Films and Audio on Egypt in the 50s and 60s

Some Egyptian multimedia links, both audio and video, that may interest my fellow old Cairo hands (though more for the Arabic speakers, though the video may work for non-Arabists), all from Zenobia at Egyptian Chronicles: and most of them from her YouTube channel.

Via Zenobia,who seems to have a real interest in the exiled royal family and has some 43 videos on various Egyptian historical subjects. Here are some key ones:

The initial communiqué on July 23, 1952, the first announcement. Sadat made it so I assume this is he. (Audio only.)

Muhammad Naguib's first address to Egypt:

• King Farouq's Funeral, Rome, 1965:

Capture of the Egyptian warship Ibrahim in 1956 Suez War:



Inauguration of Cairo Tower in 1961:



She also has a whole series of videos of King Farouq in exile. If that sounds interesting, go and enjoy. I always figured Farouq to be, as he himself seemed to acknowledge, about as powerless in the end as the Kings in the pack of cards, but for those interested, there are a lot of videos at her site.