History

With the French gone and Egypt in chaos, an Albanian officer named Mohammed Ali wins the hearts of Egyptians and is proc...

The Ottomans plot to depose Muhammad Ali, the Mamluks march on Cairo and are crushed, and Britain seizes Alexandria in 1...

Alexandrian resistance fights the English, Fraser's troops are lured into Rashid and crushed, and a lost messenger leave...

Muhammad Ali crushes the English force at al-Hamad and retakes Alexandria. Then a merchant's murder in a Cairo market se...

Muhammad Ali outmanoeuvres Omar Makram and the popular leadership, then lures the Mamluks to the Citadel in 1811 and wip...

Muhammad Ali builds a modern army of Egyptians, brings in the French colonel Joseph Seve, and in 1820 sends his son Isma...

King Nimr lures Ismail Pasha, Muhammad Ali's youngest son, into a trap in Sudan, burns him alive, and triggers al-Daftar...

Muhammad Ali's war with the Wahhabis began as an unwelcome Ottoman order, and the story of Ibn Taymiyyah's legacy that t...

Tusun Pasha's campaign against the Wahhabis, the fall of Mecca and Medina, and the revolt that nearly cost Muhammad Ali...

Ibrahim Pasha lays siege to Diriyah, the Wahhabi stronghold, and after four months of resistance he storms it, ending th...

After the destruction of the fleets at Navarino, Egypt withdraws from Greece and turns on the Levant, taking Acre and sh...

Ibrahim storms Acre, answers the Serasker's boast at Belen by smashing his army and seizing his French adviser, and the...