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In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha In the land of the phara...

In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha

In the land of the pharaohs: a short history 

In attempting to write a history, I am quite aware of the difficulties which beset my path, inasmuch as there are so many " histories " of Egypt. Many of these histories are wise, and not a few, otherwise; but each and everyone for the most part is prejudicial to Home Rule in Egypt, and is wanting in that chief historical element^impartiahty.

For upwards of a quarter of a century I have noted the continual growth of misrepresentation in the English Press touching Egyptian affairs, and the Roosevelt Guildhall peroration has proved the last straw of a most weighty bundle.

That I am qualified to deal adequately with the period under consideration, there need be little doubt. In the first place, I am a native Egyptian with a full knowledge of the aims of my fellow-countrymen, and consequently in sympathy with their sufferings — socially and politically. In the second place, not only was I in the city of Alexandria during its bombardment, but the fact that my father was an officer

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Author:  Mohamed Duse

Publication date:  1911

Remark  London, Stanley Paul

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