american studies institute ain sukhna, egyptjanuary 2005 slideshow four: tour of cairo a joint...
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American Studies InstituteAin Sukhna, Egypt January 2005
Slideshow Four:Tour of Cairo
A Joint Project of Binational Fulbright Commission-Egypt
and
James Madison UniversityOffice of International Programs
Lee Sternberger, Principal Investigator
Project Directors Noha El Gindi (Fulbright)
Lorie Merrow (JMU)
JMU FacultyPhilip Bigler, Steve Reich
Elizabeth Chew (Monticello) Mark Facknitz, Howard Lubert
Fulbright AssistantsMariam
Laila HusseinJMU Student Assistant
Bareza Rasoul
First day, Cairo
First stop, the Citadel,
Mohammed Ali Mosque
and Sultan Hassan Mosque
The Citadel
The Muhammed Ali “Alabaster” Mosque, 1857
Sultan Hassan Mosque, 1256
One of four liwan (vaults) in the mosque, and the
only one completed
Second Stop
Coptic Cairo
Coptic Christianity is the oldest existing form of
Christianity, a sect which distinguished itself
early in its belief that Christ had a
monophysite, or purely divine identity, rather
than a dual, divine and human, identity.
An ancient Christian church, the Mari Girgis or St. George
It is believed that the Holy Family stayed here on their way to Jerusalem.
Third Stop
Lunch at the Naguib Mahfouz Restaurant
in Khan al Khalili
a bazaar hundreds of years old,
also known as the ‘tourist bazaar’
Enter Khan al Khalili
Our erstwhile guide
takes a break for a
smoke while we eat…