![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time, strong efforts made to eradicate drug trafficking in the central districts of the old city between 19 demonstrated the desire of authorities to bring normalcy to this area. The term Fatimid, which continued to be used and was made official, is still used today. ![]() In 1979 the old city was recognized as a world heritage site by UNESCO and this was clearly a foundational event that gave the old city the qualifiers of “Islamic” and “Fatimid” based on the prism of its urban and architectural heritage. The proposal was rejected by only one vote. The Committee in charge of the festivities voted on a project of a car park near the Al-Hussein mosque requiring the destruction of several monuments. Preamble: a quick look at contemporary representations of the old city of CairoĢWe begin this story in 1968, at the dawn of the millennium celebration of the founding of Fatimid Cairo (969-1969). This simple process, as far as it is concerned, was marked by certain key events that constitute milestones in a schematic history of its representations from the 60’s until today. Since then, like numerous other historical centers, the center of Cairo has experienced a long history of diverse actions, either initiated or sustained, that have contributed to its improvement and increased prestige of its image. It incarnated, like a social allegory, the fond de la ville (Qa’a al-Madina) (The Depths of the City), the title of a story by Youssef Idris from 1959. 1 The “old city” refers here to the territory that was urbanized before the modern city was founded (.)ġToday, the area of reference in the Egyptian capital is the old city of Cairo 1 but, until the end of the 70’s, it was viewed, as a group of districts irreducibly lacking modernity. ![]()
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