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Sep 2, 2023

For those interested in Cairo and its monuments, I’ve been experimenting with creating this website. It tells stories of some of the lesser known sites, intertwining the Mamluk, Ottoman and modern eras. I’ll add to it when possible.

exploringhistoriccairo.squarespace.com

Exploring Historic Cairo

It's believed to be the 1st time the US has used the new PrSM missile: a strike in Iran that Iranian officials say killed 21 civilians. @airwars found it sprayed lethal metal pellets as far as 170 m from the center of the strike. By @FrankelJulia

A damaged car sits beside a wall bearing numerous impact marks near the site of a strike in Lamerd, southern Iran, Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (Alireza Ameri/Tasnim News Agency via AP)

New US missile appears to have left wide path of death and destruction in Iranian city, report says

Smuggling into Gaza is booming - cigarettes but also essentials like spare parts, medicines, X-ray machines. Merchants, smugglers make millions and huge bribes go to the same Israeli soldiers enforcing restrictions. An AP investigation by @sammymagdy

A Palestinian vendor offers bottles of diesel for sale in al-Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Prices soar as Gaza smuggling booms. Officials, soldiers and middlemen are accused of cashing in

The Israeli military is quickly building a long earthen barrier in Gaza, separating the more than half of the territory that it holds from the rest, where Palestinians are crowded, sat imagery shows. With @FrankelJulia

This satellite image from Planet Labs PBC shows a section of an earthen barrier being built by the Israeli military, right side of image moving top to bottom, in the central Gaza Strip, July 1, 2026. At left is the Maghazi refugee camp, and on the other side are homes demolished by the military. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

Israel’s claims over double tap strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital that killed 22 people contradict the sequence of events on the ground. It says it targeted a Hamas camera, but a Reuters cameraman was the first victim killed.

apnews.com

Israeli military says strikes on Gaza hospital targeted a Hamas camera, without providing evidence

The Israeli military says its double strike on a Gaza hospital that killed 20 people targeted what it believed was a Hamas surveillance camera. But witnesses and health officials say the first strike...

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