Unearth the #Cairo Toe! 🦶 Dating back to 950-710 BCE, this wooden prosthetic toe from ancient #Egypt, now in the British Museum, reflects remarkable innovation. More than art, it's functional, enhancing mobility. A testament to resilience through the ages.

#prosthetics #prosthesis #culturalheritage #archaeology #anthropology #bonehealth #biomaterials #ancientegypt #surgery #forensicscience #forensics #historyunveiled #innovation #sciart #qualityoflife #britishmuseum #history #engineering

Developers are raising the dead for motorways in Cairo.

“The work is part of a mega-building campaign by President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi that is reshaping the city of some 20 million people. His government has put up massive freeways and flyovers at a furious rate.”

#Cairo #development #destruction 💀

https://apnews.com/article/egypt-cemetery-highways-cairo-city-dead-4b14e617e154fec1ec2dc34f5890d2c9

#Cairo!
(31 hours after having suffered pretty much everything that JFK, Heathrow (and Hartford! Let’s not forget Hartford!) could throw at me 😅

Next stop - #Cairo
(Assuming I ever get there. I’ve been in transit for 25 hours, with detours through delightful Hartford and JFK🙄)

#WIP #screenshot of our #visualart #cgi tribute to the father of #vector #typography. #DEC #VAX11-780 & #URW++ #Ikarus #fontdesign #softwaredevelopment #itHistory and #retrocomputing in #resolutionindependent #vectorquality based on #svg #xml tech rendered with #Cairo #madewithinkscape not #adobeillustrator.

He is a visionairy geek, author, entrepreneur, cofounder of URW+ and "Father of digital Typography"
Peter Karow

Vacation pics from the Pyramids at Giza, along the banks of the Nile, in a courtyard of a mosque in Old Cairo with a 1000 year old minaret, and posing near a Sphinx statue inside the Egyptian museum at Tahrir #Egypt #Cairo #pyramidsAtGiza #AbuElHoul #Sphinx #vacation

Sebastian Usher: #Egypt‬⁩ : Goverment official submits resignation over destruction of historic mausoleums & tombs in cemeteries in ⁦‪#Cairo‬⁩ -Dr Ayman Wanas said his task of making inventory of heritage buildings had become futile ⁧‫#مصر‬⁩ ⁧‫#القاهرة‬⁩ @egypt

https://twitter.com/sebusher/status/1697564679663415655?s=12&t=5bdErQrnzxAFjqIJNbW2Ow

Minor news from my #FreeBSD #Linuxulator userland project: I now succeeded to build a first "dependency monster" (in order to have all features consumers might expect): #cairo. Among other things, required porting all the #Xorg libs first 😉

Living With the Past: Old Cairo

#Cairo is one of the few medieval cities in the world that remains relatively intact. LIVING WITH THE PAST is a filmic portrait of Darb al-Ahmar, a neighborhood in the heart of the old city now facing a process of radical change.

LIVING WITH THE PAST follows several restoration projects in progress in Darb al-Ahmar, including: the Great Gate of Bab Zuwayla (1092 A.D.), the Mosque of Emir Qijmas al-Ishaqithe Church of the Virgin,the Walls of Saladin

And of course this isn’t just about the loss/rewriting of #Cairo #urban heritage and history but also the displacement of people. Razing homes to build highways is a longstanding demographic control technique https://spore.social/@abshlimon/110969382090845611

Here is the first major coverage of the recent manifestations of this destruction of #Cairo in English—belatedly, the New York Times ran a longish article this past weekend. It adopts Sisi’s “modernization” framing and doesn’t center the irreplaceable centuries-old heritage buildings being permanently lost, but it is a thorough overview (no paywall) #egypt #authoritarianism #urbanism https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/world/middleeast/egypt-cairo-city-construction-demolition.html?unlocked_article_code=oH0qwkhG6tgWhCByODs_9nUvKqRi7C-nb_6DOsDhD76HhP3LmQZ85Cp0rp-7Mg8Vgy1NHxZHDtRqUdeJDCQHv1QOGHErDwK3NAUqa3OiVKfZbKGeAFAAXg33sjVtzShDqiuv2FIjq27kqe6u7BoaObVF2J4pbr8elDBYDjB-1HgRZzU0p9SRybyfjzEmft0X_d4SwhX6PqNVJox3z7UJfDosIBdsCsSYwkvhaToU5MVdtc6dJq9Q5tEcSDoYeIB10-vTIEX6paUyJjgW712NMmJtDqHzKsx9iyl4wXW5aY417UR8VKzUWfPuE0FnnlilbGJW3xj8C0q6pELsn5ZDgkBHKmAwvXN_8jVvW7z4YYKNqp12QEhKarvo0A4&smid=url-share

#Cairo is destroying its historical #urban fabric—a power play by Sisi under the pretense of modernization, as it so often is—to a bafflingly muted response from UNESCO and others concerned with cultural preservation. Egyptians have taken to social media to document this destruction. Here is Hussein Omar’s moving piece about the impending demolition of his mother’s and family’s mausoleums in the City of the Dead, a historic cemetery #egypt #urbanism #authoritarianism https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/city-of-the-dead-egypt

"In elementary school, NPR's Malaka Gharib visited her dad in #Cairo each summer. It was hot, there was no AC — but she coped. In this age of global warming, she wonders: How are Egyptians getting by?" #GlobalWarming #HeatWave #ClimateCrisis

#CARTOON: I survived summers in #Egypt with no AC in the '90s. What's it like now? : Goats and Soda : NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now

#COMIC: In the '90s I survived summers in Egypt with no AC. How would it feel now?

In elementary school, NPR's Malaka Gharib visited her dad in #Cairo each summer. It was hot, there was no AC — but she coped. In this age of global warming, she wonders: How are Egyptians getting by?

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/08/27/1195966057/comic-in-the-90s-i-survived-summers-in-egypt-with-no-ac-how-would-it-feel-now https://mas.to/@cnexnews/110961595810308253

#globalwarming #climatechange #news #canada #npr #wildfires #usa #egypt

This is really nice. It's by Nadah El Shazly who's new to me. The whole Album is worth checking

#music #experimental #arabic #egypt #Cairo

https://nadahelshazly.bandcamp.com/track/palmyra

(25 Aug) My Journey with DevOps. Challenges, Learnings and Opportunities.

Ms. Ragini shares 'her' journey, career, work experience and goals ahead as the industry rapidly transforms.

The session is on Friday, 25th August at 8pm Ankara | Riyadh time (1700hrs UTC+0000).

RSVP Cairo Maghreb
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubcairo/events/295548590/

RSVP Ankara Turk
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehub/events/295548604/

RSVP Riyadh Mashreq
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubriyadh/events/295548579/

#DevOps
#DevSecOps
#PlatformEngineering
#SRE
#Ankara
#Egypt
#Cairo
#Riyadh
#Dammam

Egyptian museum #cat #cats #animals #animal #cairo #egypt #travel #photography (Instagram 30.12.2018)

Per the previous post
The Moulid of Sayyida Nafisa (in case you’ve never seen a moulid) #Cairo #Egypt (150 miracles attributed to her)

https://youtu.be/bgRxvAZi11s

President El-Sisi inaugurates Sayyida Nafisa Mosque in #Cairo (with help from the head of the Bohra conmunity)
#Egypt @egypt
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2351636/middle-east

Blaze
Engulfs, destroys,
Dating back centuries;
Ancient ministry: gone
Ash

#cairo #fire #history #architecture #cinquain #poetry

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/blaze-engulfs-historic-ministry-building-central-cairo-2023-08-05/