History & geography corner

The first adventure of the mind Author: Firas Al-Sawah Firas Al-Sawah's book, The Mind's First Adventure, was first published in the 1970s and has consistently been on the lists of the most important and influential Arabic books ever since. The book was published by...

Human Origins: A Brief History Author: Antoine Balzo Not a year goes by without a discovery: Lucy is not our oldest ancestor, new branches of humans in Asia, fragments of Neanderthal inheritance in our DNA... But there are still missing pieces in the puzzle...

Arab Nazis Author's name: Rami Raafat “Hajj Muhammad Hitler” is the name given by Egyptians to the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and “Musa al-Nili” is the name given to the fascist leader Mussolini. Hitler was also given similar names in Iraq and Syria, which...

Sacred Myths   The Earth rests on the back of an ox, and the sun is a wheel pulled by angels every day. The Hinn, Binn, and Jinn inhabited the Earth centuries before the creation of man.. Iram of the Pillars still stands in...

Mamluk blood Author's name: Walid Fikri At least forty military coups, in addition to failed attempts. More than twenty sultans ended their lives by assassination or execution, or their deaths were marred by suspicion of assassination. Conspiracies and counter-conspiracies between the princes themselves, or...

Ottoman crime Author's name: Walid Fikri Regarding the crime of the Ottoman state, which controlled the lands of the Arabs and Muslims for more than four centuries, and destroyed their great civilization that remained for eight centuries as the greatest civilization of medieval history....

Shazly Author's name: Mustafa Obeid This is the biography of a great Egyptian military officer who played a major role in achieving the greatest victory for the Egyptian military over Israel. This book represents the first detailed biography that tells the story of the...

Ataturk and what was hidden Author's name: Medhat Abdel Razek A military leader who never surrendered, a revolutionary statesman who inflicted defeats on the British, French, and Russians, and emerged from the Great War a legendary hero. He led his people against the invading...

Farouk the Last Author's name: Montaser Amin During a turbulent period in our contemporary history, the young boy, at the age of seventeen, was surprised to find himself king of Egypt. At that time, the senior statesmen bowed to him, and everyone flattered him....

Ramses II: The Complete Story Author's name: Muhammad Muhi Who is Ramses II, and why is his name always associated with the story of the Pharaoh of Moses for many people? Why are the Jews persecuting Ramses II? And what is the story of...

Mitzraim: Tales and Families of Royal Egyptian Jews Author's name: Medhat Abdel Razek Everything around us pushes us to treat Jews as the eternal enemy. At some point, we discover that Jews were part of the fabric of Egyptian society. But the attempt to...

Arab Days Author's name: Muhammad Yahya The ancient history of the Arabs has been lost among us until we no longer know anything about it except that it was a period of ignorance that Islam erased! The first image that comes to mind when...

Arab discord Author's name: Muhammad Yahya No sooner had the call of the new religion appeared in Quraysh than discord spread among them, affecting every household. This discord quickly widened, encompassing a larger area of ​​the Arabian Peninsula. Some tribes joined one faction, and...

The throne was not affected Author's name: Muhammad Ghanima The throne, what a story that never ends, and will never end, and the Alawite family has always been rife with competition, conflict, and disputes to ascend this throne. This book presents a picture of...

Pasha's Chain The hidden secrets of the princes and princesses of the Alawite dynasty Author's name: Suhair Abdel Hamid The book attempts to present an objective view of the history of the princes and princesses of the Alawite family, as the history of that...

Cromer's Papers of Khedive Ismail Author's name: Evelyn Baring The first part of a project undertaken by Lord Cromer to document the historical events he experienced in Egypt and Sudan from 1876 to 1915. It does not present the usual narrative of Egyptian history,...

Cromer's Papers, Khedive Tawfiq Author's name: Evelyn Baring Why has Egypt not always been for Egyptians? The records of the past rarely escape the gray grip of forgetfulness - whether intentional or accidental - as a result of faulty memory or incomplete documentation engraved...

Cromer Papers Abbas II Author's name: Evelyn Baring After his two terms as Consul General in Egypt under Khedive Ismail, and later as the first High Commissioner following the British occupation, Lord Cromer never ceased asking questions. Evelyn Baring arrived in Egypt this time,...

The Hyksos: The Complete Story Author's name: Muhammad Muhi The term “Hyksos” is associated in the minds of Arabic speakers in general, and Egyptians in particular, with several mixed and conflicting perceptions and visions. Some see the Hyksos as barbaric rabble who occupied Egypt...

Sunset ceremony The story of Zionism and the stages of the establishment of Israel Author's name: Medhat Abdel Razek The Nakba of Palestine did not begin in 1948, but rather it began politically more than two hundred years ago, when the walls of Acre...