Cairo in the Interwar Period

The atlas holds 8 people and 14 moments here, from 1921 to 1939. The most recorded lives are Naguib Mahfouz, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Umm Kulthum.

Anwar Sadat
in 1938
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.…
Dalida
in 1933
1 moment here
Dalida, born Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was an Egyptian-born Italian-French singer, actress and model.…
Gamal Abdel Nasser
from 1924 to 1935
3 moments here
Egyptian army officer, leader of the 1952 Egyptian Revolution, and president of Egypt from 1954 until his death.…
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
in 1939
1 moment here
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919–1980) was the last shah of Iran, reigning from 1941 until the Iranian Revolution of 1979.…
Naguib Mahfouz
from 1924 to 1938
4 moments here
Egyptian novelist, screenwriter, and playwright whose fiction made Cairo a central setting of modern Arabic literature.…
Umm Kulthum
from 1923 to 1929
2 moments 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…
Winston Churchill
in 1921
1 moment here
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…
Yasser Arafat
in 1929
1 moment here
Palestinian political leader, founding member of Fatah, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization from 1969 to 2004, and president of the…