Holding back the sands of time.

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Mattoon, Scott

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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1993Description: 3 p. : illSubject(s):

Subject: 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?

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Reprinted from The Middle East; Jan. 1993 p. 43-45

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?

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