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How Napoleon’s Egypt campaign sparked a printing revolution in the Arab world

  • Greatest legacy of the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt lies not in what the French took, but in what they left behind
  • Rare books on display at Abu Dhabi International Book Fair reveal printing roots of Egypt’s modern intellectual awakening
By Jonathan Gornall ·

‘Sock ball,’ once a poor man’s game in Egypt, now a football celebration

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