Egypt’s revolution
Granite catches the light and a felaha looks across the Cairo University Bridge. She is one of two figures immortalized in sculpture, known as Nahdet Misr, or Egypt’s Renaissance: woman and sphinx, a pair who summarize the essence of Egypt at a glance. The statue was initially inaugurated in Ramses Square in 1928, later moved to where it is now - the Nahdet Misr Street, which borrowed its name from the sculpture. It has become a Giza monument, and a…
