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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