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…
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La fabrique du Caire moderne Posts
Qui 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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