Today we see a street in Cairo in the forties of the twentieth century, specifically in the year 1941, and inevitably when you see this picture, if I had not told you that it was from Egypt, your mind would have gone to a European country, and the second observation is that you will feel a very different difference between the image you see and what you see now. Crowded streets.
You can imagine that in 1941 the Second World War was at its height in the world, and inevitably it had a great impact on Egypt, as the El Alamein region was a land where one of the most famous battles took place, and the city of Alexandria was subjected to some war strikes.
And we can contemplate here the extended street, which maintains its order and safety in a large way, to be sure that this was not present in Europe at that time, given the conditions of war.
In that period, Egypt was under the rule of King Farouk, the last ruler of the family of Muhammad Ali Pasha, while the prime minister was Hussein Sirri Pasha, and before him was Ali Maher Pasha, who was able to keep Egypt completely neutral from the Second World War, and this did not like the British, so they intervened to deport him.
Tue, May. 11, 2021
