Source: Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France, RESERVE PET FOL-VZ-1248, detail. This image shows an example of the most important interventions in Cairo during the…
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Funerals of Cairo – جنائز القاهرة
In this image, we can see the 1931 funeral of Wissa Wassef (Wiṣā Wāṣif), an important Coptic landowner and politician, and father of Ramses Wissa…
Comments closedThis image shows the construction site of Nadi al-Musiqa al-Sharqi (The Oriental Music Club) in 1921, which soon became al-Ma’had al-Malaki li-l-Musiqa al-‘Arabi (The…
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Manyal al-Rawda – منيل الروضة
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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Catholic Cairo – القاهرة الكاتوليكية
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…
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The Day of the Nile Inundation – وفاء النيل
Bibliothèque 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…
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The Water Company of Cairo – شركة المياه في القاهرة
This image shows the pools of the Water Company of Cairo (Société anonyme des eaux du Caire) around 1873, possibly in its first location…
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Bazar Murur – بازار مرور
Ayant longtemps marqué l’entrée du Muski (voir ce billet), le « Bazar Mourour » [fig.1] ne doit pas son nom à l’idée de « passage…
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Muski – موسكي
This 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;…
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The Tanzim Office of Cairo – مكتب التنظيم في القاهرة
This 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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Cars in Cairo – السيارات في القاهرة
In 1901, a lawyer advertised the public sale of the belongings of ‘Adila hanım, the wife of Yusuf ‘Azmi bey. A jewelry firm asked the…
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Qasr al-‘Ali – القصر العالي
Qasr al-‘Ali : un oasis de verdure à l’origine de Garden City Ce n’est pas la grande embarcation à voile [dahabiyya] figurant au premier plan de…
Comments closedكليتى الهندسة والآثار بجامعة القاهرة قد أُنشأت كلية الآثار جامعة القاهرة فى عام 1970 بقرار جمهورى رقم 1803 عوضاً عن قسم الآثار القديم بكلية الآداب…
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Le Caire moderne au prisme de la photographie amateur – القاهرة الحديثة من خلال التصوير الهاوي
L’essor exceptionnel de la photographie commerciale au XIXe siècle a contribué à installer de nombreux poncifs visuels en matière d’iconographie urbaine : les réalités bâties…
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The Making of the ‘Abdin Palace – صناعة سراي عابدين
هذه صورة تعرض سراي عابدين في أواخر الستينات في القرن التاسع عشر. كانت سراي عابدين مقر السلطة الخديوية والملكية والرئيسية حتى يومنا هذا في مصر…
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The Trees of Cairo – أشجار القاهرة
There was a tree in Cairo whose name was “Kléber’s tree.” The tree was in the garden of the Shepheard’s Hotel, the presumed place of…
Comments closedFig. 1.Richard Mosseri Tombeau du cheikh al-Maghrabi vue prise le 25 Avril 1952 (Glass plate 6 x 9 cm) (Bnf) Le centre-ville moderne du…
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Shari‘a and the City – الشريعة والمدينة
This picture depicts the entrance of the ‘Abdin Shari‘a Court, possibly sometime in the early 1920s. It was a few steps away from the ‘Abdin…
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Karakol – قره قول
The architectural embodiment of authority has been an important part of city security and government in Cairo as elsewhere. This picture shows a new street…
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The Khedive in Cairo – الخديوي في القاهرة
This picture depicts the ceremonial procession of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II (r. 1892-1914) arriving in Cairo, sometime in the early 1900s, in winter time. The…
Comments closedLe cœur français du programme « La fabrique du Caire moderne » est un projet de géo-visualisation des images cairotes publiées sur la plateforme Athar,…
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The “Insha'” Palace – سراى الإنشاء
هذه الصورة المنشورة بمجلة اللطائف المصورة ( 22 ابريل 1929) تعرض جزء من الواجهتين الجنوبية والغربية لسراي الإنشاء إحدى قصور الأسرة الخديوية بحي الناصرية والذى…
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The Comédie of Cairo – الكوميدي/المسرح الفرنسي
This picture is the first khedivial theatre building in Cairo, the Comédie or Théâtre Français. It operated between January 1869 and the early 1880s.…
Comments closedسبيل وكتاب أم محمد علي الصغير يُصنف من مُنشآت الرعاية الاجتماعية. يمثل هذا السبيل العلاقة بين الفن المعماري والزخارف الكتابية الإسلامية (الشعر). هذه العلاقة المذكورة…
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Cairo Tramways Company – شركة تراموي القاهرة
This picture shows the last days of the Isma‘iliyya canal (filled in around 1897), the sweet water canal, between the Nile and the Suez…
Comments closedQui sait encore que les quartiers neufs du Caire voulus par le khédive Ismaïl ont compté en leur centre un hippodrome, dont on peut discerner…
Comments closedThis picture represents a fundamental triangle between technology (paving machines), the Arabic press (the editorial office of the magazine al-Lata’if al-Musawwara, “Pictorial Entertainment”), and…
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Villa Delort de Gléon (Rue ‘Abd al-Khaliq Tharwat) / (قصر ديلور ده جلايون (شارع عبد الخالق ثروت
Cette image découpée dans le magazine al-Musawwar (n° 259, 27 septembre 1929) représente une des toutes premières habitations édifiées dans le nouveau quartier du Caire…
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The Bulaq Bridge / كوبري أبو العلا – كوبري بولاق
This well-known image shows the “Bulaq Bridge” (Cairenes called it Kubri Abu al-‘Ala; before 1952 it was officially called “Fuad I Bridge”), which stood approximately where…
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The old Cairo railway station before 1891 (Bab al-Hadid) – (محطة القاهرة القديمة قبل ١٨٩١ (باب الحديد
This is a unique picture, presumably from 1887 (according to the album description). It depicts people, the bridge over the long-forgotten Bulaq (Isma‘iliyya) canal,…
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