HIST 340 Lecture 8: HIST 340 Lecture 8
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1919 revolution in egypt that led to minimal independence from gb in 1922. Focusing on the period that followed this, in 1923 the constitution was written. For many people, modernity involved things that people were happy with, like trams, railroads, and so on. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, this was the best time for egyptian cinema that travelled very well. These lms would have been watched by people across the middle east. By the late 1950s, egypt produced and exported a lot of books, newspapers, and journals, that made colloquial egyptian understood all over the arab world. Studied at al azhar and the university. Become a dean of arts and a professor, became the president of alexandria university (1942) He lost his eye sight at the age of 3. He learned to read and write and memorised the quran. He then went to al azhar before switching to the newly opened secular university.
