Egypt
- Heritage Of Modern Egypt
The Cairo Landmarks Preservation Commission Cairo Observer Imagine if there was such a thing! and there should be, after all Cairo has some of the world’s most important, beautiful and significant historic monuments. Many of Cairo’s historic buildings...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Travel: Tale Of Two Cities
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4726568 "Modern Cairo is a city of 18-million people. Like many large cities, residents enjoy the conveniences of technology and availability of culture and nightlife, but struggle with dense gridlock...
- Preserving History - Garden City
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/sc142.htmAn article that looks at the risks to historic buildings in Egypt, using Garden City as a case study: "To date, laws and regulations defining a historic building or landmark remain equivocal, which makes it...
Egypt
Rescuing Cairo's Lost Heritage
http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2343.cfm
If you are interested in Cairo's past, don't miss this article, which not only discusses past and present conservation projects but also offers a concise summary of Cairo's history: "Cairo is truly a unique city, and the thousand-year-old historic area (which actually consists of several separate neighborhoods) is one of the world's few surviving medieval cities left intact. Many cities in the Arab world, such as Damascus and Baghdad, have repeatedly been ransacked by invading armies, leaving them stripped of their original layout and structures. By contrast, historic Cairo retains many of the same streets and buildings added to the city during the course of the last millennium. A modern day traveler can find many of the same monuments and landmarks as those mentioned in writings by medieval historians, such as Ibn al-Batuta and al-Maqrizi."
- Heritage Of Modern Egypt
The Cairo Landmarks Preservation Commission Cairo Observer Imagine if there was such a thing! and there should be, after all Cairo has some of the world’s most important, beautiful and significant historic monuments. Many of Cairo’s historic buildings...
- New Book: Unesco - Managing Historic Cities
World Heritage Convention Slightly off-topic but may be of interest to some readers. Managing Historic Cities, World Heritage Series n°27. With over 250 properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, cities are one of the most abundant and diverse...
- Book Review: Creating Medieval Cairo
Egypt Daily Star News (Jamila Yosri) Paula Sanders’ “Creating Medieval Cairo” is not a quick read for an average tourist, but a book for the more serious observers and students. It is a meticulously researched book with more than 50 pages of notes...
- Travel: Tale Of Two Cities
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=local&id=4726568 "Modern Cairo is a city of 18-million people. Like many large cities, residents enjoy the conveniences of technology and availability of culture and nightlife, but struggle with dense gridlock...
- Preserving History - Garden City
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/794/sc142.htmAn article that looks at the risks to historic buildings in Egypt, using Garden City as a case study: "To date, laws and regulations defining a historic building or landmark remain equivocal, which makes it...