Join this book talk scheduled as part of the Tahrir Cultural Festival organized by the American University in Cairo, and featuring Menna El Mahy, Adjunct Instructor at the American University in Cairo and a contributor to AUC Press book Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon by Chahinda Karim, Contributions by Menna El Mahy (AUC Press, 2021).
The talk offers a comprehensive study of Cairo’s Ottoman religious buildings, by exploring descriptions and captivating visuals in the book that illuminates Cairo’s architectural transition and revisits a long-overlooked era of Cairo’s architectural evolution, offering a unique, comprehensive study of Ottoman religious buildings still standing today.