Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- 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...
- New Antiquities Head At The Sca, But Protests Continue
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following weeks of protests, which reached a head last week. One will just have to wait and see what happens next, but it sounds as though Abdel Fattah's resignation may have smoothed the way for Amine to secure finances...
- Al-muizz Street Re-opens
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) From the 10th to the 18th centuries Al-Muizz Street, which runs through the heart of Fatimid Cairo, gloried in its splendid Islamic architecture. In the years following it became badly run down. It has taken almost 20...
- Travel: Medieavel Cairo
Egypt Today (Ethar El-Katatney) Imams, rabbis and priests all frequently crossed paths in Old Cairo back in the day when mosques and churches and synagogues all inhabited the same districts. In a city that has been home to a number of religions and cultures...
- Walking Old Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Visitors to Al-Muizz Street in Fatimid Cairo will encounter an unfamiliar scene in the next few days. They will be able to stroll along the street without having to worry about traffic. Nor will they have to negotiate...
Egypt
SCA head tours historic Cairo, demands clean-up
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Antiquities czar visits Old Cairo's recently-restored Al-Muizz Street only to find that chaos still reignsMoustafa Amine, secretary-general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, took an unscheduled tour of Old Cairo’s historic Al-Muizz Street on Wednesday to inspect the street’s recently-restored Islamic monuments.
During his tour, Amine was reportedly angered to find that the area had been largely taken over by street peddlers and fruit vendors. Amine also found that the street was being used as a shortcut for automobiles, turning the courtyards of the area’s Fatimid and Ottoman mosques into parking lots.
The court in front of the Ibn Barquq Mosque, for example, had been transformed into a food court where wooden hand carts laden with koshari, hummus, liver and brains serve local patrons.
- 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...
- New Antiquities Head At The Sca, But Protests Continue
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) Following weeks of protests, which reached a head last week. One will just have to wait and see what happens next, but it sounds as though Abdel Fattah's resignation may have smoothed the way for Amine to secure finances...
- Al-muizz Street Re-opens
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El Aref) From the 10th to the 18th centuries Al-Muizz Street, which runs through the heart of Fatimid Cairo, gloried in its splendid Islamic architecture. In the years following it became badly run down. It has taken almost 20...
- Travel: Medieavel Cairo
Egypt Today (Ethar El-Katatney) Imams, rabbis and priests all frequently crossed paths in Old Cairo back in the day when mosques and churches and synagogues all inhabited the same districts. In a city that has been home to a number of religions and cultures...
- Walking Old Cairo
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Visitors to Al-Muizz Street in Fatimid Cairo will encounter an unfamiliar scene in the next few days. They will be able to stroll along the street without having to worry about traffic. Nor will they have to negotiate...