Alexandria in the Space Age

The atlas holds 8 people and 9 moments here, from 1960 to 2006. The most recorded lives are Naguib Mahfouz, Pelé and Kofi Annan.

Anwar Sadat
in 1968
1 moment here
Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian army officer, Free Officer, politician, and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.…
Garrincha
in 1960
1 moment here
Manuel Francisco dos Santos, known as Garrincha, was a Brazilian right winger. He spent most of his club career with Botafogo and won the FIFA World…
Kofi Annan
in 2006
1 moment here
Ghanaian diplomat and statesman who served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006.…
Léopold Sédar Senghor
in 1990
1 moment here
Senegalese poet, theorist of Négritude, and statesman who became Senegal’s first president in 1960.…
Naguib Mahfouz
in 1992
2 moments here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Pelé
in 1960
1 moment here
Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé, was a Brazilian footballer who starred for Santos, Brazil and the New York Cosmos.…
Saddam Hussein
in 1989
1 moment here
Iraqi Ba'athist politician who served as Iraq's president from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003.…
Umm Kulthum
in 1967
1 moment here
Egyptian singer and actress, born Fatima Ibrahim es-Sayyid el-Beltagi. Raised in rural Dakahlia, she moved permanently to Cairo in 1923 and became…