In the words of Herodotus, Egypt is the gift of the Nile. al-Qāhirah, the capital city of Egypt is also a gift of the river and a symbol of years of culture cross-overs and constant growth and expansion. My experience of the city has been primarily pinpointed by my working routine: campus rituals, coffee breaks, bus journeys to work and back home, morning coffees at home with my window open listening to the sound of water sprinklers, air conditioning fans and birds tweeting outside my window and the evening soundscape building up into a dense cacophony of car horns, traffic, people strolling and socialising in the streets. The spatiality of the city is still unknown to me. My exploration of the urban network has been driven by chance, a series of unplanned wanderings that led me to stumble upon very different sonic realms.