La maison d’Ibrahim Edhem à Nāṣriyya La rue « du Prévôt des marchés » (Ḥārat al-Muḥtasib) est une ruelle en impasse qui prend dans Suwayqat al-Lālā, à…
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Dans son numéro 666 du 24 Jumada II 1293/16 juillet 1876, al-Waqāʾiʿ al-Miṣriyya se livre à un vibrant plaidoyer en faveur des vertus corporelles et…
Comments closedThe “Digital Cairo” sub-project of La fabrique du Caire moderne program is happy to announce that it financed the digitization of early issues of the…
Comments closedJust about a month after opening the Suez Canal, on 9 December 1869 the Egyptian government gazette published a strange list containing 58 buildings (mosques,…
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Burduwārāt al-trūtuwārāt ! – بردوارات التروتوارات!
Le journal officiel al-Waqāʼiʻ al-Miṣriyya, et de façon générale, la langue administrative de l’Égypte tardo-ottomane, comme toutes les langues, utilise avec constance des termes empruntés…
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A Wandering Pavilion – جوسق متحرك
The Story of Qānībāy al-Sharkasī’s Minaret Through Photographs This photograph is one of the two surviving photographs about the minaret of Qānībāy al-Sharkasī (845/1441-1442)…
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Flattening Cairo – تسطيح القاهرة
In this detail of a map, created by the French occupying army in Ottoman Egypt (published in 1809), we can observe some geological features of…
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From the Palace of Fatima Hanım to the Agricultural Museum – من سراى فاطمة هانم إلى المتحف الزراعى
1920 مصدر الصورة :خريطة عامة للقاهرة صادرة عن مصلحة المساحة المصرية هذا الجزء من خريطة القاهرة الصادر عن إدارة المساحة فى 1920، يوضح حدود الدقى…
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