If Egypt's known at all, it's know for its sites: the pyramids,  the Nile, the Egyptian Museum, Luxor, Abu Simbel, Khan Khalili and so on. But what about all those lesser known places; less famous but more revealing of Egyptian life, values and multifaceted history?

Photojournal: Port Said/BurSaid

 A deteriorating but charming French city at the mouth of the Suez Canal. 

Photojournal: City of the Dead

A enormous swath of greater Cairo is given over to mausoleums...and the people who live in them.  Meet a couple of the residents.

Photojournal: Camel Souq

 Traders drive camels from Sudan for sale in Cairo markets, as they have for a thousand years.  The animals pose, scramble and screech as they always have; but the lives of the traders and their markets have changed...a little.

Photojournal: Cairo Roofscapes

In some parts of Cairo, the rooftops teem with human life; in this more urbanized area, there are some people, but the excitement is in changing colors and shadows. One day in the life of the rooftops.

Photojournal: People's Pyramids

A starter collection. We ask Egyptians to send their photos of the pyramids, not so much as an international tourist site, but as a structure in their daily lives.

Photojournal: People's Nile

Another starter collection.  We ask Egyptians to send their photos of the Nile, not so much as an international tourist site, but as a natural element in their daily lives.