Egypt Independent – Cairo’s Central Slum Under Threat

Egypt Independent – Reinvigorating Cairo’s Urban Spaces with Solid Urban Waste

Think Commons – A City in Flux: New Modes of Urban Intervention in Cairo Since January 2011