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…