Restoration of 19th-century Al-Kutub Khana
Egypt

Restoration of 19th-century Al-Kutub Khana


http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/834/eg4.htm
Not Egyptology but certainly Egyptian heritage: "Amongst the Islamic monuments in the busy Cairo district of Bab Al-Khalq stands the Kutub Khana Al-Khedewiya, also known as the Dar Al-Kutub Al-Masriya (Egyptian National Library). For six years this splendid Islamic building has been hidden under ugly iron scaffolding, but now the Dar Al-Kutub -- built in 1904 and the first National Library to have been built in the Arab world -- has been resurrected with its original features so as to continue its cultural role of welcoming visitors and researchers and of preserving the nation's intangible heritage. President and Mrs Hosni Mubarak, along with Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, attended last Sunday's reopening."




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