#Egyptian

Bret Devereaux

BretDevereaux

Statues are back in the news; I suppose I ought say something about statues, because I'm a historian and people keep saying that statues are about 'remembering history.'Folks, statues are

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

My essay on #LoujainAlhathloul: So clamorous was her courage, so loud her refusal to break that it made her more of a liability for the #Saudi regime inside prison than

Italian Military Archives

ITM_archives

Thread on the Alexandria raid (it will be quite long)On the night of the 18/12 1941, the submarine Scirè, commanded by Junio Valerio Borghese, was stationing submerged near the British

Eztainutlacatl

cbkwgl

Signal is the new buzz word now. But, what does it represent - in the sense, why do you want to adopt it? I can cite three reasons1. Proof yourself

JW Weatherman | mathbot.com

JWWeatherman_

I know things seem hopeless right now. We appear on a fast track to global socialism and we are living through the most destructive economic policies conceivable.Truth has become a

ASTENE

ASTENE1997

#BOTD Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). As well as a painter and sculptor, President @royalacademy and doyen of Victorian London, Leighton was a prolific traveller - most notably visiting large parts of

Raph Cormack

RaphaelCormack

About a year ago I came across a turn of the century book of poems about Cairo's nightlife district with a picture of an American woman I had never heard

Ante D. Luvian

uncle_deluge

A seemingly intuitive idea for reconstructing the religions of the Indo-European peoples is that their beliefs would ultimately be closer to one another than to anyone else's. This holds up

Abayorr Mi

iamabayorr

7 most powerful African queens in history you need to know.A THREAD 1. Amina the Queen of Zaria NigeriaAmina Mohamud was a Hausa warrior queen of the city-state Zazzau, presently

Nick Booth

Nickuae

1/15 Hi, my name is Nick Booth, I’m the @SocMusArch Membership Secretary and Head of Collections @SSGreatBritain – and my Twitter paper is titled ‘Exciting Dull Objects’ – museum objects

Derrick Wilmore Jr.

CoachWilmore_

Characterization, numerology and symbolism are avenues used as forms of communication outside of verbal expression. Often times, these representstions/“messages” are hidden in broad daylight so with that being said I

(Kat)harsis

AnyAFKat

Instead of studying, I want to tell you about a bada*s woman named Hatshepsut. She was the 2nd woman to become pharaoh in her own right in the Old Kingdom...that

BLACK CONSERVATIVE

blackrepublican

The Black Queen Who Put The Fear Of God Into the Roman Empire.Amanirenas was the queen of the Kingdom of Kush. Her full title was #Amnirense qore li kdwe li

Amr Magdi

ganobi

In this thread I want to explain a little bit more of the context surrounding the campaign of arrests, prosecutions & jail of women in #Egypt under "morality" charges

Michael Press

MichaelDPress

For hundreds of years, Europeans ground up Egyptian mummies to use them as paint . . . and swallow them as medicine. How were they able to do this, and

Raph Cormack

RaphaelCormack

In the winter of 1930-31 the Egyptian magazine al-Dunya al-Musawwara ran a series of articles documenting Cairo's underworld - "Hidden Cairo" - and delving into the city's murky underbelly. [Thread]

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