Here we are on the 19th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 19th episode in our tale and the 541st night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 18th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 18th episode in our tale and the 540th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 17th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 17th episode in our tale and the 539th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
On Monday, the world was on a special date, a date with a very special Supermoon.
We had a pink moon.
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| The Not So-Pink-Super Moon |
And yes, it is not really pink in reality.
April’ full moon got its name after the herb pink moss, also known as creeping phlox, moss phlox or mountain phlox, which is one of the earliest spring flowers appearing in the United States according to Space.com.
We do not have this pinky moth in Egypt.
Here we are on the 16th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 16th episode in our tale and the 538th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 15th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 15th episode in our tale and the 537th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 14th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 14th episode in our tale and the 536th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 13th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 13th episode in our tale and the 535th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the 12th night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab.
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the 12th episode in our tale and the 534th night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the eleventh night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the eleventh episode in our tale and the 533rd night of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
And because we are in the heart of historical Islamic Cairo, it was not a big surprise to meet a new ancient mosque in the El-Siyada Zeinab area that gave the scene in Ramadan lanterns market more Ramadan vibe magic.
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| The minaret of Fatima El-Shaqra Mosque |
This ancient mosque caught my eyes when I was in Bab Al-Khalq for the Ramadan lanterns makeshift markets.
Here we are on the tenth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the tenth episode in our tale and the 532nd night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the ninth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the ninth episode in our tale and the 531st night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the eighth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the eighth episode in our tale and the 530th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the fourth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the Seventh episode in our tale and the 529th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the fourth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the sixth episode in our tale and the 528th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
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| Ramada Karim or Kareem from Egyptian Chronicles. |
Second, when I went last week to the famous El-Siyada Zeinab district, I was planning to head to Taht Al Raba’ and Bab El-Khalq famous quarters to see the return of Ramadan Lanterns workshops and its outlets back in business.
Photos showing the workshops working went viral a couple of weeks ago after shutting down last year due to coronavirus partial lockdown policies.
Due to those policies, Cairo governorate cancelled the famous El-Siyada Zeinab Ramadan Market last year too. Only a few vendors defied the order.
To my surprise and on my way, I found the mighty El-Siyada Zeinab Ramadan Market is alive and kicking as if there were no pandemic.
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| Chinese plastic toys are sold as Ramadan lanterns |
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| The vendors and merchants were preparing their merchandise starting afternoon. |
It was still afternoon and so I went to Taht Al-Raba’ and decided to return again when it is darker because the full spectator would there.
Here we are on the fifth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the fifth episode in our tale and the 527th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the fourth night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the fourth episode in our tale and the 526th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the second night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab
First of all, you can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
Second, when it comes to the terms used in this episode.
The “Badia” in Arabic Culture is referred to the desert and land of the nomadic tribes
It is the third episode in our tale and the 525th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
You can listen to the episode after the break.
Here we are on the second night of our Radio Arabian Nights this year.
We will continue our tale for this year, the tale of King Mahorab.
First of all, You can refresh your mind with what happened last night here.
It is the second episode in our tale and the 524th night in the nights of our Egyptian Radio show.
And we are back to this wonderfully blessed time aka the Holy Month of Ramadan.
We are back to Ramadan as the Coronavirus pandemic is still with us threatening our safety and the safety of the people we love.
It is the second Ramadan in a row and hopefully inshallah next Ramadan, the world will be free from that awful pandemic.
Now Most importantly we need a break spiritually to have some rest from all that tension and fear. Ramadan is a good opportunity if we want to.
Ramadan Kareem
Egyptian Chronicles Blog is back with its Ramadan Arabian Nights for the year 2021.
We are back to the realm of the Book of One Thousand and one night and the beautiful voice of Zozo Nabil as legendary actress Zouzou Nabil as Scheherazade.
Produced by Egyptian State Radio, we are back to the One Thousand and One Nights created by Egyptian Radio legend Mahmoud Shaaban aka Papa Sharo.
This year I chose the tale of King Mahorab or rather the saga of King Mahorab.
This year’s tale was written by legendary Taher Abu Fasha. It is not an original story from One Thousand and One Nights but you will see here the amazing talent of Abu Fasha as fiction and fantasy based on history and folklore writer.
Now after the break you can hear our first episode or rather episode No.523 in one of Egypt’s longest radio shows ever produced.
From 60 years ago, a Russian young man called Yuri Gagarin succeeded in go into Space and the rest was a world-known history.
