{"id":20625,"date":"2021-03-20T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/?p=20625"},"modified":"2021-03-31T14:59:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T13:59:49","slug":"rendez-vous-du-cedej-avec-galila-elkadi-31-mars-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cedej-old.hybrid-cs.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/rendez-vous-du-cedej-avec-galila-elkadi-31-mars-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Rendez-vous du CEDEJ avec Galila ElKadi ” La cit\u00e9 des morts au Caire ”| 31 mars \u00e0 18h00"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rendez-vous du CEDEJ
\n” La cit\u00e9 des morts au Caire, une merveille en danger ”
\nMercredi 31 Mars \u00e0 18h00
\n<\/strong>Webinaire en fran\u00e7ais
\nPour s’inscrire cliquez<\/strong> ici<\/a><\/h4>\n

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English version below<\/span><\/h4>\n

La cit\u00e9 des morts, ou les n\u00e9cropoles m\u00e9di\u00e9vales du Caire, appel\u00e9es aussi Qarafa est un vaste espace fun\u00e9raire comprenant les premiers cimeti\u00e8res musulmans de l\u2019Egypte. Elle se compose de deux grandes n\u00e9cropoles, qui couvrent une superficie d\u2019environ 1000 ha et s\u2019\u00e9tendent sur 10 km\u00a0 du sud au nord de la l\u2019agglom\u00e9ration urbaine dont elle constitue une\u00a0 composante importante. Fond\u00e9e en 642 par les conqu\u00e9rants arabes \u00e0 l\u2019est de Fostat, premi\u00e8re ville arabe construite en Egypte, elle est consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme \u00e9tant la n\u00e9cropole musulmane la plus importante utilis\u00e9e\u00a0 encore comme cimeti\u00e8re depuis quatorze si\u00e8cles. Int\u00e9gr\u00e9e r\u00e9cemment dans le p\u00e9rim\u00e8tre de sauvegarde du Caire historique, un des sites du patrimoine mondial, cette n\u00e9cropole est paradoxalement \u00a0un patrimoine en p\u00e9ril, en situation de d\u00e9gradation avanc\u00e9e et risquant de se transformer en\u00a0 un grand taudis \u00a0urbain. Le maintien des 75 monuments fun\u00e9raires datant de toutes le \u00e9poques depuis la conqu\u00eate arabe, la d\u00e9molition des tombes qui les entourent et le transfert des s\u00e9pultures dans un autre site d\u00e9sertique loin de la capitale, pr\u00e9vus par le sch\u00e9ma strat\u00e9gique du Caire \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9ch\u00e9ance 2050 constituent d\u2019autres menaces qui planent sur des tombes qui poss\u00e8dent pour beaucoup d\u2019entre elles des valeurs historique, esth\u00e9tiques et symboliques. Les premi\u00e8res \u00e9tapes de ce projet on \u00e9t\u00e9 mises \u00e0 ex\u00e9cution en juillet 2020 par la d\u00e9molition de centaines de tombes dans les deux grandes n\u00e9cropoles\u00a0 occasionn\u00e9e par la construction \u00a0de deux voies express en viaduc. Ces r\u00e9novations urbaines qui ont touch\u00e9 un site patrimonial, ont suscit\u00e9s \u00e9motion et indignation dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9gyptienne. Nous allons nous interroger sur le devenir de la Qarafa, en mettant en lumi\u00e8re d\u2019une part, les d\u00e9fis qu\u2019affronte cette merveille du monde comme l\u2019a qualifi\u00e9e le voyageur arabe Ibn Jubair au 12\u00e8 si\u00e8cle, et de l\u2019autre les tr\u00e9sors qu\u2019elle renferme, que \u00a0l\u2019humanit\u00e9 risque de perdre \u00e0 jamais.<\/p>\n

Galila El Kad<\/strong>i, Directrice de recherche \u00e9m\u00e9rite \u00e0 l\u2019Institut de recherche pour le d\u00e9veloppement IRD.<\/p>\n

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” The City of the Dead in Cairo, A Marvell in danger ”
\n– Wednesday, March 31 at 6:00 pm<\/strong>
\nOnline, register here<\/a><\/h4>\n

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Abstract of the presentation<\/strong><\/p>\n

