Prayer mats rolled up before Friday Prayers begin, a common view across Cairo every week (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
A group of cyclers on their weekly Friday ride (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
Cairo's 6 October bridge is unusually navigable on Friday mornings (Photo: Randa Ali)
Children on a day out at Cairo's Al-Azhar Park (Photo: Mai Shaheen)
Girls play with their dogs in one of Cairo's suburban compounds (Photo: Nadeen Shaker)
An Egyptian folk musician plays the 'Mizmar' at Al-Azhar park (Photo: Mai Shaheen)
Cairo's Al-Azhar Park crowded on a Friday morning (Photo: Mai Shaheen)
A morning Yoga workout at Zamalek's Aquarium Grotto Garden (Photo: Lamia Hassan)
A girl poses after feeding a hippo at Egypt's Giza Zoo (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
A man leans on the shrine of Sayyeda Nafisa, a descendant of Islam's Prophet Mohamed in Cairo (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
A fisherman casts his net on the Nile across from Cairo's Manial district (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
Am Ragab awaits clients to ride his boat on a Friday morning (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
Sherif takes his Harley bike out for a ride every Friday (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
Man helps young girl get a swing started in Old Cairo (Photo: Osman El Sharnoubi)
Florists selling flowers to passersby on the streets of Zamalek (Photo: Lamia Hassan)
Contemporary dance performances take place in Cairo's stock-market area as part of the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (Photo: courtesy of D-CAF)
Women chit-chat on a relatively empty metro car(Photo: Randa Ali)
Omar and Karam pose with a donkey in downtown Cairo (Photo: Randa Ali)
A man smokes his morning hookah at Happiness Cafe in downtown Cairo (Photo: Randa Ali)
Ahmed crafts his latest pair of lenses (Photo: Randa Ali)
'Almost all of my customers have left the country, but i got used to spending time alone here,' Youssef says as he sits in his music shop (Photo: Randa Ali)
In the heart of Talaat Harb Square in downtown, a man sells hand-made Rababas, an instrument originating in Upper Egypt (Photo: Randa Ali)
Man crosses street in downtown Cairo (Photo: Randa Ali)
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