The Soviet Cosmonaut truly made history in Space despite his short life that ended in a tragic accident on earth
The first man to go to space in recorded history. It was a huge moment but unfortunately, it was covered or stained by politics, West/East Space race or rather the US/Soviet race
Only now we look to it beyond that stupid polarization and propaganda machine I suppose. Or not so much as the tensions are still there.
Anyhow in Egyptian Chronicles, we will not look into Gagarin's historical trip to space but rather at his trip to Egypt.
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| Yuri Gagarin in one of his coolest poses ever in front of the Sphinx |
Yes, Yuri Gagarin visited Egypt in 1962 as part of that world tour following his historical space flight and he had a blast in Egypt visiting Cairo, Giza, Alexandria and Luxor.
Another monthly post as part of the COVID-19 coverage in Egyptian Chronicles.
This time it is a quick look into COVID-19 numbers in Egypt after 14 months since its arrival to the country in February 2020.
Now we have got two months to compare with the numbers of 2020, specifically February and March.
This is an interactive graph. You can see each year and month by clicking on the tabs.
This is the time of our monthly post about the coronavirus pandemic and its numbers in graphs.
The official numbers of coronavirus cases in Egypt continued to increase in March 2021 following February 2021.
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| Egyptian woman getting a drive-in test in Cairo by Jean Nagah |
In March 2021 people already were warning that we were on the brink of the third wave of Coronavirus in April starting the mid of month when Ramadan Kicks off when we began witnessing more cases in our social circles again.
Disclaimer: According to Minister of Health Hala Zayed in early January, the official numbers of cases represent between 10%-15% of the real number of cases worldwide Egypt included.
Now to the graphs of March numbers.
First, the daily cases of coronavirus in Egypt.
And Egypt succeeded in transferring its 22 ancient Kings and Queens’ mummies from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo to the National Egyptian Civilization Museum “NECM” in a huge spectator with big fanfares.
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| Modern Egyptians say hi to ancient Egyptians from their balconies "Abdullah Ewais for Masrawy" |
Here is a video of the parade organized by the Egyptian Government, mainly the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Ministry of Culture.
One thing sure, the parade was successful and earned the admiration of many.
On Saturday, Cairo is on a date with one unique procession.
Cairo will witness a parade of 22 ancient Egyptian Kings and Queens as they or rather their mummies are being transferred from the Egyptian Museum of Cairo in Downtown’s Tahrir Square to the Newly inaugurated The National Egyptian Civilization Museum “NECM” in Old Cairo’s Fustat.
They are transferred to a new home
They are going to a new home now after more than 100 years in The Egyptian Museum of Cairo as it is undergoing a huge renovation project sponsored by the EU and a bunch of European museums above them the British Museum.
The Mummies are reportedly to receive better and advanced care in the NECM because that care can’t be provided in the Tahrir Museum with its old structure.
The parade will take place at Sunset, at about 6 PM and it will take only 45 minutes but it will be a procession to be remembered. It will start at the renovated Tahrir square.
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| The Tahrir square after renovation "Egyptian Cabinet" |
Those kings and queens from the Modern Kingdom's 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties were discovered in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.
They are: King Seqenenre Taa , Queen Ahmose Neferati,King Amenhotep I, Queen Merit Amun, King Thutmose I, King Thutmose II, Queen Hatshepsut, King Thutmose III, King Amenhotep II, King Thutmose IV, King Amenhotep III, Queen Tiye, King Seti I, King Rameses II, King Merenpath, King Seti II, King Siptah, King Ramesses III, King Ramesses V, King Ramses IV, King Ramses VI, Ramesses IX
The mummies of the 18 kings and 4 queens will be carried on special vehicles with their names inscribed on them.
A new month under the coronavirus pandemic. It is April and in its half of it, the Holy Month of Ramadan will commence and observed by more than one billion Muslim around the globe during what is believed to be the third wave of coronavirus.
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| From the preparation of Ramadan in Cairo in 2020 "Mohamed El-Shahed for AFP" |
Last year we had our first Ramadan under partial lockdown that many did not respect or follow its role. The result was catastrophic officially and unofficially in numbers as from the second or third week of Ramadan 2020, we had a surge in the cases.
The highest numbers of coronavirus cases recorded and cases of coronavirus fatalities officially were in those weeks between May and June during Ramadan 2020 and after it.
It was the peak of coronavirus’ first virus in Egypt.
Now officials are worried the third wave of coronavirus will be in the upcoming weeks during Ramadan as well as the Orthodox Easter when Egyptians meet up for social gatherings.
This time the live coverage will extend to four weeks instead of two weeks to make it easier for me honestly because the second half will be during Ramadan as you may have known.
Please stay safe, stay at home and get vaccinated.
Here is the live update