Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/he1.htm"Through the different ages, Al-Muizz Street maintained its glorious position and encouraged Mamelukes, Circassians, Ayyubids and Ottomans to enhance its character by building splendid mosques, sabils (water...
Egypt
Al-Muizz Street re-opens
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref)
From the 10th to the 18th centuries Al-Muizz Street, which runs through the heart of Fatimid Cairo, gloried in its splendid Islamic architecture. In the years following it became badly run down. It has taken almost 20 years of restoration and rehabilitation for the street to regain much of the splendour it saw in the days of the Fatimids, Ayoubids, Mamluks and Ottomans.
Formerly the street resounded with the cacophony of shouts as traffic -- both motorised and horse or donkey-drawn -- battled with vendors and pedestrians for right of way. Now by day it is a pedestrian zone, not quite in keeping with the past but rather more suited to the nature of today's visitors.
At the invitation of Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, Mrs Suzanne Mubarak attended the openning on Saturday and was given a tour of four of the 34 architectural monuments lining the street.
There's a map of the northern part of the street on Wikipedia, which makes for impressive viewing (keep clicking to zoom in on a version that you can actually read), and an excellent photograph also on Wikipedia of one small part of the street. If anyone has any photos of the street that they would like to share please get in touch with me: andie @ easynet.co.uk
- Catastrophe In Cairo's Historic Al-muizz Street Contained
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With two photographs. Following six hours of being submerged in drainage water, Al-Muizz Street is back to normal and the distinguished Islamic monuments that line its edges are safe. Yesterday, after the noon prayer, drainage...
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Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With three photos. Al-Muiz Street in Islamic Cairo is now totally transformed. When it was first closed off into a pedestrian-only open-air museum, the architecture imposed a serenity and power. Unfortunately, this is no...
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/843/he1.htm"Through the different ages, Al-Muizz Street maintained its glorious position and encouraged Mamelukes, Circassians, Ayyubids and Ottomans to enhance its character by building splendid mosques, sabils (water...