A military revolution that changed the foundations and worldview of an entire continent and that took place today 63 years ago is a cause for celebration in the form of historic and iconic images. This is the situation of the Egyptian population in July since, since the last 23, the country has completed more than six decades after the great independence revolution of 1952, the first among several nations that make up the African continent.
To remember this fact and also to draw a parallel by demonstrating how the social situation in Egypt was almost calamitous before and shortly after the military coup, the US site Photography News published 13 photos did you consider?Symbol, this transition. All belong to the archives of the Brooklyn Museum Archive and the New York Public Library.
- The few resources in lighting equipment.
- Lenses and even the still technologically limited cameras give the photographs an even more vintage look.
- Bringing out even the most depressing air that is exhibited in portraits.
As in 2011, when President Hosni Mubarak was virtually overthrown from the government following a military coup that mobilized thousands on the streets of Egypt, the same episode occurred in 1952, but this time for reasons. very different policy.
Did the Palestinian war have? Officially? It ended in 1949 when, in defense of the interests of the Palestinians, the Egyptian monarch of the time Farouk I was further subjected to the will of the British Empire, until then colonizer of the region. However, the country practically in economic ruin and the disagreements between the parties were enough for the people to take the problem and solve it in the most violent way possible: by force.
The people of the capital, Cairo, themselves and those in other cities who also increasingly harbored their hatred of the British were “hunting. “the European presence on the territory, culminating in the late July with the deposition of Faruk I and the installation of the provisional command of General Gamal Abdel Nasser, justifying another common name given to the event (Nasserist Revolution).
Currently, the country in Northeast Africa has an estimated population of 83. 4 million people spread over a territory of more than 1 million km2 and has an estimated GDP of $286 billion, or almost 12% of Brazil’s total GDP.
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