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In 1893 a world’s fair, the World’s Columbian Exposition, was organized in Chicago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. It contained a so-called “Cairo Street” (fig. 1 and 2), which had been designed by Max Herz Pasha, chief architect of the Comité de Conservation des Monuments de l’Art Arabe in Egypt. The present paper proposes a new, fresh reading of Cairo Street by taking into account its context and thereby offering a picture that corre... |
