Field Study: The Engagement of the Local Community of Al- Husseinieh District, in the Maintenance of the Cairo Northern Wall From Bab Al Futuh to Darb Al Bazazrah

Local community participation in cultural heritage management is essential for sustainable development. To ensure that all different points of view are considered during the heritage management, representatives from the local community should collaborate with the stakeholders. Achievement of the needed goal of cultural heritage development, could be only reached by combining the efforts, professionals working in the field of heritage management should work hand in hand with the local communities. From a long time, there were a miss understanding between the governmental stakeholders and the local communities here in Egypt, and that miss understanding leads for many problems for the monuments, the local community and the development states for the country. Through this thesis, I would like to highlight why communities are not engaged in the maintenance of heritage sites? There are many reasons that we need to know them in a way of trying to solve them. To avoid the miss understanding between the governmental stakeholders and the local communities here in Egypt. This could be accomplished through realizing the important role heritage plays in community development that is why cultural heritage needs to be more than simply conserved. It will be a direct message for professional workers in the heritage sector - archaeologists, architects, art historians, etc. - you are a community, but just one community of interest among many others, and the local community is one of those other interested communities.