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98. Migration of economically challenged Christian farmers to Cairo
Date of source: Thursday, August 30, 2012
Mr. 'Izat Na'īm Jindī is the founder and director of the Spirit of Youth, which is a local human rights NGO aimed at helping the garbage collectors community known in Egypt as Zabalīn [coming from the Arabic word zibālah, meaning garbage]. The zabalīn are mostly independent Coptic Christian...
39. Widespread Nostalgia for the Pre-Nasser Era – a Book Review of “Inside Egypt: the Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution” by John R. Bradley
Date of source: Tuesday, June 28, 2016
John R. Bradley, a British author and journalist best known for his 2008 book Inside Egypt: the Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution, identifies the Egyptian revolution of 1952 as “a failed revolution” that ended Egypt’s belle époque of the 1930s and 1940s’ cultural heyday. The author...
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