Egypt at Life Archive

Of course you may have heard the wonderful news that the Google Images website now hosts a very rare Life Magazine photo collection.

I am mad about old photos and as soon as I read the news I began to play around with the new site. Let us say I became addicted to this wonderful archive. I found wonderful photos of Egypt chronicling some parts of its modern history from the 1940s till the 1970s. Wonderful photos about life in Cairo in the 1940s and 1950s. I found that wonderful set from the construction of the high dam till its inauguration.

Anyhow I search for our country's rare images and I found those rare and lovely collections and photos :

The Egyptian army commanders in the 1940s needed a diet with my all due respect to them.”

The exterior of the Egyptian Embassy in Washington D.C in 1943

The first secretary general of the Arab League Abdel Rahman Azzam Pasha, this photo he was still the minister of social affairs.

King Farouk and an artistic shot from the Abdeen Palace

All the king’s men ,the second one from the left is his bodyguard and his close friend Omar Pasha Fatahi. “yes he was much older than in the TV series”

Prince Mohamed Abdel Manam in Switzerland in 1946

Ladies to sit here if they want to see that match between the Egyptian army units in the Presence of King Farouk in Heliopolis Club in 1940s

Um Kalthoum in August 1956 in a recording session for the Egyptian Radio

A close up shot for Thuma while she singing and I love her earrings

President Nasser walking in his home garden with his baby son “Abd El-Hameed” “ You know it is strange that this photo was in 1957 and yet they host Abd El-Hameed to speak about the time of the Royalty !! Abd El-Hakim is a business man and has from time to time his own financial legal problems”

President Nasser on his first visit to Moscow in 1958, the man giving us his back was Khrushchev

Nasser praying with Akram Hourani of Syria in a Mosque in Moscow in 1958 !!

Nasser and Fidel in the UN at the big apple.”The axis of evil then”

Mrs Nasser with Mrs Khrushchev in Cairo, the First Lady of Egypt with the first lady of the U.S.S.R in 1964.

        

On the Left an Egyptian Reception for Khrushchev in Egypt in 1964 and on the right Mr. Ibrahim Zaki of the Aswan dam project .

Chou En Lai and on his left General Mohamed Fawzy.

The mayor of Cairo Mohamed Shahine Bey and his wife in 1940s

This is the Tahrir Square in the past , can you imagine it, some of the buildings are still there !!

Egyptian twin belly dancers “Liz and Min” dancing in some American Nightclub in 1950s {I think they were Jews ,they also appeared in some Ismail Yassin film}

Iraqi Prime Minister and later President Ahmed Hassan Al Baker reception in Cairo in 1962 “God I do not like those little children with flowers !! I think in this visit he brought with him Saddam Hussein :( “

This Egyptian lady was working in the TeleMisr factory. I am from the generation that still remembers the TeleMisr Television set, the set that used to be manufactured in Egypt.

 According to Life Magazine, half of the employees and workers in that factory during that time were women. Telemisr is still there to my surprise.

To make your life easier click on the links below :

• For Egypt Click here.
• For Cairo  Click here.
• For King Farouk Click here For President Nasser Click here.
• For Suez Click here. [Includes photos of the Suez Crisis and war in 1956]
• For Luxor Click here.
• For Aswan Click here. [Includes wonderful photos of high dam construction and inauguration]
• For Port Said Click here.
• For Giza Click here.
• For Egyptians Click here.
• For Egyptian Click