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SUMMARY:Donald Childs Endowed Lecture: “Boom Cairo” by Alan Mikhail
DESCRIPTION:\nIn the summer of 1787\, a merchant&rsquo\;s supply of gunp
owder ignited\, rippling an explosion through Cairo&rsquo\;s central com
mercial district. As flames shot out from this store\, buildings toppled
and city blocks were destroyed. The aftermath revealed dozens of dead.
This talk examines the structural conditions that made this disaster and
what the responses to it reveal about Egypt at the end of the eighteent
h century.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hist_dec
l-alan-mikhail/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:In the summer o
f 1787, a merchant’s supply of gunpowder ignited, rippling an expl
osion through Cairo’s central commercial district. As flames shot
out from this store, buildings toppled and city blocks were destroyed. T
he aftermath revealed dozens of dead. This talk examines the structural
conditions that made this disaster and what the responses to it reveal a
bout Egypt at the end of the eighteenth century.
For more details:
https
://events.la.psu.edu/event/hist_decl-alan-mikhail/
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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