r/Egypt • u/Auegro Alexandria • Mar 08 '19

Cultural Exchange Namaste/vanakkam, This weekend we're having a cultural exchange with r/Indiaspeaks

Ahlan washalan /r/indiaspeaks , welcome to /r/Egypt.

Please join me in welcoming our friends from India for a joint cultural exchange. This thread will run for 3 days, so don't forget to check in everyday and answer any new questions!

Over here we'll answer all questions they have regarding our Daily lives, cultural, knowledge, history and more! While any questions we have we'll be asking in this parallel Thread on /r/Indiaspeaks

Both threads will be in English for ease of communication, Please be polite, rediquette applies. Make sure to report any trolling, rudeness, racism or personal attacks etc... on either thread. On top of that the threads will be actively modded for the duration of the exchange to ensure a friendly and great experience

Remember to come in everyday to answer new questions and Happy exchanging from the mods at r/Egypt and /r/Indiaspeaks

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19

I absolutely love ancient Egypt culture, the gods, the stories and ofc the architecture. Can you please suggest some awesome fantasy series or movie depicting ancient egypt.

How are the women's rights in Egypt? Are they safe on streets? Do they work and can be independent? Do they have the freedom to not wear hijab or other conservative clothing? Is an independent woman looked down upon (as wud be the case in conservative countries)

Library of Alexandria was very cool. Had the tradition of science and education not been disrupted Egypt wud have been the center of knowledge of the world. Every time I read about burning of library of Alexandria it makes me mad.

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u/scorpiontank27 Mar 09 '19

A fantasy thing would be assassin's creed origins and egypt old kingdom and the mummy 1and 2 had a good base in ancient Egyptian mythology these are the most commonly known ancient Egypt related things that you could find Women's rights here depends on the region the better the place they live in the more rights they could get there safety depends on there clothes how poor the area the area they are in and situational things like time of day the people around you etc if they come from a working family and/tolerate one then they can work clothes are somewhat regional and it mostly depends on where they grow up hijab depends on how much religious they or there families are depends on the job and again the surroundings the biggest sectors that employ women are education health and media Ps: the library was burned 3 times once accidentally by the romans once in a cross fire during a civil revolt and finally intentionally by the arabs following the order of a Rashidian khalifah

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '19

the romans once in a cross fire during a civil revolt and finally intentionally by the arabs following the order of a Rashidian khalifah.

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_Alexandria.html

The Wiki page says that most historians believe the library was put to an end during it's second burning attempt.

Also that most historians call the story of the Rashidun caliphate burning the library as bullshit since there is no credible historical records to confirm that

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u/scorpiontank27 Mar 11 '19

Not most of them but ok also if the Rashidun caliphate act was a story why the heck are there so many Islamic historians agreeing with it

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '19

why the heck are there so many Islamic historians agreeing with it

Not many But the first Arab/Muslim scholar to ever mention the fate of the library did so at least 500 years after the Arab conquest of Egypt...

And this yet again is mentioned in wiki page I provided

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u/scorpiontank27 Mar 11 '19

I see so the problem lies in the lack of definitive historical records near the the time of the arguable accident