Protests in Egypt, 1919


When the nationalist Saad Zaghlul, soon to be Egypt's first elected Prime Minister, sailed up the Nile in 1919 to agitate against the British, they prevented him from landing - to little avail: his undaunted supporters on the river bank staged fervent demonstrations as shown above.


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