A prince’s island palace that weaves Ottoman, Moorish and Persian styles through Nile gardens.
Prince Mohamed Ali Tewfik spent a quarter-century building his residence on Roda Island, treating it as a private museum of Islamic craft. Each pavilion speaks a different dialect — a Damascene reception room, a Persian-tiled mosque, a throne hall — set in botanical gardens that still draw families on Fridays.
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