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Pamela Toler

Pamela Toler holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. She is the author of Heroines of Mercy Street: The Real Nurses of the Civil War, scheduled for release in January in conjunction with the PBS series Mercy Street.

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In Fragments from Fustat, Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Old Cairo
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Arts & Culture
Founded in 641 CE as Egypt’s first Islamic capital, Fustat was much like the modern Cairo it helped give rise to: polyglot, multi-confessional and, in its time, prosperous.

Pamela Toler

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In Fragments from Fustat, Glimpses of a Cosmopolitan Old Cairo