Manyal al-Rawda, un conservatoire de l’histoire du Caire khédivial Fig. 1, ‘Vue du petit bras du Nil vers 1900’, source: Bibliothèque nationale de France,…
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We can see in this picture the St Joseph chapel around 1895 in Cairo. Despite the excellent scholarship on Coptic and Evangelist missionary history in…
Comments closedBibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, 8-VZ-1532 (3): المصدر هذه الصورة نشرت فى مجلة المصور بتاريخ 24 أغسطس 1928 احتفالاً بمهرجان وفاء…
Comments closedThis image shows the pools of the Water Company of Cairo (Société anonyme des eaux du Caire) around 1873, possibly in its first location…
Comments closedAyant longtemps marqué l’entrée du Muski (voir ce billet), le « Bazar Mourour » [fig.1] ne doit pas son nom à l’idée de « passage…
Comments closedThis picture shows the entrance of the quarter of Muski in the mid-nineteenth century. This district was one of the main arteries of urban business;…
Comments closedThis post in 2019 showed the image below, in which American paving machines arrived in Cairo, organized by the so-called Tanzim office. We promised…
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