Islamic Cairo- Series 8: Kasr El Nil (Nile Palace) Room with a View

Dear Sahar,

I have one comment here. You mentioned the place called
"Beau Lac". I know that it has been around since long that
Boulaq is named by the French as the "Beautiful Lake". This
is not true by all means.

I know that Napoleon's geographers and surveyors have
written it on 1799 on their maps and in their books as
"Boulaq". If it had anything to do with "Beau Lac", they
would have been the first to notice it and they were the
great men of history and science and French Nationalism!

Boulaq was the major port of Cairo and Zamalek facing it
was called Geziret Boulaq and -as written on historical
map-- Petite Branche du Nil.

Boulaq elDakrour village seemed to be --at the time--at the
western bank of the nile across from zamalek (geziret
boulaq) and Boulaq. The little village was next to another
small village called Doqqeh (on the nile too at the time).

Cairo was 10-15 times as big as Boulaq (Boulaq was huuuuge
on the shape of a triangle). Boulaq was 20 times as big as
the villages of Doqqeh and Boulaq elDakror.

BTW, I read every word you write and I am totally
impressed. It seems like you mention things that I know
much about but never related them that way and see a
totally new picture. Is it your financial analytical
background? ;)

Salaam,
Mohamed Mabrouk

--- sahar elsayed wrote:
>
> Islamic Cairo- Series 8: Kasr El Nil (Nile Palace) Room
> with a View
>
> In her song, Never Give Up, Barbara Streisand says, ?a
> room with a view has only a fool there??. Well, it was
> Mohammed Ali Pasha who first thought of living on the
> Nile. He built a huge palace for his daughter, Zeinab, to
> live there, and named it, Nile Palace, or Kasr El Nile.
>
> Later, Saeed Pasha brought the palace down, and built a
> grandiose palace in its place. This later became the
> military domicile; Thakanat Kasr El Nile. In the late
> forties, the palace was replaced with the Nile Hilton
> Hotel, and the Arab League building.
>
> Ibrahim Pasha, son of Mohammed Ali, ordered Engineer
> Bonfour (remark: I?m not sure of the spelling) to remove
> all the rubble and heaps of trash falling between the
> Nile and areas like Beau Lac, Fustat and Cairo. These
> were replaced with promenades, gardens and parks. Among
> the highlands which disappeared were Nassereya, Daher and
> Faggalla.
>
> One more thing: Faggala was named as such, because it was
> all fields of radish! Yes, radish (Fegl ya3ni!), north of
> Bab El 7adeed. Whenever the Nile level would rise, it
> would weaken the houses, hence came the need to clear
> this area.
>
> Personal Remark: So the interest in a view of the Nile,
> instigated by the ruling elite, also enticed people to
> associate a Nile view with social status. Shamefully, it
> was approached in an ad hoc manner, ruining the complete
> view of the Nile.
>
> Research based on the book: A7ya2 AlQahira Alma7rouossa
> by Abbas El Tarabeely
>
>
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