Sentence examples for ancient quarters from inspiring English sources

Carandini — who begins his short book by quoting Freud's comparison — has been in charge of several important excavations in the most ancient quarters of the city, and he draws on his findings to offer a highly speculative reconstruction of its founding.

Beginning a writing career in the 1950s with an outpouring of story collections, Idrīs who wrote plays and novels, as well as publishing many more story collections in the last half of the 20th century managed to recount in his vignettes the realities of the life of the poor, primarily in the Egyptian countryside but also in the ancient quarters of Cairo.

Many of the elegant villas of the old French quarter have been preserved, and the bustling Ancient Quarter, choked with tourists and commerce, survives.

Then there is the destruction of Kashgar's ancient quarter, a 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old 2,000-year-old that was once the primaze draw fof tourists.

Today in the Ancient Quarter the outside world means tourists, and this new trade has brought hostels, restaurants, silk shops and travel agencies to the 36 streets.

"It's terrible right now," said Dinh Vu Hung, 54, who sells paper offerings for the dead in the Ancient Quarter of Hanoi.

And in the city's ancient quarter, where a similar local deal was negotiated last year, a trickle of people is returning to rebuild.

And here, finally, is my favourite family saga: a gorgeous soap opera of continuous family dramas set in Cairo's ancient quarter through the 20th century.

Its ancient quarter still has houses built by Spaniards in the 17th and 18th centuries and boasts the finest museums in Latin America.

As the other forges have closed, Mr. Hung has found more than enough work among the people who tear down, rebuild and renovate the buildings in the Ancient Quarter — part of the process that is destroying the world he knew.

The army's advance through the strategic district of al-Shaar opened a route into the winding lanes of the city's ancient quarter, which also fell within days.