# International conservation programmes take the Cairo Citadel as a historic-cities project

Date: 2000

## The fact

By around 2000, World Monuments Fund, Aga Khan Historic Cities, and Egyptian authorities were treating the Citadel and adjacent historic Cairo as a conservation-and-urban project. The builder is twelfth-century; the project is not.

## Context

Conservation is industrial-cultural policy. It can protect stone and can displace residents. Medium confidence on welfare mix; high on the programmes existing.

[Saladin](/people/saladin) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official heritage, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: World Monuments Fund — Citadel of Salah al-Din (https://www.wmf.org/project/citadel-salah-al-din; World Monuments Fund).

## Significance

A scaffolding contract is not 1176. Split tourism rents onto another row.

A scaffolding contract is not 1176. Split tourism rents onto another row.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [industrial-policy-activism](/drivers/industrial-policy-activism). The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Saladin: https://factrail.ai/people/saladin

## Drivers

- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.akdn.org/
- https://www.wmf.org/project/citadel-salah-al-din

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/sa-citadel-conservation-wmf