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Reach the editorial office on the Manial island directly.

A real person — usually Dr. Khalil Abdelhamid, who runs editorial direction — reads every message that comes through this page. Most enquiries are answered inside one Egyptian working day. The form below is the fastest route; the postal address, phone, and direct email are listed underneath for the cases where the form does not suit.

How to reach us

Four channels, listed by how quickly we reply.

Email and the contact form have the same reply window. Phone is answered during office hours by Wael Boutros on the standing rotation. Postal mail is opened on Sundays.

  • Email. [email protected] — replied to inside one working day, in English, Arabic or French.
  • Phone. +20 2 2363 8417 — Sunday to Thursday, 09:00–16:00 Cairo time (UTC+2). Closed Friday and Saturday.
  • Post. Suhaymi Archive L.L.C., 42 Sharia Al-Manial, El-Manial, Cairo 11451, Egypt. Mail opened on Sundays.
  • In person. Office visits by appointment; the building is a working office on Sharia Al-Manial with no public reception. Email first.

Send a message

Tell us what you need. If your question matches one of the topics below, the message is routed straight to the responsible editor.

Before you write

Four short answers that save a round of email.

A significant share of the enquiries we receive fall under one of these four topics. If yours does, the short answer below may already cover it.

Will you arrange the museum visit and pre-book the tickets?
No, we do not handle bookings at any tier. Museum tickets for the institutions we cover are bought at the door (Museum of Islamic Art, Coptic Museum, Manial Palace, Gayer-Anderson) or are free (Bayt Al-Suhaymi, Sennari House, Al-Mu'izz Street monuments). Our published files explain the practical access for each.
Can you arrange access to the curatorial reserves?
We do not arrange access — the curatorial offices do that. What we offer is the reserve-access application template (subscriber resource, Library and Field tiers) and the Service C gallery-route memo for the public galleries. We do not have privileged access ourselves.
Can I reuse text or images from the public files?
Short factual reuse with citation is fine. Wholesale reuse of a page, or any use of photographs taken by the editors, requires a written licence from the desk. Educational use under a stated programme licence (typically university seminars) is granted at no charge; commercial reuse is quoted case by case.
Do you accept guest contributions?
Yes, by invitation. The two-person contributor bench rotates every two years, and new contributors are usually identified after a published academic piece on Cairene material culture catches an editor's eye. Unsolicited pitches are read but seldom commissioned; the editorial budget for speculative work is limited.
Where the office sits

42 Sharia Al-Manial is 200 metres south of the Manial Palace gate.

Sharia Al-Manial is the main street running north-south along the spine of the Manial island in central Cairo. The office is a 1950s residential building, second floor; the ground floor is a small medical practice. There is no public reception. Visitors arrive by appointment and call the office line on arrival.

From Cairo International Airport (CAI), the office is approximately 45 minutes by taxi in normal traffic, longer during peak hours. From central Cairo (Tahrir Square), 15 minutes by taxi across the Qasr el-Nil bridge and south along the corniche. The El-Sayeda Zeinab metro station on Line 1 is approximately 12 minutes' walk from the office across the Malek El-Saleh bridge.

For visitors combining the office visit with the Manial Palace (our nearest neighbour, 7 minutes' walk north), the museum opens at 09:00 daily. Most subscribers who visit in person come for an office meeting at 10:00 and then walk to the palace for a full visit by 11:00.