Daher, Egypt
El Daher, or El Zaher, is one of the districts of Cairo, Egypt. It neighbours the districts of Abbaseya and Sakakini.
El Zaher is named after al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari, who was a Mamluk Sultan of Egypt and Syria, whose memoirs were recorded in the a long Arabic folkloric tale Sirat al-Zahir Baibars.
Sakakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a wealthy, famous, family of Syrian origin, whose patriarch, Count Gabriel Habib Sakakini Pasha, had built a palace and a church in the area in 1897. In addition, Sakakini Pasha is known to have established the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo.11563
