
Gallery
Cairo Opera House
Egypt's national opera house, a 1988 gift from Japan
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A central Giza district on the west bank of the Nile, between Mohandessin and Giza.
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Residents
71,161
Covers قسم الدقي, a CAPMAS mid-2017 estimate of Egyptians only, not a final census count; the qism is an administrative unit and is not identical to the neighborhood.
Source: CAPMAS 2017 population estimate (PDF) ·
Worth reading
Work published elsewhere, picked one at a time, with the reason it is here.
How Dokki became a district of its own, between the research institutes, the embassies and the old villas.
Ashraf Farag, Al-Ahram Gategate.ahram.org.eg
Local directory

Gallery
Egypt's national opera house, a 1988 gift from Japan

Museum
A 1938 palace-turned-museum tracing Egypt's farming history since the pharaohs

Museum
The poet Ahmed Shawqi's Nile-side villa, kept as he left it
discount_market
1 branch

Restaurant
A moored restaurant boat off Zamalek with several dining rooms under one deck

Hotel
A 2004 Garden City tower with Nile, Citadel and pyramid views
supermarket
1 branch
discount_market
21 branches
discount_market
1 branch

Restaurant
The koshary shop that fed Tahrir Square's 2011 protesters

Museum
Egypt's leading collection of French Impressionist painting, in a 1915 Giza villa

Museum
Sculptures by the father of modern Egyptian art, in a museum built for him on Gezira
supermarket
3 branches

Restaurant
Ottoman-era Turkish dining inside the Kempinski Nile Hotel

Hotel
A Dokki tower two Metro stops from Tahrir with Nile or city views

Hotel
A riverside tower at the tip of Gezira Island in Zamalek
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