On Saturday 26 January, 1952, Almost 24 Hours After The Soldiers Of The British Occupation Killed 50 Egyptian Auxiliary Policemen In Ismaliya, A Serious Wave Of Agitation Took.

Six months following the fire, the then king was. One of those was the famed 1860 shepheard's hotel. حريق القاهرة), also known as black saturday, [3] [4] was a series of riots that took place on 26 january 1952, marked by the burning and looting of some 750 buildings [5].

Through New Evidence And Fresh Interpretation, This Chapter Argues That More Than Political Plotting Or Elite Intrigue, The Cairo Fire Manifested Mass Nationalist Protest And Was The First.

The great conflagration left scores of people dead, hundreds injured, and tens of thousands without work or home. Cairo's ifrangi commerce went up in flames in late january 1952. Recalling news images from egypt during those years may conjure an endless stream of pictures from tahrir square with masked protestors caught in clouds of gunfire, tear.

These Events Led To The July 23 Military.

The repository of over 200,000 antique. Lack of access to official state documents leaves significant gaps in the understanding of egypt’s modern history, the ‘cairo fire’ of 26 january 1952 being a. Tradition activities in historic cairo 4.3 urban fire risk and disasters in historic cairo uncontrolled fire remains one of the major causes of death and property damage in today’s society [15].

The Modern Centre Of The Capital Was.

By the end of the day, there were thirty people dead, some five hundred injured, and more than a thousand buildings had been burned. The cairo fire signaled the end of the monarchy in egypt and the beginning of the greatest coup in egypt’s modern history. Just before christmas 2011 the cultural world was rocked by the devastating news that cairo’s institut d’égypte had been ravaged by fire.