CAIRO IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: IMAGINING A "MEDIEVAL" CITY: A SYMPOSIUM

February 12-13, 2004

This symposium will bring together members of the Misr Research Group to discuss their research on nineteenth-century Cairo as it was perceived and represented by Europeans and Egyptians. Some papers will focus on the ways in which Cairo was inscribed with a medieval identity in the nineteenth century by artists, architects, urban planners, and conservationists, while others will focus on the ways in which the ordinary practices of and historical writings by Cairenes contested this “medieval”
identity.