A Bird's Eye View over Cairo نظرة طائر فوق أجواء القاهرةA Bilingual Book in English and Arabic. The city of 1000 minarets is the naming many scholars gave to the city of Cairo that dates back more than one thousand years and that has throughout been the capital of Egypt, the center of the civilized world. Egypts rulers came from a broad spectrum of nationalities and backgrounds. Cairo has always been the jewel of the crown: the seat of palaces of caliphs and sultans; the largest commercial center and the