We Are Egypt

A blog run by an Egyptian-American where you'll find all things Egypt. Feel free to ask questions or submit things!

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Nubian woman, Egypt, by Egypt Tours Portal

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Clinic street, Mansoura, Egypt

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Siwa girls dressed in their family’s wedding gowns. The Siwa are an Amazigh tribe located in western Egypt. 

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Cairo - Egypt

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Cats of the Egypt #mobilephotography

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Night walk in Cairo Egypt

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“Nothing is for men only” — Feminist graffiti in Cairo.

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وسط البلد .. القاهرة

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Mobile photography

By Samsung s8

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A father plays with his daughter after Friday afternoon prayers in Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt. (Photo Credit: Mosa’ab Elshamy)

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Sunrise over the Pyramids, Giza by Brian Lawrence

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Spices, Na‘ama Bay

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Medicine in Ancient Egypt, from “The History of Medicine”, 1952

Robert Thom (American, 1915-1979)

An Egyptian physician of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1500-1400 B.C.), clothed in clean white linen and a wig, as became the dignity of his status, is confronted with a patient having symptoms of lockjaw (described in an ancient scroll now known as the Edwin Smith papyrus). With sure, sympathetic hands, the physician treats the patient, who is supported by a “brick chair.” Directions for treatment appear on the scroll held by his assistant. Specially trained priests observe prescribed magico-religious rites. Egyptian medicine occupied a dominant position in the world of the ancients for 2500 years. Source

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Al-Azhar Park - Cairo, Egypt

Built in 2005 at a cost in excess of $30 million, the park was a gift from Aga Khan IV, the current Nizari Ismaili Imam and a descendent of the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs who founded the city of Cairo in the year 969.

Among several honours, the park is listed as one of the world’s sixty great public spaces by the Project for Public Spaces.

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Muhammad Ali Mosque - Cairo Egypt

Also known as the Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali and the Alabaster Mosque, it was commissioned by the Ottoman ruler of Egypt Muhammad Ali Pasha between 1830-1848. 

Muhammad Ali was buried in a tomb carved from carrara marble in the mosque’s courtyard. 

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Tahrir Square in the early hours of the morning - Cairo, Egypt

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Historically, Egyptians have considered themselves as distinct from ‘Arabs’ and even at present rarely do they make that identification in casual contexts; il-‘arab [the Arabs] as used by Egyptians refers mainly to the inhabitants of the Gulf states… Egypt has been both a leader of pan-Arabism and a site of intense resentment towards that ideology. Egyptians had to be made, often forcefully, into “Arabs” [during the Nasser era] because they did not historically identify themselves as such. Egypt was self-consciously a nation not only before pan-Arabism but also before becoming a colony of the British Empire. Its territorial continuity since ancient times, its unique history as exemplified in its pharaonic past and later on its Coptic language and culture, had already made Egypt into a nation for centuries. Egyptians saw themselves, their history, culture and language as specifically Egyptian and not “Arab.”

Niloofar Haeri, “Sacred language, Ordinary People: Dilemmas of Culture and Politics in Egypt”, 2003, pp. 47, 136. (via egyptianways)