Bat's Well Inn

"In 2019, during the restoration of the "Bir al-Watawit Inn" adjacent to the "Ahmed Ibn Tulun" Mosque in the "Sayyida Zeinab" neighborhood, diaries dating back to 1865 AD were found, buried behind the wall of room number seven on the third floor of the inn building, and well preserved.

This book contains diaries numbered 34 to 53 without deletion or revision. These are the only diaries suitable for publication, in which the photographer of the dead, Suleiman Effendi al-Sayoufi, chronicled ...more