The fire brigade unveils "The Renaissance of Egypt" in place of King Fouad.. The newspapers do not know the name of Soad Hosni

"Souls in the City" reveals 100 years of Cairo's political and social secrets

• The symposium was hosted by the "House of Architecture" in Cairo.

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• Statue of "The Renaissance of Egypt" by the sculptor Mahmoud Mokhtar.

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A Cairo cultural symposium entitled “Souls in the City” revealed the scenes of important political and social events in the history of the Egyptian capital, and the evening included a look at the back world of prominent political events such as King Fouad’s presence to unveil the statue of the Renaissance of Egypt, or a political and social event such as King Fouad’s marriage to the Queen Nazli or King Farouk Banariman. She also touched on aspects of popular history, such as the biography of the very famous singer at the time and the currently unknown Hamed Morsi, as well as news of famous crimes in the back streets of the city.

The symposium prepared and presented by journalist and media writer Mahmoud Al-Tamimi, which is part of his project “Cairo is My Address”, and hosted by “House of Architecture” as part of the celebrations of Cairo as the Islamic capital of 2022, touched on personalities who did not get enough fame, and behind the scenes in important Egyptian events that he captured Prepared from Egyptian newspapers and magazines over a period of 100 years, and the historical show was accompanied by a lyrical performance by singer and novelist Ghada Al-Absi.

Wafaa Al-Nile

The symposium opened by revealing the scenes of the celebration of “Wafaa al-Nil” in 1924, according to the “Al-Latif” newspaper, which included the presence of a representative of the king, the governor of Cairo, and the time of Noqrashi Pasha, in which a dam was being demolished at the mouth of the Gulf, as a sign of the beginning of the flood in Egypt, as well as The head of the Shari’a Court, Sheikh Mustafa Al-Maraghi, legally concludes the “Fidelity of the Nile argument”, which results in an estimate of the amount of taxes in the country, and “Al-Latif” narrates the incident of the collision of the royal boat “Aqaba” with the Abbas Bridge at that time, as well as pictures of dozens of Egyptians celebrating on ships In the Nile, the author stops when the newspaper used the term “patriots” to refer to the Egyptian citizens, and says that this term was not meant by the common connotation that refers to the struggle against colonialism, but rather meant the “children of the country” among the Egyptians, as Egypt at that time hosted tens of thousands of Egyptians. Expatriates as a “land of opportunity,” according to the lecturer’s description.

political scenes

The symposium moved to other political scenes related to the Nile in 1957, where he witnessed the establishment of the Nile Corniche, noting that the press considered it a major national issue, and the source of this exaggeration from his point of view is that the Nile coast was occupied before July 23, 1952 by foreign embassies that were Each of them is keen to own a beach on the Nile, so the decision to establish the Corniche came to cancel this situation, and to turn the newspapers, influenced by the atmosphere of the sixties, and the spirit of resistance to colonialism at the time, into a kind of national battles.

The symposium also dealt with the scenes of an important Egyptian incident in the twenties, which is the unveiling of the statue “The Renaissance of Egypt” by the artist Mahmoud Mokhtar in 1928, and Al-Tamimi tells an amusing information about it, which is the occurrence of a technical problem that led in the last hour to reverse the decision to remove King Fouad from the curtain, and replace This was done by resorting to the firefighter, which also failed to carry out the task alone, so they resorted to the help of the police, and a ladder and rope were used, and when the rope was cut, another rope was used.

Al-Tamimi added that “the most funny thing in this incident is that when King Fouad prepared to leave the celebration, he asked about the sculptor Mahmoud Mukhtar, to greet him and thank him, and they searched for him but did not find him, then they found him in the fourth row, and he came to greet the king and thank him, and he was hidden from view. He wanted to sit in the back and see people’s impressions, because he had never felt like he had done anything great.”

Al-Tamimi reviewed the scenes of Nariman’s marriage to King Farouk and the attempts to train her in the protocol before marriage, and at the same time reviewed a bold article by an unknown journalist named Muhammad Habib, who undertook a journalistic adventure in 1951 in which he visited what the Ministry of Social Affairs called “the happiest Egyptian village” during Farouk’s era, to reveal The general opinion is that the farmer in this village lives on the value of 125 piasters a month, and this bold journalistic investigation was considered an anticipation of monitoring this paradox of the revolution of July 23, 1952.

From political to popular

Al-Tamimi cited an excerpt from a television interview conducted with Hamed Morsi in the sixties with the onset of television, in which he said that he, Umm Kulthum and Abdel Wahab, were the three most important singers in Egypt.

He also reviewed the advertisements' definition of Najat al-Saghira as "a lookalike of Umm Kulthum", and their definition of Suad Hosni, whose name they did not know yet, as "Najat's little sister".

Commenting on the symposium, Al-Tamimi told "Emirates Today" that his lecture is part of an ongoing project entitled "Cairo is my address" aimed at unveiling prominent personalities and facts in the history of Cairo that did not take their right from the media focus.

The symposium “Souls in the City” reveals the scenes of important events in the history of the Egyptian capital.

The symposium is part of an ongoing project entitled “Cairo My Address”, which aims to unveil prominent figures and facts in the history of Cairo that did not receive much attention.

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