El Rehab

Now that we are back in Cairo and settled into our new apartment, let me tell you a bit about our place. We live in El Rehab, a gated community, about 25kms northeast of downtown Cairo. A gated community here is a little different from gated communities in Australia or America. El Rehab is a city built on 10 million square metres!! It still very much under construction, but when completed will be home to approx. 200,000 people. So not your average gated community. Having spent our first in Egypt living in the noisy hustle and bustle of downtown Cairo, it is a refreshing change to live on the edge of the desert.

The view from our old apartment in downtown Cairo.


The view from our new apartment in El Rehab.


We made this move because of the new American University in Cairo (AUC) campus. AUC has been in the heart of downtown Cairo since 1919 and now almost 90 years later they have a brand new facility being built 30kms away in the desert, though it is only 4 1/2 kms from El Rehab. Classes will begin at the new campus next week, though Dave has already been on the campus everyday for about 3 weeks, facilitating a lot of things for his department.