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Ilios Yannakakis
Ilios Yannakakis (13 September 1931 in Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt – 16 January 2017 in Paris) was a French historian and political scientist of Greece, Greek descent, professor emeritus of the University of Lille III. He joined the Communist Party of Greece and after the Greek Civil War of 1946-1949 Political refugees of the Greek Civil War, he fled to Paris and eventually to communist Czechoslovakia. There he fell victim of purge of the communist party. After the death of Joseph Stalin he continued lecturing. He was engaged in struggle for human rights and after the defeat of the Prague Spring he fled to France. In 2003 he became the editorial board of the ''Le Meilleur des mondes'', a magazine of the French political think tank Cercle de l'Oratoire. A fictionalized account of his life was presented in the book ''Matin Rouge'' ("Red Sunrise") by :fr:Chantal Delsol, Chantal Delsol. Books * ''Premier retour de Bagdad'' (with Pierre Rigoulot), 1998, * ''Un Pavé dans l'hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
