Marriott to convert Cairo’s Mogamma building into hotel

The 500-room hotel development is led by a group that includes Chicago-based property manager Oxford Capital Group, US investor Global Ventures Group, Abu Dhabi’s Al Otaiba Investments, and Egyptian investment adviser Zoser Capital Partners.

The Mogamma, which translates as “the complex," was opened in 1951 on the site of former British barracks on Tahrir Square in central Cairo. It was the setting of the 1992 black comedy film Al Irhab wal Kabab (Terrorism and Kebab), in which actor Adel Imam inadvertently leads a group of disgruntled citizens and civil servants in hijacking the building.