All posts tagged "gamal abdel nasser"

As part of Cairo Photo Week, Downtown Cairo’s Access Art Space is hosting an exhibition entitled ‘The...

Egypt is the country of a thousand authors, but few are remembered across generations as the luminaries...

Ten million Egyptians work abroad – half of that number work in the Gulf, bringing their home...

A decade into Egypt’s Industrial Revolution, in 1962, President Gamal Abdel Nasser gave a speech to celebrate...

The king – or queen in this case – is dead, long live the king; a seemingly...

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

Egypt’s two iconic wartime presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Al-Sadat, look nothing alike. With origins as...

On the surface, blond and blue-eyed Wolfgang Lotz – also known as the “Jewish James Bond” or...

Few movies have gripped the Egyptian consciousness like Al-Karnak (1975) had done upon its release. Based on...

Fifty-five years ago today, Egypt’s popular Sawt Al-Arab (Voice of Arabs) radio station announced the country’s defeat...

Diplomacy has existed for millennia, a political tool of peace that ensured earlier civilizations maintained peaceful relationships...

Propaganda posters were once one of the primary modes of information dissemination during the twentieth century. Looking...

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

Downtown Cairo is an area rich in history. Every neighborhood carries a memory or two, every building...

An era characterised with an air of revolutionary tension, the 1950s through the 1970s, led to ingrained...

A beacon of liberation, renewed national spirit, and secular conviction, al-Wafd rose to become one of Egypt’s...

An unrivalled eruption of public unrest and dissent rippled across the Cariene streets in February 1968. This...