The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that ...

In 1805 Mehemet Ali, an Albanian, was appointed viceroy and pasha of Egypt by the Ottoman Sultan. He soon initiated a major ... expeditions to begin the conquest of the Sudan. One was under Ismail ...

Archaeological excavations in the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale, Turkey uncovered a 366-year-old castle bath built by Grand Vizier Köprülü Mehmed Pasha, a significant figure of the Ottoman ...

next to my mother’s coffee cups and dishes that she brought as part of her dowry In my dissertation entitled as “Ahmed Cevdet Pasha: A Connected History of a Late Ottoman Governor, Jurist, and ...