#Cairo

InnerStation

StationInner

Excellent points all. @herandrews made these points here a few years ago when the 'Karen' meme first took off.Anyone who has travelled in the 3rd world knows that 'private order/public

Jo Hook

JoJohook2003

Father's day this year holds many memories of my Dad. Dad died 10 years ago tomorrow. As opposed to feeling melancholy I thought I would do a little thread about

Raph Cormack

RaphaelCormack

The story of Gilly-Gilly, the Egyptian magician who took Europe by storm... His real name was Dessouqi Hussein Mohammed. He started his career in 1910s Cairo and Alexandria doing tricks

Dajala⁷ 🌥

taespharaohoe

Thread about the Egyptian revolution , 25th of January 2011 and what happened for my oomfs: 25th of January is the national police holiday in Egypt. People then chose this

Gasia Ohanes

gasiaohanes

#Egypt is carrying out a wide-scale crackdown on women perceived to be defying social norms, specifically social media influencers on TikTok. Cairo's Economic Court has recently charged two women with

Global Financial Data

GlobalFinData

The Suez Canal was constructed between 1859 and 1869 and was officially opened on November 17, 1869. Dreams of building a canal between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea go

Amro Ali

_amroali

I had lunch with Robert Fisk as an MA student in 2005, Australia. I was awed by his bravery, resilience, writing style, and passion for the truth. Then came post-2011

Bulama Bukarti

bulamabukarti

In 2018, a lady trafficked from Kano to Oman reached out to me seeking help. The agent offered them a job in Saudi Arabia. Given every Muslim’s eagerness to visit

Wrath Of Gnon

wrathofgnon

“Ask anyone: what is the deadliest white powder sold on the street, first synthesized in the nineteenth century? Heroin? Cocaine? they may suggest. Crystal meth? The answer? Portland cement.”— The

N.A. Mansour

NAMansour26

There’s a new digitized open-access collection of photos of Egypt by an Italian photographer Facchinelli taken 1875-1895. It’s mostly pictures of Cairo architecture.I wanted to dissect it a bitBut first,

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

Swenson's argument was that the four social stages seemed prevalent to human society, but, of course, that's a big leap--society isn't always one-size-fits-all. Changing gears, let me discuss the scholarship

Amro Ali

_amroali

Since 2011, I’ve noticed anti-Semitic books, eg Protocols of the elders of Zion etc have greatly decreased in popularity among Cairo’s book sellers. This is not to mention anti-Jewish conspiracies

Stache

StacheEsq

9/11 is a really complicated memory for me—a mixture of pain, confusion, fear. It screwed up my worldview for almost an entire decade, it was a deeply disturbing and sad

Mahmoud Gamal

mahmouedgamal44

Aerial view of some of Egypt's New Administrative Capital Projects Government District & the People's SquareNew Opera House, Arts & Culture CityCentral Business District Egypt Parliament Building in the New

InspiredTeenTherapy

SashaLPC

Thread:1/ Growing up in an Egyptian household in Canada and the US, I have very few distinct memories of my parents hypothesizing they'd been discriminated against based on ethnicity. Maybe

Tweeting Historians

Tweetistorian

1/24 Today, I will examine the notion of "iltizam" (Arabic for commitment/adherence). I will show that iltizam is a clichéd historical narrative, often employed by historians and literary scholars to

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