Abandoned Arabesque chairs in the Nasserist Social Housing district of Port Said, Egypt
10:39 am • 6 May 2013 • View comments
One of Shaftesbury Buildings in Port Said now hosts an HSBC Bank, Egypt
10:35 am • 6 May 2013 • 3 notes • View comments
“Before going back to college, i knew i didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.”
— Assata Shakur (via rosadefuego)
(Source: suzijamil, via matryushka)
5:37 pm • 5 May 2013 • 509 notes • View comments
Casa Italia, what used to be an Italian Culture House in Port Said, right next to an architectural catastrophe directly overlooking the Suez Canal.
5:23 pm • 5 May 2013 • 1 note • View comments
The entrance to the now abandoned Casa Italia, still the property of the Italian Embassy - Port Said, Egypt
5:23 pm • 5 May 2013 • 2 notes • View comments
The upcoming intersection was considered to be the segregation line between the European neighborhood and the Arab hood in Colonial times. Port Said, Egypt
4:41 pm • 5 May 2013 • 4 notes • View comments
This eagle with obvious ancient Egyptian influences is painted all over Port Said. The football suggests that it’s the logo of Port Said’s football Ultras, but a lot of the times the football is replaces by a crescent & 3 stars.
4:32 pm • 5 May 2013 • 3 notes • View comments
Loving some of the shop signage in Port Said, Egypt
4:29 pm • 5 May 2013 • 3 notes • View comments
Three distinct architectural styles on the very same street - Port Said, Egypt
4:29 pm • 5 May 2013 • 5 notes • View comments