A lone pedestrian walks down a narrow street in Wust El-Balad (Downtown Cairo), lined with parked cars and mid-20th-century residential and commercial buildings typical of central Cairo's urban fabric. An orange-facade church with a distinctive tower is visible at the street's end, under a partly cloudy sky. Downtown Cairo retains much of its early 20th-century European-influenced architecture, built during the Khedival era alongside Egypt's own urban identity.