IN-PERSON: Prague – Section B
Abstract
The Giza Plateau World Heritage Site has a long and contentious relationship with its neighboring community, Nazlet El Samman. A subgroup within the community known as the kharteya, or vendors who operate within the site, are the focal point of this research given their problematic and precarious co-existence with the site. By relying largely on primary data obtained through interviews with key stakeholders, this paper explores the role that sustainable frameworks can play in developing the community’s socioeconomic resilience, as well as resolving the multiple risks that are posed to the Plateau due to its increasingly polarized – yet largely uninvestigated – relationship with the kharteya and the broader community of Nazlet El Samman.
Sally El Sabbahy has an MSc (Distinction) in Sustainable Heritage from University College London (UCL). She is a project manager with specialist focus on the assessment and development of sustainable heritage management systems. She is presently the Heritage Planning and Outreach Manager at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). Prior to this, she worked as a private consultant on heritage development projects in the United Kingdom, Malta, and Egypt. She is the primary author of the 2018 Giza Plateau Site Management Plan.
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Wednesday 28th June, 2023