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MONUMENTAL DISCORD - 2001-08-30

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Thursday, 2001, August 30
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Al-Ahram Weekly Online : Historians and archaeologists are concerned that the Ministry of Culture is guilty of shoddy work in Fatimid Cairo restoration efforts. Nevine El-Aref listens to responses

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H.H. Prince Karim Aga Khan IV


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Historians and archaeologists are concerned that the Ministry of Culture is guilty of shoddy work in Fatimid Cairo restoration efforts. Nevine El-Aref listens to responsesNot long after the Fatimids built the courtly city of Al-Qahira, or Cairo, Egyptians began calling it Umm Al-Dunya (Mother of the World), a name it has maintained through the centuries. But efforts to preserve the splendour and grandeur of the 'city of a thousand minarets' have given rise to fierce debate.

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