Tag: Cairo
Yasmine Ayyoub, a psychologist from Gaza, managed to escape the war-torn region with her husband to Cairo, thanks to donations from readers and a company facilitating their passage through the Rafah border.
The article discusses the ancient Jewish community in Cairo, Egypt.
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Search this new list of Jewish family names from Cairo, Alexandria, Baghdad, Damascus, Aleppo and Beirut
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch, a retired Ashkenazi diplomat, has compiled a list of Jewish family names from various cities in the Arab world before the Mizrahi exodus in the mid-20th century.
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Two Poems - "Eager for big words the woman whispered / Do you still love me / Do you see the death squads of tradition"
This article discusses the life and poetry of Joyce Mansour, a Jewish poet of Syrian descent.
Amira Oron, Israels new ambassador to Egypt, has been working to reestablish diplomatic activities after the position had been vacant for over a year.
In this podcast episode, Israel Fellow Nimrod Novik discusses the recent meeting between Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The Jewish communities of Egypt, once vibrant and numerous, are now dwindling and on the brink of extinction.
Despite a once vibrant Jewish presence in Egypt dating back to ancient times, the Jewish communities in Alexandria and Cairo are now dwindling, with fewer than fifty Jews remaining, many elderly and intermarried.