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As the first shots of World War I were being fired , Egyptian culture was changing forever . For the preceding 40 eld , Egypt had lived as a free commonwealth – ruled , on newspaper publisher , by the British government , but in practice appropriate to go under the normal of its own loss leader and to do its own faiths .
This Egypt , at the sunrise of the twentieth century , was a wildly dissimilar berth from the one we know today . This was the Egypt that inspire pulp fiction epics and comic books , where snake charmers performed on the street of Cairo and merchants rode from town to town on the backs of camel .
It was also an Egypt that was , like the Egypt of today , overpoweringly Muslim . Egypt , during the Khedivate full stop ( 1867 - 1914 ) , was count an Islamic state . It was a place where women went out with their faces veiled , children learned to read by canvas the Quran , and devout man collect in the courtyards of great mosque .
But it was an Egypt whose refinement was slowly wear away away . With British scout group occupying the nation , the people of Egypt were being pushed to adopt westerly culture like never before . Egyptian culture was changing – entering into a new , forward-looking earth controlled by Western major power .
The Egyptian Khedivate did n’t last forever . By 1911 , the British were already uneasy with the way that the Egyptians had choose to rule themselves . And , when World War I broke out , they force out the Egyptian leader and instal one of their own .
Egypt was now no longer an independent land in any sense of the Word of God . For the 40 years that play along , Egypt would be ruled by the British — and Egyptian culture would never be the same again .
The productive and vibrant finish of the Egyptian Khedivate has changed – but , today , it still lives in on photographs . These images give a last glimpse into Egypt as it once was , just before the British business drag in in .
Move through Egyptian history with theseFrancis Frith photos from the 19th centuryand these picture from theswingin ' ' sixty .
