Fourth article on the page: "While archeologists and hist-orians continue to warn of the dangers to the historic Citadel district posed by an in-progress office complex being constructed by Alkan Group, rumor has it the Ministry of Culture is planning to invite the private sector to invest in restoring historic Cairo.
Major hotel chains are reportedly being allowed to turn some of the monuments into hotels. Word on the street holds that the first building to be considered is going to be Wekalet Qaitbay next to Bab El-Nasr.
The Wekala was built in 885 by the Mamluk King Al-Ashraf Abul Nasr Qaitbay as a place for traveling merchants to sleep and peddle their wares. It displays all the beautiful characteristics of the Mamluk era’s intricate architecture.
This sounds a bit like the Bab El-Azab project a few years back, when the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni declared that his ministry was going to turn the historic building into a hotel. The project sparked a media furor and the Ministry promptly dropped the idea."
Major hotel chains are reportedly being allowed to turn some of the monuments into hotels. Word on the street holds that the first building to be considered is going to be Wekalet Qaitbay next to Bab El-Nasr.
The Wekala was built in 885 by the Mamluk King Al-Ashraf Abul Nasr Qaitbay as a place for traveling merchants to sleep and peddle their wares. It displays all the beautiful characteristics of the Mamluk era’s intricate architecture.
This sounds a bit like the Bab El-Azab project a few years back, when the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni declared that his ministry was going to turn the historic building into a hotel. The project sparked a media furor and the Ministry promptly dropped the idea."
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