History
modern Egypt
Guides covering the modern period.
Mohamed Ali Pasha: Albanian Heritage and the Cairo That Built Modern Egypt
He was an Albanian tobacco merchant's son who never learned Arabic. He founded the dynasty that ruled Egypt until 1952. The mosque bearing his name is the least interesting thing about him.
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Mohamed Ali Mosque: Albanian History That Built Modern Egypt
An Albanian soldier who couldn't read built the mosque that still defines Cairo's skyline. His story is stranger than any pharaoh's.
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Mohamed Ali Pasha: Albania's Gift to Egypt's Modern History
An Albanian soldier who never learned Arabic fluently built modern Egypt, and his mosque sits on a citadel the Crusaders tried and failed to take. Here is the full story.
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