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  • On the Stanley Bridge
  • By the beach on 26th July Road
  • The same beach
  • Street full of carousels!
  • A smaller mosque in the El-Afoushi district
  • ...where I had to pose holding the holy tomb for the Imam who insisted politely to take a photo.
  • Meanwhile my room was being cleaned and my stuff "reorganised" into...
  • small decorational motives like this one. It was always the same young man who was in charge of my room in the hotel. One day I got suspicious about something going on when I went into my room and...
  • discovered this swan made out of rose petals and towels!
  • A real piece of good handwork :)
  • lost in details... I guess he likes me; no one else got swans.
  • The El-Anfoushi neighboorhood.
  • The beautiful El-Mursi Abul-Abbas Mosque...
  • contructed by Algerians in 1775.
  • The back side of the mosque
  • The interior from the woman's section
  • The backside.
  • The Necropolis of Alanfoushi dating from early 3d century.
  • The sea salt in eating up the stone, so it's fading away
  • A staged maritime scene from the Choral Museum.
  • Mohamed, an egyptian film student from New York who was the festival responsible for the foreigners and a big time waterpiper!
  • In front of the Roman Theater, with my festival buddies Maria from Greece, Mohamed and Olga from Crotia.
  • The Quaitbay Citadel (erected in 1480), where once where the pharos of Alexandria stood.
  • It's surroundings...
  • Inside the citadel
  • View from the citadel
  • Buildings by the sea shore.
  • I met this cat one day and...
  • she took me to her family.
  • Then it was time to move on!
  • Inside the Alexandria Library; it was designed in collaboration with Snøhetta (Norway). They have an amazing digital archive of books: www.bibalex.org Here you get a better idea of how the building looks: http://www.bibalex.org/English/gallery/index.htm
  • Directors taking photos through mobiles.
  • Buildings by the sea shore
  • The boats by 26th July road
  • You can see the Fort Quaitbay in the background
  • Together with Hülya Koçyiğit
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