Sinnari House (Bayt al-Sinnari) is one of the remaining bourgeois mansions in the district of al-Sayeda Zeinab. The house was the property of Ibrahim Katkhuda al-Sinnari. He was a Mamluk of Murad Bek, with Berber origins as reported by al-Jabarti. Al-Sinnari immigrated from Sudan to Mansoura, Egypt, he started working as a guard to biggest Mamluks in Egypt at the time. He would then travel to AL Qahira, were he first learned how to read and write, and would later begin working as a fortune teller and started to write books about magic and sorcery and that’s how he got high statues and money to build such a house. The house has a significant historical history, as it was made during the Ottomans administration of Egypt, witnessed when Napoleon Bonaparte's French forces invaded Egypt in 1798, as well as that it’s walls had witnessed the documentation of Description de l’Egypte when the house was confiscated by the French to serve as a place and residence for the members of the Commission of Science and Arts that accompanied the military expedition of Napoleon to Egypt. Their mission was to conduct a systematical study of Egypt, with the publication of Description de l’Egypte at the top of their achievements. The house was semi destroyed in the famous 1992 earthquake that hit Egypt and was latter reconstructed with the help of the French administer was reconstructed. The house now is the Egyptian Commission of Science and Arts and hosts multiple workshops such as art for kids or poetry evenings and also as a tourist attraction. The house needs to get more media coverage to showcase the beauty of it’s architecture and rich history.