I want to read this guy's travel diaries when he was in America. He was at Victoria's funeral and traveled all around Europe and the Americas. I'm fighting with Gemini to find a digitized Arabic copy to translate but it's not going well. It seems that it's at a museum in Cairo and while some of his other travels have been digitized, his travels to America haven't been.How do Egyptians now feel about this guy? If I were to go to Cairo and ask to take pictures of this are they gonna tell me to shut up and go eat a burger or are they pretty welcoming of American shitbags asking questions about the old monarchyAlternatively, anyone in Egypt willing to go and take pictures of parts of this book for me? It sounds absolutely fascinating and like a truly unique perspective on my country during a time that I'd like to understand better about my country. As to why I think his perspective might be neat, here's what Gemini bullshitted based on reviews or comments about it:His final thoughts boiled down to three main points:The "Machine" vs. The "Soul": He was awestruck by American efficiency (the "Machine"), but he concluded that the "New World" was becoming spiritually hollow. He feared that if Egypt modernized exactly like the U.S., it would lose its "Eastern soul" and hospitality.The Paradox of Liberty: He wrote extensively about how "free" Americans claimed to be, yet he observed they were "slaves to the clock" and to their jobs. As a royal, he found the frantic American pace of life to be a different kind of "un-freedom" compared to the traditional life in the Orient.The Blueprint for Egypt: His final "call to action" for his readers was that Egypt should adopt American science and military discipline (which he studied at West Point and various factories) but strictly reject American social customs, which he found too informal and chaotic.
>>220323218>He feared that if Egypt modernized exactly like the U.S., it would lose its "Eastern soul" and hospitality.Literally the "muh soul" meme
>>220323218Good news for him because Egypt is still a backwards land of primitives where no one works even in the 21st century.
>>220323340>where no one works even in the 21st centuryWhat do they do?
>>220323218>How do Egyptians now feel about this guy?I've never heard about him before but his Wikipedia article mentions that he built the Manial palace which is cool. Shame the area nowadays is almost entirely Yemeni>are they pretty welcoming of American shitbags asking questions about the old monarchyYes they don't really care. The monarchy isn't a big part of modern Egypsiestani identity and no one cares about them you'll be fine. Egypsies WILL try to scam you if you're White though>anyone in Egypt willing to go and take pictures of parts of this book for meI don't live in Cairo and i don't want to travel mid semester so nah>>220325264Stuff their gullet full of ful medames (yastaaaaaaaaa), scam tourists, grope women in public transport, and breed their obese landsow wives.
