Thread by @Nervana_1, Delighted to see #Jewish businessman Simon Arzt’s department store is renovated. Another [...]

Nervana Mahmoud

Nervana_1

Delighted to see #Jewish businessman Simon Arzt’s department store is renovated.
Another small, but significant step, towards restoring tolerance in #Egypt
@AlsisiOfficial https://twitter.com/avikaner/status/1301369327057158144

https://twitter.com/avikaner/status/1301369327057158144

Of course, this is #Egypt that Tamara and Co. know nothing about!

Another great renovation project is completed in #Egypt.
The iconic #Sednaoui department store in the heart of #Cairo is now open.
Founded by a #Greek Catholic who escaped #Ottoman oppression
It looks so cool

@ElisaSednaouiF
@AlbertoMiguelF5 https://twitter.com/7adasbelfe3l/status/1301249228967215109

https://twitter.com/7adasbelfe3l/status/1301249228967215109

#Egypt
You can read more about the iconic Egyptian department store Sednaoui
in this @ahramonline post
from 2015 http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/32/138/128924/Folk/Photo-Heritage/Remembering-Sednaoui.aspx

Remembering Sednaoui - Photo Heritage - Folk

In memory of the Sednaoui family, Ahram Online reminisces about the popularity of their department store and what it represented in the cosmopolitan Egypt of a bygone era

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/32/138/128924/Folk/Photo-Heritage/Remembering-Sednaoui.aspx

Finishing this thread by this nostalgic photo of Bata-the Swiss shoe company. It’s branch in #Cairo’s Heliopolis was part of my early childhood

God... I miss tolerant multicultural #Egypt.

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