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),...
- 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...
- Two Cairo Landmarks Restored
Ismaili Mail His Highness the Aga Khan, His Excellency Farouk Hosni, Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Dr. Abdel Azim Wazir, the Governor of Cairo, inaugurated the restoration and revitalisation of two historic complexes in the city’s Darb al-Ahmar district....
- Travel: Discovering Cairo Through The Eyes Of Naguib Mahfouz
The Hindu - Magazine (Sadhana Rao) An article that describes a trip to Cairo, looking at it through the eyes of the novelist Naguib Mahfouz: Through his prose, Naguib Mahfouz (a confirmed Cairo loyalist) has given us a myriorama of his homeland. He opened...
- Daily Photo - Islamic Cairo
Historic Cairo, photos taken in 2003 Restored water house, Khan el-Khalili The Blue Mosque Damage remaining from the earthquake of 1922 in Cairo, photographed from the minaret of the Blue Mosque Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...
Egypt
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 gates and sitting down to rest inside the Hassan Mosque, where Crusader knights were once chained for their sins. . . . In the Bayt El Suhaymi Area, urban regeneration has transformed apartments and has pedestrian-friendly streets into the most attractive urban environment that wouldn’t be out of place in Paris’s Latin Quarter.
Random tour guides will happily lead you into the madrasas (Islamic schools) and mosques, including that of Sultan Zahir Barquq, where for a small ‘donation’ you can climb to the top of the minaret and get a real sense of the beehive nature of the community where Naguib Mahfouz was born and wrote about so often.
Possibly the next project may be to restore Naguib Mahfouz’s birth place. It is next to the Mosque-Madrasa of Amir Mithqal, where a tunnel turns into an alley that runs to Fishawis, the famous coffee shop in the Khan Al-Khalili."
Random tour guides will happily lead you into the madrasas (Islamic schools) and mosques, including that of Sultan Zahir Barquq, where for a small ‘donation’ you can climb to the top of the minaret and get a real sense of the beehive nature of the community where Naguib Mahfouz was born and wrote about so often.
Possibly the next project may be to restore Naguib Mahfouz’s birth place. It is next to the Mosque-Madrasa of Amir Mithqal, where a tunnel turns into an alley that runs to Fishawis, the famous coffee shop in the Khan Al-Khalili."
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- 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),...
- 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...
- Two Cairo Landmarks Restored
Ismaili Mail His Highness the Aga Khan, His Excellency Farouk Hosni, Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Dr. Abdel Azim Wazir, the Governor of Cairo, inaugurated the restoration and revitalisation of two historic complexes in the city’s Darb al-Ahmar district....
- Travel: Discovering Cairo Through The Eyes Of Naguib Mahfouz
The Hindu - Magazine (Sadhana Rao) An article that describes a trip to Cairo, looking at it through the eyes of the novelist Naguib Mahfouz: Through his prose, Naguib Mahfouz (a confirmed Cairo loyalist) has given us a myriorama of his homeland. He opened...
- Daily Photo - Islamic Cairo
Historic Cairo, photos taken in 2003 Restored water house, Khan el-Khalili The Blue Mosque Damage remaining from the earthquake of 1922 in Cairo, photographed from the minaret of the Blue Mosque Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes...