It is not rare to be a geographer and adventurer, geographer and traveller, and sometime geographer and/or over-seas trader. But being a geographer and a royal prince is a unique case in the historical records.
Atef MohammedPrince Omar Toussoun (1872-1944) belongs to that period of time when Egypt underwent contradictory ambitions and geopolitical conflicts.
He was born in the northern port city of Alexandria, at a time when the British occupation had been present in Egypt for a decade. The British staked their claim to the country after their naval fleet had stormed Egyptian forts, and toppled the out-of-date fortifications on …read more
Source:: Daily News Egypt