The City of the Dead, or Cairo\u2019s Medieval Necropolis, also referred to as the Qarafa<\/em>, is a series of vast Islamic<\/a> era necropolises<\/a> and cemeteries<\/a> in Cairo, Egypt. They include two large areas and a small cemetery, which all together occupy one thousand hectares and stretch for twelve kilometres from north to south, constituting a major feature of the city\u2019s urban landscape. Founded in AD\u00a0642 by the Arab conquerors next to Fustat, the first urban settlement established in Egypt, the Qarafa<\/em> is considered to be the most important Islamic necropolis that has remained in continuous use as a graveyard for 1340 years. This necropolis was recently included within the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Historic Cairo, paradoxically representing a heritage at high risk of decay and rapid transformation into an informal, badly maintained residential area. The transfer of all tombs out to desert locations is one of the options included in the Cairo 2050 strategic master plan. It has already started brutally in mid\u00a0 2019 when the authorities have demolished hundreds of valuable tombs belonging to famous figures in the worlds of art, literature, economy and politics to install two bridges linking highways. Another planned infrastructure will led to the demolition of 2700 family tombs and continue to disfigure a marvel of the world as described by the Arab traveller Ibn Jubair the thirteen century.
\nThis presentation will shed the light on the architectural treasures contained in the city of\u00a0 \u00a0the dead before focusing on the risks that threaten its existence as an important component of the City\u2019s landscape and a world heritage site.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

Galila El Kadi et Alain Bonnamy,\u00a0 Le Caire, la cite des morts; IRD\/Mardaga; Bruxelles 2001.
\nGalila El Kadi et Alain Bonnamy, Architecture for the Dead, Cairo\u2019s Medieval Necropolis, AUC Press. 2007<\/p>\n

Prof. Galila EL Kadi<\/strong>\u00a0is emeritus research director at the Institut de recherche pour le d\u00e9veloppement (IRD\/France), where she was responsible of the urban environment<\/em> research unit. She is a professor in urban planning and architecture and was Head of Department of Architecture at the French University in Egypt (FUE). In 2010, she co-founded the master program on Cultural Heritage at the FUE in partnership with the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne. <\/em>She is currently a member of the International experts of UNESCO in the conservation of the urban and architectural heritage on modernity\u2019s in Arab world<\/em>. She studied architecture at the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo University and urban planning at the Institut d\u2019Urbanisme de Paris (IUP), Paris 12 University. She was seconded from 1983 to 1992 as lecturer to the Urban and Regional Planning Faculty at Cairo University; to Tours University as researcher and associated professor from 1993 to 2000, and finally to the Faculty of Engineering at Cairo university from 2000 to 2006. EL Kadi initiated and coordinated several European and Mediterranean research projects. She actively participated at the dissemination of the concept of Shared Mediterranean Heritage<\/em> in the Med countries. El Kadi acted as a consultant to the Governor of Cairo for the rehabilitation project of Khedivian Cairo between 2013 and 2017. In addition to her teaching, research and expertise activities, she has numerous publications in the fields of urban and architectural heritage conservation, as well as urban and regional planning.<\/p>\n

Publications principales<\/p>\n

Le Caire centre en mouvement, Cairo Centre in movement<\/em>, ouvrage, 2012, \u00e9dit. IRD, collection Petits atlas urbain. La Cit<\/em>\u00e9 des Morts au Caire, <\/em>published first in french in 2001, \u00e9dit. Mardaga\/IRD, translated to english , published by\u00a0 the AUC Press: The Architecture for the dead, the Cairo\u2019s medieval Necropolis<\/em>, AUC Press 2007, L\u2019urbanisation spontan\u00e9e au Caire<\/em>, (Spontaneous urbanisation in Cairo) URBAMA\/Tours France en 1987, translated to arabic,\u00a0 published in 2009, \u00e9dit. Dar El Ain et Markaz El Targama, Egypt 2009. Rashid, al Nachaa, Al Izdihar, Al Inhissar, (Rosetta, Birth, Prosperity and Decline),<\/em> published in arabic in 1999, \u00a0\u00e9dit. Dar El Afaq al Arabia, Revisiting Khedivial Cairo, A facelift or removal of a Tumor<\/em>, in O. Nagati and B. Stryker edit. \u00ab\u00a0Creative Cities, Reframing Dowtown Conference,\u00a0\u00bb The Americain niversity in cairo Press, Cairo 2017, pages 106-112. \u00a0El KADI Galila, 2016, \u201cReviving Khedivial Cairo, a facelift or removal of tumor\u201d, in, Creative Cities, <\/em>edited by Omar Nagati and\u00a0\u00a0 Beth striker, AUC Press,Cairo 2016, pages 106-111. El Kadi Galila and Sibley Magda, 2018, \u201cHidden and Unknown: Twelve \u201cBelle Epoque\u201d Cairo Museum Rediscovered Through Students\u2019 Engagement in BRAU 4 proceedings, pages 445-454; CICOP edizioni, http:\/\/www.cicop.it\/mmc<\/a> http:\/\/www.cicop.it<\/a>; info@cicop.it<\/a><\/p>\n

Awards <\/strong>:
\nMay 2017- International Council of Museums Award for Best Practice of the AHRC funded project BECAMI for which I was the Principal Investigator<\/p>\n

2001- Organization for Arabic and Islamic Capital Cities; award for the best book of the year : Rashid: birth, prosperity and decline<\/em><\/p>\n

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