25 June - 1 July 1998
Issue No.383
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 25 June - 1 July 1998 Issue No.383 |
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 The palace of Anisa Wissa in Fayoum was to be demolished, and concrete towers built on the rubble, when Prime Minister Kamal El-Ganzouri stepped in with an eleventh-hour rescue plan. Gihan Shahine reviews the events preceding this most timely decision
Repairing the pashas' lairThe old Mohamed Ali Club is undergoing a complete overhaul. Fayza Hassan retrieves a few pages of its glorious past |
The end of historyTraditional industries and the ways of life they supported are slowly but surely fading in Upper Egypt. Fatemah Farag treks the countryside in search of the old ways while Sherif Sonbol captures a few final images |