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Article: Holding back the sands of time. (earthquake damage to Cairo, Egypt's historic buildings) (Mosaic)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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The earthquake which shook Cairo in October had a devastating effect on the city's Islamic architecture and the winter weather will only exacerbate an already desperate situation. However, even before the earthquake took its toll, the problems surrounding long threatened Islamic architecture in Cairo's medieval quarter were legion. The question now is not so much will the city's heritage be saved but can it be?
Shaken by an earthquake of devastating proportions, Egypt's Islamic heritage is facing extinction. Initially, it appeared that Cairo's medieval quarter, considered the world's most important repository of Islamic architecture, survived the October earthquake. ...