View of Cairo Looking to East

Photographer

Wass, Betty

Date

• 1988

Summary

• Two prominent buildings in the foreground are the contemporary hotels, the Semiramis and the Shepheard"s. The plateau in the distance is the Mokattam Hills, an area that developed rapidly in the 1990s to accommodate some of Cairo's rapidly-expanding population. The Nile River is in the foreground.