Several months ago, the artist and Overwatch player Joshua Llorente created an unofficial Cairo map for Blizzard's team-based shooter by using 3DS Max, Unreal Engine 4, Substance Painter, and ...

The title of my lecture today “Mapping Cairo” consciously evokes the Arab historiographical genre of khitat that persisted well into the nineteenth century and was especially developed in Egypt.

It hasn't even been a month since Blizzard released the newest Overwatch map, Junkertown. And yet players are already desperate to play in another new location, with one fan even going as far as to ...

An impressive fan-made Overwatch map has sufficiently dazzled Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan enough to elicit a "we'll be in touch soon". The Cairo-themed Payload map features an intricately designed hub of ...

2008 Map “Historic Cairo”, A3, scale 1:50000 showing in black the boundary of component 089-001 and in yellow its buffer zone. Clarification / adopted 2008 Map “Al-Fustat”, A3, scale 1:2500, ...

All these imminent and actual changes and transformations of the urban experience in Cairo lie at the very heart of the literary atlas project and have driven me, like the historians of the khitat, to ...