Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant)
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
- Threat To Ancient On At Heliopolis
http://tinyurl.com/cw6zt This is a copy of the complete letter to the Reader's Page of the Cairo Magazine, by Raoul Chomka, entitled Comments on Qatameya, but focusing on the building of a new shopping mall on the site of the city of On: "Thank you...
- Ancient Heliopolis
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/fe1.htm "Connected to the Nile by a canal, Heliopolis (the Ancient Egyptian Iunu and Biblical On) was always a place of eminence. As early as pre-dynastic times it was considered a holy site -- a fact to which the discovery,...
- A Number Of News Items . . .
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ A number of news itesm have appeared on the Egyptian Gazette today. They are summarized in order of appearence on the page (introductory details are quoted - but see the page for many more details) New book chronicles...
Egypt
New Book: Heliopolis
Al Masry Al Youm (Louise Sarant)
The Fond Mercator, a renowned Belgium publishing house specializing in art books, has recently published “Heliopolis,” a 240-page richly illustrated coffee table book that studies the different historic stages of Cairo’s northeastern neighborhood.Edited by Marie-Cecile Bruwier, a Belgian archaeologist, Egyptologist and art historian, and Anne Van Loo, architect and urban planner, the book presents a number of research papers by contributors from France, Belgium and Egypt to illustrate the evolution of Heliopolis through three main stages of its history: ancient times, the Middle Ages and the beginning of the 20th century’s new Heliopolis.
Bruwier explained at a press conference last month that she envisioned this publication as “a global and coherent presentation of Heliopolis, which since time immemorial, has been a place for cultural exchange and meeting.”
In Pharaonic times, Heliopolis, which was called “Iounou,” had religious importance as it housed the country’s largest sun temple. The city’s major god was Re, the sun god. This later gave birth to the Greek appellation of the city as Heliopolis, the “City of the Sun.”
- Baron Empain's Legendary Palace Is To Be Converted
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine el-Aref) Baron Empain's legendary palace is to be converted into an international cultural centre and museum after restoration, Nevine El-Aref reports When Edouard Empain arrived to Egypt in 1904 to construct a railway line...
- Travel: Visiting Cairo
http://tinyurl.com/f7utl (mirror.co.uk)A travel item describing in brief what Cairo is like, what to see in the city, where to eat, what sort of night life is available, where to shop, and (if you are based in the UK) how to get there. There are no surprises...
- Threat To Ancient On At Heliopolis
http://tinyurl.com/cw6zt This is a copy of the complete letter to the Reader's Page of the Cairo Magazine, by Raoul Chomka, entitled Comments on Qatameya, but focusing on the building of a new shopping mall on the site of the city of On: "Thank you...
- Ancient Heliopolis
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/744/fe1.htm "Connected to the Nile by a canal, Heliopolis (the Ancient Egyptian Iunu and Biblical On) was always a place of eminence. As early as pre-dynastic times it was considered a holy site -- a fact to which the discovery,...
- A Number Of News Items . . .
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/4/ A number of news itesm have appeared on the Egyptian Gazette today. They are summarized in order of appearence on the page (introductory details are quoted - but see the page for many more details) New book chronicles...