The Khedive of Egypt himself, squat, fat and bearded, came personally to Paris to call on Emperor Napoleon III and to invite the Empress to the party; Eugénie was pleased to accept. It was a ...

After a string of rulers over the next few decades, Isma’il Pasha (nicknamed Isma’il the Magnificent) came to power in 1863 as Khedive (Viceroy) of Egypt and Sudan. Ismai’l Pasha was the ...

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The holy month of Ramadan has a unique cultural flavour in Egypt, and among its special traditions is the firing of the ...

Story: After the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, the ruler of Egypt, the Khedive Ismail, promised the United States an obelisk. Henry Gorridge, a lieutenant commander of the U.S. Navy ...

The most widely accepted story traces the Ramadan cannon back to 15th-century Egypt during the reign of Sultan Khosh Qadam.