Omniya Abdel Barr

“Gaza has 350 heritage sites, two third of them have been bombed or destroyed {by the IDF}” HRH Princess Dana Feras, president if the Petra National Trust.

03.12.2024 06:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Starting "Facing Change" conference in Amman with professionals on cultural heritage preservation from the INTO network, by honouring Gaza and Palestine.

03.12.2024 06:22 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

The Sound of Revolution in Modern Egypt

For anyone searching for a podcast to play during a walk, while grading, or elsewhere, you might wish to check out this #Ottoman History series on the sounds of #Egypt over the past century, from WWI to the audiocassette to the Arab Spring. www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/p/the-sound-...

22.11.2024 17:20 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 1

This is where I work in Cairo: Bab al-Wazir in the 1920's with Bayt al-Razzaz (1474) to the right, and the Mosque of Umm Sultan Shaban (b.1367). To the left Bayt Sedki Pasha and the now lost Bayt Qura'a, Shaykh al-Azhar and Egypt's Mufti from 1921-1928.

Photo by Lehnert and Landrock.

18.11.2024 19:21 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is my very first post, Middle Eastern here :)

16.11.2024 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0