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Here you go @TIME . The Person of the Year is the Gazan civilian, who has persevered through genocide.

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Hues of Cairo

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You can see the World through Cairo’s architecture.

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There are 8 minarets in this photo dating back to Fatimid, Bahri Mamluk, Burji Mamluk, and Ottoman times. Can you find them all?

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A Blue Remembrance

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Blue Cairo 💙💛

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Evolution of Minarets in Cairo تطور المئاذن في القاهرة

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The Palace of the Lost Prince

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Is Cairo on your bucket list?

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The Dome of the Nile

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The inscription read: In the name of Allah, the Beneficent Merciful. There is no god but He, the Ever-living, the Self-subsisting by Whom all subsist. There is no god but He, so call upon Him with sincerity in your faith. Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds. (…)

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This palace portal is digitally restored. It dates back to 1337. Here lived two of the most powerful amirs of both the Bahri and Burgi Mamluk eras.

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In less than half an hour, they liberated the stone from the bricks and mortar. The date inscribed on it showed it was 1,187 years old. 11 centuries.

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An Andalusian-style stucco arch at the Qalawun Complex in Cairo.

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The Beauty of al-Azhar

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Dr. Mostafa Sadek and a group of young Cairo enthusiasts were walking among the rubble, when he glimpsed engravings of ancient Kufi Arabic on one of the demolished walls.

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The Dome of Shadows

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Breathe

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Cairo: a sigh of blue, with the warmest hue. #minarets #mosques #sunsets #cairo

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Shocked, he called the others and they all rushed to it. Upon closer inspection, they saw a slab of stone built into a wall. The Arabic inscription on it was undoubtedly ancient. How did they know? The letters had no dots. 📸 Hossam Abd El Azeem

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The Stone sighed a breath of Blue And the City echoed of Andalusia

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There is no god but He & all Praise is to Him in the Beginning & the Hereafter. He is the Judgment & to Him you will be brought back. This grave is for Imamah daughter of Muhammad son of Yahya son of Khalad son of Yahya who died on the tenth night of Zhul Hijjah of 229 (844).

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He rested under the mishkah, and watched the sun as it set, casting its shadows upon the iwan.

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The Sultan’s Balcony

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More from the City of 1,000 minarets. This photograph has 16 minarets. Bahri Mamluk, Burji Mamluk, and Ottoman. Can you find all of them?

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A Dream of a Blue Window

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Can you smell the Breeze That blew from Maghreb to Andalusia?

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The Emerald Palace

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Not even Cairo’s Blue Sun Could Illuminate the Palace of Shadows The Windows would shatter its Light Into a Thousand Constellations

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Did you know that Cairo’s minarets were illuminated at night by lamps?

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Earth and Heaven

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Our friends on the ground visit the area frequently to try and document or save whatever they can before it’s lost. And just a few days ago, they made a shocking find.

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Cairo 💛💙

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Come, look at my Blue City Woven of Golden Hills and Valleys Dusty Songtowers and Alleys

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The Warmth of Cairo

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The group gave the ancient tombstone to the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Dr. Mostafa remarked that the stone was the one to look and call upon them to set free it. And that it should be in a museum where people will remember lady Imamah and recite the Fatihah for her.

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The Song of Sunset

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Heavens of Cairo

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The Minaret of the Persian Mamluk مئذنة المملوك الفارسي . #cairo #persia #iran #minaret #islamicart

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Can you hear the Whisper of the Winds?

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سماء السلطان الظاهر برقوق The Sky of Sultan al-Zahir Barquq

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Cairo’s Golden Sunset

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A Dream Written on Wings

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Do you see the Constellations?

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The Egyptian Sun Blushing before the Night

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Search for Me Amid the Towers of Dust

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The City of a Thousand Minarets مدينة الألف مئذنة

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Wings of Cairo

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أسقف مسجد السلطان المؤيد شيخ Ceilings of the Mosque of Sultan al-Mu’ayyad Sheikh

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We’ve recreated a part of a painting by Eugène Girardet (1853 - 1907) called the The Caliphs’ Tombs, showing the Desert of the Mamluks in the 19th century.

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Life in a Souq #Cairo

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The City of a Thousand Minarets مدينة الألف مئذنة 💙 #Cairo

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The Desert of Love is very far away,

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Cairo on a warm Friday

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Deep within the Stones I carved a Thousand Poems

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The Night of the Sultan

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As the Sun died I witnessed a Million Stars

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The Sultan had sent with him to Medina 25 poetry reciters to recite for him poems in love of the Prophet (pbuh) and to uplift him spiritually. 📸 @Zirrar_

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Welcome to our World

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The Sultan’s Wind Dome Was built in the Heavens And rested amid a Garden of Clouds Each stone was a Whispered Breeze Cemented by a Blue mortar Of rain and hail When it was completed A Golden Bolt of Lightning was brought To chisel upon the Dome The Silence of the Morning Mist

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Its columns are from Ancient Egypt or date back to Greco-Roman times.

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Abdullah Bek was born in Nablus, Palestine. Sultan Abdulmajid personally commissioned him to work on the Prophet’s Mosque after its dome had collapsed. 📸 Nayrouz News

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But Abdullah Bek also wrote the calligraphy for the kiswa of the Honored Kaaba. This man’s hands and breath decorated the holiest site in Islam. 📸 Madrasat al-Khutut al-Arabiyya al-Khalil Agha

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I praise the One who has made For me a Dwelling in the Heavenly Heights . Imam al-Ghazali . Al-Rifai Mosque (1869, 1912)

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Eid Mubarak!

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You are a Thousand blooming Constellations

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Sultan in Blue

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The Heart stands at God’s Gate

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Thus Shone the Cedar Tree

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مئذنة مدرسة السلطان الناصر محمد ابن قلاوون Details of the Minaret of Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun

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Ramadan Mubarak

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Universe within a grain of Sand

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Love came and spread like blood in my veins . Amir Khusraw

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The portal is the only surviving one in Cairo of a Mamluk palace, so we restored it to see its hidden beauty. This is what it may have looked like during the old times. A true gem of Mamluk art.

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Even from afar, The Old Song Towers Dominated the Horizon. Watching over the City They constantly called Upon the Faithful To Gather in Remembrance

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الشهيد

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Gaze up at the Constellations of Love #Cairo

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I climbed the Tower of Samarra And Gazed toward the Horizon There I saw Cairo Before it came to be Through the Arches of Andalusia

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The portals of Heaven unfold for You #Cairo

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مصر • Egypt

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His calligraphy is marked by balance and delicate dynamism. 📸 Madrasat al-Khutut al-Arabiyya al-Khalil Agha

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The Young Sultan gazed Into the Mamluk arch Past Time's Horizon And bowed his head To the Old Sultan As he placed his hand On his heart . #cairo #oldcairo #mamluk #collage #arch #dome

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The Amir still ran, Into the ruined walls of a Gateless Mosque. Under its Arches, He was buried in Silence, As in a Tomb. He gazed at the Tower. It had slept for Three Thousand Years.