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Removal of the statue in Midan Galaa

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Removal of the statue in Midan Galaa

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Statue in 10th of Ramadan City, Photo: Ahmed Kamel, 2025

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The sculpture ‚The Dawn of Egypt’, eight-metre high and made of white stone, was erected in 1982 at Midan Galaa. Every day, tens of thousands of people passed by. Popularly known as Galaa Masr, as it stood near the bridge of the same name in el-Nozha and referred to the Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of 1954 on the evacuation of British forces from the Suez Zone. In 2022, the statue had to make way for road construction in Cairo. By courtesy of Marie L. Bishara it now stands completely renovated at this roundabout in 10th of Ramadan City.

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Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO). “The Dawn of Egypt.” Global Heshmat, n.d. Record artwork:5. Version 82de5b4d2f9b (build d691eec046ad7a6e). https://heshmat.zmo.de/artworks/the-dawn-of-egypt/. Accessed YYYY-MM-DD.

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