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Shubra by the numbers

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Worth reading

Selected reading and listening on Shubra

Work published elsewhere, picked one at a time, with the reason it is here.

• Article

  أدينا بندردش وبنكتب التاريخ: عن أرشيف شبرا

  A feature on the Shubra Archive, an oral-history project Mena Ibrahim runs out of his own home.

  Mada Masr·2025-06-14·madamasr.com

• Reference

  حي شُبرا

  The governorate's own history of Shubra, from its origins as an island in the Nile.

  Cairo Governorate·cairo.gov.eg