celebres (articles en anglais)
Rendez-vous au musée de Cavafy
As promised , here is our interview with Cavafy's musuem 's owner... 1-As a runner of this museum, do you receive more of foreign visitors, or natives and Egyptians ones? -It is usually foreigners’ especially high social people (classy ones). We hardly...
Field trip: Cavafy's museum
This museum is originally Cavafy's flat in which he spent his last 25 years . It was located in the middle of the Greek gathering in Alex. It is composed of 6 rooms , each one contains different items & some of his original furniture . One room is dedicated...
Refa'a El Tahtawi
One of the leaders of the scientific renaissance in Egypt Rifa'a el Tahtawi was born in Tahta in 1801. He went to Cairo when he was 6 years old to study in Al-Azhar (most prestigious religious university in Muslim world), after graduation he went for...
Kassem Amen
One of the leaders of modern Arab Renaissance, known as the liberator of the Arabic women. His life: Kassem Amin was born on 1863 in Alexandria, from a Turkish father and an Egyptian mother. His elementary study was in "Ras Alteen", then he moved with...
Cavafy ; le fameux poète
BACKGROUND: Constantine Peter Cavafy was a great Alexandrian poet who traveled to loads of countries & didn’t live a normal stable childhood. CAVAFY'S LIFE: Born in Alexandria in 1863 as the youngest child of Constantine Politane .He traveled to loads...