“Hop along on our adventures. The Rule is simple: Park, Walk, and Discover”. This is how Sara Zaki greets you on her Instagram page “Cairo on Foot”. Cairo is an overwhelming city; it is always jammed and it never sleeps. We often miss the beauty of this city as we get too caught up in our daily errands. Zaki spoke to Egyptian Streets on her photography project, how it changed her view of Cairo and what we miss out as we get busy with our daily routines. The idea of Cairo on Foot began when Zaki went for a year abroad during college. “When I came back, I was so jealous of myself that I got to discover and visit the hidden gems of a foreign city but never saw [the gems] of my own city where I grew up,” Zaki tells Egyptian Streets. “So, I started going around by myself to places we’ve never seen, I’d stop in the middle of an errand if I spot something I want to capture in the street and capture it, and I would walk more and interact with everything on the street,” Zaki adds. Zaki continues to say that she started to…
