Egypt
CairObserver (Reviewed by Seif El Rashidi, Aga Khan Cultural Services, Egypt)
Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. vi + 266 pp. $83.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0915-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7391-0916-8.
Published on H-Urban (July, 2005)
- Heritage Of Modern Egypt
The Cairo Landmarks Preservation Commission Cairo Observer Imagine if there was such a thing! and there should be, after all Cairo has some of the world’s most important, beautiful and significant historic monuments. Many of Cairo’s historic buildings...
- Travel: Capturing Cairo, The Old Way
WorldRider This well above average travel piece is accompanied by some really lovely photographs of Cairo. Behind the madness, traffic and pollution of Cairo there sits a seductive mistress of a city that sucks you in and bites you with a an addictive...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Cairo's Medieval Town Undergoes Facelift
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5408"The most gorgeous medieval buildings are being painstakingly restored in Islamic Cairo and discerning tourists are walking past Khan Al-Khalili into a medieval city of wikalas, through mighty Fatimid...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...
Egypt
Book Review: Making Cairo Medieval
CairObserver (Reviewed by Seif El Rashidi, Aga Khan Cultural Services, Egypt)
Nezar AlSayyad, Irene Bierman, Nasser Rabbat, eds. Making Cairo Medieval. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005. vi + 266 pp. $83.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-7391-0915-1; $29.95 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7391-0916-8.
Published on H-Urban (July, 2005)
Typically, scholarship of the urban development of Cairo has emphasized the dichotomy between its “medieval” and its “modern” quarters, with little critical analysis about how this notion of a dual city came about, or the impacts of this treatment on both perceptions of Cairo and on its subsequent development. Through the work of ten scholars, Making Cairo Medieval examines the idea of a “medieval Cairo”—a concept developed in the nineteenth century by people who were essentially outsiders to the historic quarters of the city, yet whose ideas of refashioning such neighborhoods to create a “medievalized” Cairo continue to affect the policies governing these quarters of the city today.
The first section of the book, “A Medieval City for a Modern World,” sets the framework around which the ideas that eventually led to the “medievalization” of the city developed.
- Heritage Of Modern Egypt
The Cairo Landmarks Preservation Commission Cairo Observer Imagine if there was such a thing! and there should be, after all Cairo has some of the world’s most important, beautiful and significant historic monuments. Many of Cairo’s historic buildings...
- Travel: Capturing Cairo, The Old Way
WorldRider This well above average travel piece is accompanied by some really lovely photographs of Cairo. Behind the madness, traffic and pollution of Cairo there sits a seductive mistress of a city that sucks you in and bites you with a an addictive...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Cairo's Medieval Town Undergoes Facelift
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5408"The most gorgeous medieval buildings are being painstakingly restored in Islamic Cairo and discerning tourists are walking past Khan Al-Khalili into a medieval city of wikalas, through mighty Fatimid...
- More On Medieval Arab Scholars Re Cleopatra
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041213/cleopatra.html I posted about this on November 9th, when Radio Netherlands published an article on the subject at http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355. Okasha el Daly's work identified...