Egypt
- Cairo's Al-azhar Mosque
Al Ahram Weekly (Samir Sobhi) Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, whose history is sometimes overlooked by visitors, is one of Egypt's most important cultural and artistic treasures Al-Azhar is one of the most serene places to pray in, and the area...
- Travel: A Walking Tour Of Cairo
Times Online (Anthony Sattin) Cairo’s old city has long been famous for the three Cs: crowds, crumbling buildings and . . . overflowing sewers. A decade-long restoration programme, however, and extensive sewage works have made its main street fit for...
- Travel: The Fantastic Chaos Of Cairo
e-Travel Blackboard When one hears the word ‘Cairo’, one immediately thinks pyramids, mummies, camels and a whole lot of sand. While this is true, Cairo has so much more to offer than these antiquities. With its countless bazaars, wide range of Middle...
- Walking Through Medieval Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (The story on this URL will expire shortly) The only way to discover the splendours of Cairo's medieval city is to walk its streets and alleys, lined with stunning mosques, amazing palaces and intriguing wikalas. Many ancient monuments...
- Museum To Tell The History Of Cairo
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=12884"Egypt is going to have a new museum. The Arab country is building, in Al-Azhar Park, in Cairo, a museum that will retrieve the history and religion of the capital city of the Arab country. It will be...
Egypt
Cairo beyond the Pharoahs
http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,32089-2423437,00.html
"It’s a great oddity. Millions of tourists go to Cairo, and almost all of them take the same route, visiting only the ancient relics at Giza and in the Egyptian Museum. But Cairo was not a city of the ancient Egyptians. The city was founded by the Copts as Babylon — one theory holds that its name has nothing to do with the biblical city, but rather Bab il-On, the Gate of On. After the Arab conquest in 641, it became perhaps the greatest Islamic city in the world.
Its mosques and monuments are preserved as far back as the flood-recording Nilometer of 861 and the mosque of Ibn Tulun, built in 879. There are architectural treasures from almost every historical period since then, including a supreme run of Mamluk architecture, the dynasty which ruled between 1250 and 1517. It’s a cornucopia that compares with treasures from the Roman Baroque, or the Florentine Renaissance."
Its mosques and monuments are preserved as far back as the flood-recording Nilometer of 861 and the mosque of Ibn Tulun, built in 879. There are architectural treasures from almost every historical period since then, including a supreme run of Mamluk architecture, the dynasty which ruled between 1250 and 1517. It’s a cornucopia that compares with treasures from the Roman Baroque, or the Florentine Renaissance."
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- Cairo's Al-azhar Mosque
Al Ahram Weekly (Samir Sobhi) Cairo's Al-Azhar Mosque, whose history is sometimes overlooked by visitors, is one of Egypt's most important cultural and artistic treasures Al-Azhar is one of the most serene places to pray in, and the area...
- Travel: A Walking Tour Of Cairo
Times Online (Anthony Sattin) Cairo’s old city has long been famous for the three Cs: crowds, crumbling buildings and . . . overflowing sewers. A decade-long restoration programme, however, and extensive sewage works have made its main street fit for...
- Travel: The Fantastic Chaos Of Cairo
e-Travel Blackboard When one hears the word ‘Cairo’, one immediately thinks pyramids, mummies, camels and a whole lot of sand. While this is true, Cairo has so much more to offer than these antiquities. With its countless bazaars, wide range of Middle...
- Walking Through Medieval Cairo
Egyptian Gazette (The story on this URL will expire shortly) The only way to discover the splendours of Cairo's medieval city is to walk its streets and alleys, lined with stunning mosques, amazing palaces and intriguing wikalas. Many ancient monuments...
- Museum To Tell The History Of Cairo
http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=12884"Egypt is going to have a new museum. The Arab country is building, in Al-Azhar Park, in Cairo, a museum that will retrieve the history and religion of the capital city of the Arab country. It will be...