Hawass comments on non Pharaonic monuments
The article has beautiful photographs of mosques.
“People always accuse me of not liking the Islamic monuments because I always talk about the Pharaonic antiquities, but this is only because this is what I know. I do not know lots about the Islamic monuments, so people do not see me talking about them. However, the huge number of Islamic monuments that we have restored is amazing. We have spent billions of Egyptian Pounds restoring Jewish synagogues, Christian monasteries and churches, and mosques. In the Islamic part of Cairo, which is being cleaned now, we have performed a lot of restoration, such as at Bab el-Futuh, and Bab Zuweila. Also, I would like everyone who reads this article to go to El Muez street in Islamic Cairo before sunrise, because it is very beautiful to see at that time; it is now a pedestrian area and there is a new textile museum there, as well as thirty-three restored monuments. Walking in the streets there you can smell the history of more than 1000 years of Cairo. There has also been much restoration of post-Pharaonic monuments elsewhere in the country too, from Rashid and Alexandria in the Delta, to many locations in Upper Egypt.”
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