All posts tagged "history"

Old hotels speak with words that time forgot, where cracks line the ceilings and furniture groans and...

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...

The whole of earth’s beauty may seem like a canvas that is always visible and clearly seen...

Egypt is not known for high-risk earthquakes. When there is an earthquake, it often comes in the...

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

A monument of brilliant red brick and lace-like ornaments, the Mosque of Ibn Tūlūn is an homage...

Image Credit:اسكندرية 1900/Facebook During the British occupation of Egypt, to be colonial was to be elite: to...

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...

Clay needles the horizon of many rural villages; unassuming structures, polka-dotted with nooks and nests and the...

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

It was a searing day in June 1954, when a cool and collected man in dark sunglasses...

The World Economic Forum (WEF) observed in a 2020 report that “a new generation of smart machines,...

Frescoed ceilings and artisanal corner crowns embellish the high ceilings of Ras al-Tin. The majesty of bygone...

A woman of divine beauty bathes in the Nile. Her hand is cast through her hair, unknotting...

Enter medieval Islamic Cairo: days of chivalry, a brave Gawhar al-Siqilli, and tall walls keeping mystical borders....