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Jazz-Age Cairo

The Skeptic الشكاك - Sat, 2007-11-24 04:36 By The Skeptic

I sometimes think I was born in the wrong time:

Average: 3.3 (4 votes)

Book Review: The Boiling Years

Fadfadation - Sun, 2007-11-04 07:42 By Fadfadation


This is a book by Mohammed Hassanein Hekal (famous Egyptian journalist\ex-Cheif editor of Al Ahram newspaper and was Jamal Abdel Nasser's political advisor ).
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In Memory Of The 6th Of October War (Yom Kippur War)

Fadfadation - Sun, 2007-10-07 11:42 By Fadfadation
It has been 34 years since the 6th Of October War (Yom Kippur War).

If anyone searches the Internet for info about the war or asks a foreigner what they know about that war, the result is one thing... The Israelis won!

As for us Arabs\Muslims, we believe we won (at least us Egyptians won on our side).

Why Foreigners think we lost the war?
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Average: 1 (1 vote)

Dignity Day

Green Data - Sat, 2007-10-06 04:31 By
Egyptian Soldier - October 1973

"At 2:00pm on 6 October 1973, more than 220 Egyptian warplanes flew over the Suez Canal and attacked Israeli command centres in the Sinai. "Operation Badr", soon to be known as the October War, had been launched, and a new stage in Egyptian and Arab history was opened", Al-Ahram Weekly.
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Toes Story

kikhote - Sat, 2007-07-28 14:09 By p2
This toe is on display at the Cairo Museum and is a serious contender to the title of the oldest practical prosthesis.  read more »

Facebooking

kikhote - Mon, 2007-07-09 17:44 By p2
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