In order to ensure a prompt and effective display of its most popular items, Fair Trade Egypt operates a store in the cosmopolitan neighborhood of Zamalek, in downtown Cairo.  

   There, you can find an exhaustive yet ever-changing selection of goods from all regions of the country. The store offers walk-in clients the opportunity to experience these hundreds of original artisan goods in person and find out more about each item, each artisan and each community trading with FTE. Browsing around the shop becomes a cultural tour of sorts of Egypt that educates the public about Fair Trade and the difference a few well-spent Egyptian Pounds can make to a whole artisan community. 

   Bright Bedouin purses, kilims and embroideries line the walls of the store. Al Fayoum baskets float above your head as you breathe in the soothing properties of the town’s extra virgin olive oil captured in our cleansing bars. Elegantly rustic Al Nazla pottery encourages you to give your house plants a proper home, and opalescent Naqada scarves remind you that your wardrobe can always use a splash of color. Although hours have gone into carefully handcrafting these small treasures, their prices are reasonable to the buyer while sufficient to the artisans to drastically improve their quality of life. It’s a win-win exchange, a fair relationship based on the principles of Fair Trade. 

   Traveling to the Cairo store isn’t the only method to get your hands on Egypt’s traditional artisan goods.  One can just as easily request to import a list of products. FTE will gladly work with you to make sure that your purchase is properly handled and shipped from its Zamalek stock rooms to Europe and beyond. FTE has successfully established long-term partnerships with foreign importers for almost a decade. We’re here to help you help artisans help themselves.