Category: CULTURE
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Photographers capture loss of Alexandria’s historic architecture over last 20 years
Photographers Mostafa Mamdouh and Abdallah Hanafy took to Alexandria’s decades-old streets with their cameras in a quest to display how time has taken its toll on the city’s historic landmarks over the last two decades. The photos document the replacement of beautifully-crafted buildings with modern, dreary towers between 1996 and 2016. Mamdouh and Hanafy collected…
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Three Greek photographers on Thomson Reuters team to win Pulitzer Prize
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Greek-Cypriot author Georgiou wins 2016 European Literature Award
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On Alexandria’s Fouad Street, some have a longing for the elegant past
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: Along Fouad Street, a Costa coffee shop near old buildings with Italian and French architecture reminds Egyptians that commercial ventures threaten to erase traces of Alexandria’s aristocratic past. Named after King Fouad I, who died in 1936, the street is a throwback to a time when the arts flourished in a cosmopolitan city…