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100 years of Egyptian history in 36 images
Nina Awad
Egypt’s history, culture and traditions have long fascinated
archaeologists, Egyptologists, and your regular everyday history
fanatic.
While we know about the country’s history, the almighty Egyptian pharaohs and their impact on architecture, art, engineering and medicine, researchers and specialists in the field believe they have barely scratched the surface.
Fast forward thousands of years from the Pharaonic era and imagine the country in the 20th century. How was it like and how did everything change so drastically within a century? Egypt was once a glorious country that people truly admired and respected and with events that have occurred over the past few years, poverty, sexism and many other issues, Egypt is now is seen is seen as some sort of prison to most Egyptians in the country.
Looking back at the country’s history, I wonder when, and not if, we’ll ever get back to that; thereby, I have assembled a few pictures dating back to the 1900 to 2015 just to remind Egyptians and non-Egyptians of Egypt’s forgotten glory.
While we know about the country’s history, the almighty Egyptian pharaohs and their impact on architecture, art, engineering and medicine, researchers and specialists in the field believe they have barely scratched the surface.
Fast forward thousands of years from the Pharaonic era and imagine the country in the 20th century. How was it like and how did everything change so drastically within a century? Egypt was once a glorious country that people truly admired and respected and with events that have occurred over the past few years, poverty, sexism and many other issues, Egypt is now is seen is seen as some sort of prison to most Egyptians in the country.
Looking back at the country’s history, I wonder when, and not if, we’ll ever get back to that; thereby, I have assembled a few pictures dating back to the 1900 to 2015 just to remind Egyptians and non-Egyptians of Egypt’s forgotten glory.
1. Zagazig city in Al Sharqia Governorate in 1900
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2. Tourists in Cairo 1900
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3. Examining the Egyptian hieroglyphs
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4. Climbing the Pyramids in 1910
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5. Streets of Luxor 1910
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6. Karnak Temple in Luxor 1910.
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7. Australian troops in front on the Sphinx in WW1
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8. Egyptian woman wearing a burqa in 1923
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9. King Farouk sitting alongside the man who discovered King Tut’s tomb, Mr. Howard Carter in the 1930s
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10. Charles Chaplin at the Pyramids in the 1930s
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11. Samia Gamal, one of the best belly dancers in Egypt, in 1940
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12. Queen Faiza of Egypt in 1948.
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13. Egyptian women train to fight against the British colonization in 1951
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14. In 1956, more and more women started bearing arms to fight off the Israeli, French, and British attempts to invade Port Said
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15. Cairo’s famous Tahrir Square in mid 1950s
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16. Dalida, international musical sensation born to Italian parents in Egypt, enjoying a boat ride on the Nile in 1960
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17. Louis Armstrong, the famous Jazz musician, plays the trumpet for his wife by the Sphinx during his Jazz Ambassador World Tour in 1961
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18. Mahmoud Darwish, poet Abdulrahman Abandawi and journalist Safinaz Kazim take a walk in Cairo in 1970
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18. Model Jean Shrimpton in Cairo in 1972
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19. Entertainers play for the crowd after iftar during Ramadan in 1972
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20. Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, in the 1970s
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21. Women enjoying their summer in the mid-1970s
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22. Naguib Mahfouz walking down Cairo streets in late 1970s
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23. Cigarette ad in Egypt in early 1980s
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24. Tourist enjoying a camel ride in mid-’80s
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25. Streets of Port Said in the mid-1980s
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26. Ramses area in Downtown Cairo in the late ’80s
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27. Princess Diana during her trip to Egypt in 1992
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28. Diane Pernet, international fashion critic, in Egypt back in 1992
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29. Tatjana Patitz, model for vogue, at a Cafe in Cairo in 1992
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30. El Gouna, a tourism resort located by the Red Sea, in the 1990s
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31. Garbage City in Cairo 1990s.
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32. Contrast of slums in Cairo and well built building 2000s
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33. The start of the Egyptian revolution in 2011
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34. Protests continue throughout Cairo and the nation
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35. Egyptian women call for equal rights
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36. Egypt after the revolution
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