Egypt
Youm7 (Dina Abdel Alem Mohammad Awad)
- 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...
- Chaos In The Caliph's Quarters
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...
- New Site Openings
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) According to Hawass the following sites are to open soon. There are some notes about some of the sites on the above page. The Hanging Church (Coptic), CairoSuez MuseumCrocodile Museum, Kom OmboVisitor Centre, Amarna (Thanks...
- Walking Old Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Visitors to Al-Muizz Street in Fatimid Cairo will encounter an unfamiliar scene in the next few days. They will be able to stroll along the street without having to worry about traffic. Nor will they have to negotiate...
- Al-muizz Street To Be Pedestrian Zone
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
Islamic monuments in Egypt's Muizz Street are threatened
Youm7 (Dina Abdel Alem Mohammad Awad)
After being the biggest open-air museum in the world since it was restored three years ago, Muizz Street in old Cairo turned into public car park due to the absence of security.
Thus the Islamic monuments are threatened day after day by overcrowding, and the halls of mosques have turned into unlicensed open-air Cafeterias.
"I saw a piece of stone break off Sultan Barqouq Mosque after a truck scraped its wall. The traffic movement negatively affects the archeological sites," Said the owner of a shop in the Islamic street.
“Humidity could cause stones to fall from the mosque facade or shaking due to the traffic movement could cause damage,” said Mustafa Amin, head of Islamic Archeology in the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Amin added that some damage could be repaired. He continued there would not be a threat on the mosque itself as its substructure and sewer pipeline, fixed during previous restoration, were maintained but said car exhaust could damage the mosque’s facades.
- 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...
- Chaos In The Caliph's Quarters
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...
- New Site Openings
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) According to Hawass the following sites are to open soon. There are some notes about some of the sites on the above page. The Hanging Church (Coptic), CairoSuez MuseumCrocodile Museum, Kom OmboVisitor Centre, Amarna (Thanks...
- Walking Old Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Visitors to Al-Muizz Street in Fatimid Cairo will encounter an unfamiliar scene in the next few days. They will be able to stroll along the street without having to worry about traffic. Nor will they have to negotiate...
- Al-muizz Street To Be Pedestrian Zone
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...