Site of the thousand-year-old Al-Azhar University (5)

I believe the answer is:

cairo

(Other definitions for cairo that I've seen before include "Capital of Egypt" , "African city" , "North African capital" , "Egyptian capital" , "Al Qahira" .)

I've seen this clue in The Wall Street Journal.

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