#old photographs
Originally published in 2014 Egypt in the 1900s was a different place. Egyptian cinema was the third largest in the world, Cairo was a city that foreigners dreamt of spending their holidays exploring, Egyptian music flourished and shook the world, Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together as neighbours, and women had freedoms that were unheard of in many other countries. Egypt was a place of liberal spirits, unhampered by sectarian and ethnic prejudices. The rights of men, women and children were…
