All posts tagged "egyptian history"

While living as Egyptians in Europe, one encounters an astonishing array of misinformed beliefs about Egypt’s history....

An event that changed the fate of Egypt forever. The 23rd of July in 1952 was the...

“India lives in several centuries at the same time,” Arundhati Roy, a renowned Indian author, once said....

Following the release of the controversial Netflix documentary series, Queen Cleopatra, Egyptian experts and youth were outraged,...

Egypt’s 1919 revolution against British occupation is one of the most significant events of the country’s modern...

A young Egyptian boy passes by his father’s bazaar in el-Sayeda Zeinab. The past is within reach,...

Bronze refracts the sunset, and the lions glare forward into Cairene traffic. Lovers stand hand in hand...

In the era of digital communication, social media, emails, and phone calls rule our day-to-day dialogues. In...

Looming over Paris is the oldest monument in France: one of two Luxor obelisks meant to stand...

Salt levels the upper lip, and a pale Alexandrian sky sits over Fouad Street. A statue of...

Currents of smoke rise into Cairo, and a fire that begins in the heart expands into the...

Egypt is a mosaic of history: refined and kaleidoscopic, deliberate in its culture and enduring in its...

Coasting the sea, the Montaza Palaces rip into the sky; the wind is unshackled, swells of greenery...

Mornings are riper in Aleppo; vibrant with the afterglow of victory. Baybars basks in it, but remains...

Napoleon slams a hand down, rattling ink bottles and challenging the conviction of his lieutenants. Word has...

Very few have not heard of them, for the Mamlūks are a daunting, elusive non-elite that demarcated...

“Rumors flew thick and fast among the Egyptians that the French were going to raise a giant,...