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Egyptian city where the poster's British grandmother lived with her Egyptian grandfather in the 1960s, documented in great-grandfather's journal entries.

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"Egyptian girls who go to one of the lycée françaises in Cairo and are super westernised, post idpol instagram infographics etc meanwhile their dads are crazy rich and literally Muslim Brotherhood w sketchy drugs/weapons businesses in subsaharan africa where half the shareholders are israeli"
Niche arab archetypes · denis-diderot · ↑338 · 2023-09-01
"Israel emits, to a range of hundreds of kilometers, GPS signals from the ground saying, 'you are in Beirut' and 'You are in Cairo'. If you're in the Eastern Med, bound for Cyprus or Turkey, your plane is getting spoofed."
"the Lavon Affair (1954): bombings in Alexandria and Cairo that were attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood, but then exposed after one device went off prematurely on a perpetrator."
"In the mid-60s my mother was born in the village where my Egyptian family lives and farms. A year or so later, my great-grandfather flew from Canada to Egypt to meet his new granddaughter. He's always kept thorough journals, but reading his perspective on Cairo and describing what he saw in the mid "
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