Preserving Heritage: Reinstalling the ‘He Lived Here’ Sign in Heliopolis

2023-09-04 16:05:00

Ahmed Mansour Monday, September 04, 2023 07:05 PM

I appealed to the able artist Najlaa fat’hethe National Organization for Urban Harmony, to re-install the “He lived here” sign, on which was written the name of her husband, the late journalist and writer Hamdi Qandil, following it was stolen, from the Heliopolis neighborhood.

In turn, we communicated with Engineer Muhammad Abu Saada, head of the National Organization for Civilization Coordination, and he said: Official records were made for the theft of a number of paintings in Heliopolis, indicating that there were cases of theft that were filmed through cameras, including a case in the Zamalek neighborhood as well, and the owners of the building did By handing us the video that captured the moment the thief stole the painting.

Engineer Muhammad Abu Saada indicated, in exclusive statements to “The Seventh Day”, that the National Organization for Civilization Harmony has reached 1,000 personalities at the level of Cairo, Giza, Alexandria and Port Said, and we appeal to the owners of real estate in which the paintings are placed that they preserve them, so that they help us preserve them. The value, and the fact that these paintings earn the real estate upon which his lived here sign is placed, is of great value.

The engineer, Muhammad Abu Saada, confirmed that the material and the new panels that will be implemented beginning next month have been changed, and a material different from the copper material has been contracted, because we are keen to have the shape as it is as people are accustomed to it because it has become a distinctive sign of the “Long Live” project. Here”, and in the new design, we preserved the plates and sizes, but what changed was the copper material, to solve the crisis of greed for its theft.

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