Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil: A Guide to the Permanent Exhibition in the Sabil Muhammad 'Ali Pasha in Al-Aqqadin, Cairo

Muhammad 'Ali Pasha and His Sabil: A Guide to the Permanent Exhibition in the Sabil Muhammad 'Ali Pasha in Al-Aqqadin, Cairo

A colorful account of the life of one of Egypt's most charismatic rulers and of the public water dispenser he built in Cairo

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Agnieszka Dobrowolska is a conservation architect who has worked on many archaeological and conservation sites in Egypt, and directed a number of architectural conservation projects in Historic Cairo for the American Research Center in Egypt. Among these, the conservation of the Sabil of Muhammad 'Ali Pasha kept her busy for six years. Khaled Fahmy is associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history in the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, his army and the making of modern Egypt (AUC Press, 2002), as well as numerous studies on the social and cultural history of nineteenth-century Egypt.