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- Qalawun Complex Is Re-opened For Visitors
Luxor Times With photo. After completion of the cleaning and disinfecting work required because of a sewage pipe in the site, Sultan Qalawun complex is re-opened. The complex located in Gamalia district of Islamic Cairo and consents of a mosque, school...
- Hawass Demands Palaces Fall Under Control Of Antiquities Ministry
Al Masry Al Youm Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass on Monday demanded that all presidential palaces in Egypt fall under control of the ministry’s Islamic and Coptic antiquities department. In a statement, Hawass said he had sent...
- Sca Panel To Inspect Privately Owned Relics
Egypt State Information Service In accordance with the newly approved antiquities law, Culture Minister Farouq Hosni ordered on 10 March 2010 the formation of a standing committee to inspect and register relics owned by individuals. The law requires...
- Museum: First Ever Museum For The Revolution
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press release: Culture Minister Farouk Hosni approved the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) request to establish a museum for the revolution of July 1953 in Egypt. This will be the first ever museum for the revolution,...
- Cairo Under Siege
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Following its meeting in New Zealand last month, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) released a report that may exacerbate differences between the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on one...
Egypt
Psychiatric hospital to be registered as Islamic monument
Luxor Times Magazine
I hadn't realized that Luxor Times is a printed and published magazine for sale in Luxor - I saw a pile of current and back issues at Gaddis, in front of the Winter Palace.
Lately rumours has been talking about relocating the Hospital of psychiatric and neurological or as it is known to local people as the Yellow Palace (The mental rehab) for the sake of investment projects as it is located in a busy area of Abbasia,Cairo. Dr. Zahi Hawass formed a committee from specialists in Islamic and modern architecture which decided that the building of a great historical importance.
Farouk Hosni, minister of culture, said that the committee decided to register the hospital as an Islamic monument and its report will have to be approved by the permanent committee on its next meeting.
- Qalawun Complex Is Re-opened For Visitors
Luxor Times With photo. After completion of the cleaning and disinfecting work required because of a sewage pipe in the site, Sultan Qalawun complex is re-opened. The complex located in Gamalia district of Islamic Cairo and consents of a mosque, school...
- Hawass Demands Palaces Fall Under Control Of Antiquities Ministry
Al Masry Al Youm Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities Zahi Hawass on Monday demanded that all presidential palaces in Egypt fall under control of the ministry’s Islamic and Coptic antiquities department. In a statement, Hawass said he had sent...
- Sca Panel To Inspect Privately Owned Relics
Egypt State Information Service In accordance with the newly approved antiquities law, Culture Minister Farouq Hosni ordered on 10 March 2010 the formation of a standing committee to inspect and register relics owned by individuals. The law requires...
- Museum: First Ever Museum For The Revolution
drhawass.com (Zahi Hawass) Press release: Culture Minister Farouk Hosni approved the Supreme Council of Antiquities’ (SCA) request to establish a museum for the revolution of July 1953 in Egypt. This will be the first ever museum for the revolution,...
- Cairo Under Siege
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Following its meeting in New Zealand last month, the World Heritage Committee (WHC) released a report that may exacerbate differences between the Ministry of Culture and the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) on one...