Al-Nadwa al-Thaqafiya cafe (B10f005) | Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform

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Cluster Mapping Initiative is part of CLUSTER’s mandate for critical engagement in the city and public space through urban research, programs and design interventions. This initiative aims at the documentation and analysis of tangible and intangible urban elements, and establishing a reliable archive available to researchers, designers and policy makers, and accessible to engaged citizens. It includes a series of interactive maps and archives, urban tours and thematic itineraries, as well as pilot interventions in public space. Cluster Mapping Initiative is an ongoing umbrella framework that seeks to expand its database through collaboration with complementary mapping projects and initiatives.

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Al-Nadwa al-Thaqafiya cafe (B10f005)

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Superblock:	B. Huda Sha'rawi Superblock
Passageway:	B4. Al-Nadwa al-Thaqafiya Passageway
Land Use Activity:	Cafes, bars and restaurants
Frontage on passageway:	7.1m
Address:	11 Falaky sq.

Al-Nadwa is one of Downtown’s oldest cafes, known as a space that has long hosted intellectual debates. The coffee shop at the front of the passageway was established in 1955, and is famous for being one of the last places to still have shisha tombak; rolled tobacco leaves (similar to a cigar) which is inserted into the shisha pipe instead of the standard hajar.