#Cairo

K.Diallo ☭

nyeusi_waasi

Today we remember the Egyptian "bread Uprising" of 1977, who carried outby hundreds of thousands of lower-class people protesting WorldBank and International Monetary Fund-mandated termination of state subsidies on basic

Jasmine Soliman

JIsoliman

A little thread of the beauty of cabinet card versos (inspired by @photograph_tut). CC designs start off simple (a stamp and address), become very ornate, then go on to black

Marijn "i before j" van Putten

PhDniX

A lot of time gets wasted on the polemics of the stability of transmission of the Hebrew Bible and the Quran. Instead of arguing without evidence let's compare a section

Shamsudeen

onenonlyshams

A Short Thread of Historical Somali Ulema and Contributions to 'Ilm:Fakhr Ad-Din Uthman Ibn Ali Al Zayla'i was one of the foremost scholars of the 14th century. After travelling extensively

COPA90

Copa90

With the Cairo derby being played in the CAF Champions League for the FIRST time, we reached out to our mate & editor of @King_Fut, Ahmad Yousef (@EgyptianPlayers) to explain

Tony Wilshire

WilshireTony

@wampasmudge @SteveJChambers @Peddler_of_84 @ShiptonTrent @Gallipoli100 Hi all, given interest I have begun this brief thread wrt Gallipoli & my Grt uncle George Pledger Bucks Hussars later Imperial Camel Corp KIA

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Welcome back! I'm @khowaga, and today I'm going to discuss public health in 19th century Egypt. I promise the thread will be more exciting than it sounds! (1/23)#tweetistorian #histmed #twitterstorians

Yahya Birt

YBirt

Book to hear me tomorrow at 6pm talking @MACFESTUK about my new book, “Islam in Victorian Liverpool”, out soon with @claritasbooks, co-authored with R. Macnamara and M.Z. Maksudoğlu. 1/9 https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/macfest2021-islam

Hassan Hassan

hxhassan

Big development.In an escalation, Egyptian president Sisi says Cairo is now prepared to intervene directly in Libya. He says an Egyptian intervention has become legal under international law to protect

William Carruthers

w_carruthers

The current demolitions taking place in the northern cemetery in Cairo (and the lack of acknowledgement from Egyptology that perhaps this is an issue) are, BTW, one of the reasons

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HatimAlTai2

A lot of people (altbeit not nearly enough) know that Nubian has an ancient script that language activists still use to write the language: what is less known, however, is

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

Egyptian media reporting today that 5,000+ artifacts -- formerly in the Museum of the Bible collection and which the museum announced last year they would return -- have arrived back

Dost Khan

Dmkt1

SiSi won’t send his army to Libya , but UAE demands otherwiseEgypt has outsourced much of it's foreign policy forcing it to show a card that it can’t afford to

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

The attack of 1/6 appears to have been very much like the attack on the Benghazi mission. There were protests across the Middle East because of the infamous video, including

Sebastian Corvette

celestite_4

For all the nay sayers out there, you need to expand your horizons. Here's a well-researched explanation. Gregg was in Moscow yesterday, probably researching #bond. Then, today, he travelled to

Embedding Conquest Team

EmCoteam

I (Petra) am very excited about this 10th.-c. papyrus letter sent from Damascus to Cairo (Fustat). Prepare yourself, it’s gonna be a long one. There is silk, war, fire and

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