jan 26, 1952 - Cairo Fire-ak
Description:
Fire broke in the ifrangi commerce area in late January 1952. The fire "has come to symbolize...a triumphant national passage, a great moment of reckoning...where ordinary Egyptians reclaimed urban spaces from which they had been previously excluded" (Reynods 181)Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 26, 1952
Now
~ 74 years ago