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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 21 - 27 September 2000 Issue No. 500 
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Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 |
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Al-Ahram Weekly On-line 21 - 27 September 2000 Issue No. 500
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Clumsily positioned air conditioning units are ruining the original wrought-iron balconies of this architectural gem on Tewfiqiya Square
Originally designed for an affluent, business oriented foreign community with the model of the ancient wikala in mind, the buildings of turn-of-the-century downtown Cairo still equal and often surpass in architectural magnificence those of any great capital
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Attempts at restoration of a delicate relief crowning a building on Soliman Pasha Square (Madbouli bookshop occupies the ground floor);
Molding and cornices overlooking Qasr Al-Nil Street
A view of the deteriorating Khedival buildings on Emadeddin Street
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