hell" Among its famous guests were Aga Khan, the Maharajah of Jodhpur, Richard Markgraf and Winston Churchill. On 26 January 1952 the hotel was destroyed during the Cairo Fire, a period of anti-British riots and dramatic civil unrest that led to the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. In popular culture The hotel has had many notable fictional guests. It was portrayed in the 1934 British film The Camels are Coming. The hotel is the setting for a number of scenes in the 1996 film The English Patient but actual filming of the scenes happened at The Grand Hotel des Bains in Venice Lido, Italy. The hotel is used as a base of operations in The Race Colonization series by Harry Turtledove, as a location in Agatha Christie's Crooked House, and is mentioned in Death on the Nile and Anthony Trollope's short-story, An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids (1861). It also features regularly in Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody novels. Modern Shepheard Hotel The modern "Shepheard Hotel" was erected in 1957 by Egyptian Hotels Ltd. in Garden City, Cairo, about from the site of the original hotel. The new hotel, and the land on which it stands, is owned by E.G.O.T.H. (The Egyptian General Company for Tourism & Hotels). The hotel was managed by Helnan International Hotels and known as the Helnan Shepheard Hotel. On September 29, 2009, it was announced that Rocco Forte Hotels would completely renovate the property and reopen it under their own management in 2012. The renovations never happened, and the hotel closed in 2014. In March 2020, E.G.O.T.H. signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s AlSharif Group Holding to finance developing and furnishing the renovation worth $90 million. In 2021, it was announced that Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group had been selected to operate the renovated hotel. In 2022, a reopening date was set for 2024. See also References External links Shepheard Hotel website Former buildings and structures in Egypt Hotels in Cairo Downtown Cairo Tourist attractions in Egypt