Egypt
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
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- 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...
- Conservation: Gammaliya
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A FEW steps away from Al-Muizz Street, which is now preserved as an open-air museum of Islamic monuments, stands the area of Gammaliya which now awaits its turn to be revamped and returned to its glorious heyday once the...
- 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...
- A Look At Fatimid Cairo's Restored Main Street
Al Ahram Weekly Stretching 1.5km from Bab Al-Fotouh (Conquest Gate) to Bab Zuweila, Al-Muizulidinillah Street, better known as Share' Al-Muiz -- adjacent to Sayidna Al-Hussein -- has remained popular since its heyday as Cairo's principal thoroughfare...
- 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
Mameluke makeover
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref)
As Muslims were celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Culture Minister Farouk Hosni and Minister of Endowments Hamdi Zaqzouq attended the official reopening of three restored Islamic buildings in Al-Saliba Street in Sayeda Zeinab. The historic mosque and khanqah (hostel for itinerant Sufis) of Prince Shaykhu and the sabil-kuttab (water fountain and Quranic school) of Prince Abdullah Kathuda, which reflect the brilliance of the mediaeval Mameluke period when Islamic architecture flourished in Cairo, have been restored and are again open to the public.
All three monuments were suffering from the same classic problems: leakage of subterranean water, misuse by the area's residents, structural deterioration and serious environmental damage from air pollution, humidity and decaying foundations, and not least the effects of the 1992 earthquake which caused cracking to all three monuments and the collapse of some archaeological elements. Some parts of their original floors had completely vanished, as well as parts of their mashrabiya (wooden lattice work) façades.
See the above page for the full story.
- 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...
- Conservation: Gammaliya
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) A FEW steps away from Al-Muizz Street, which is now preserved as an open-air museum of Islamic monuments, stands the area of Gammaliya which now awaits its turn to be revamped and returned to its glorious heyday once the...
- 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...
- A Look At Fatimid Cairo's Restored Main Street
Al Ahram Weekly Stretching 1.5km from Bab Al-Fotouh (Conquest Gate) to Bab Zuweila, Al-Muizulidinillah Street, better known as Share' Al-Muiz -- adjacent to Sayidna Al-Hussein -- has remained popular since its heyday as Cairo's principal thoroughfare...
- 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...