Leïla El-Wakil, the Indocile Guardian of the Geneva Heritage

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The historian of architecture publishes "Charivari", a small book that traces ten years of fighting "against the silence of Geneva"The European Heritage Days, which will be held this weekend in Switzerland, will be devoted to the threats to our cultural heritage. A theme that could hardly fall better for Leïla el-Wakil. For almost half a century, this historian of architecture has been working to preserve the Genevan building. In her apartment i…