All posts tagged "ottomans"

Greater Cairo, Egypt’s largest metropolitan area, which consists of Cairo, Giza, and Qalubiya, covers almost 20 percent...

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...

The engineer of Egyptian modernity was not Egyptian – he was Ottoman. Muhammed Ali is a prolific...

Mohamed Naguib stands over a crowd. It’s 1952, and the street is a flood of vibrant compassion...