James Bond scales the Giza necropolis in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977), shot at the foot of the pyramids.
Founded in 970, Al-Azhar mosque-university taught for nearly a thousand years before gaining university status in 1961.
At El-Fishawy café (opened 1797) in Khan el-Khalili, Naguib Mahfouz watched passersby to inspire his novels.