Ottoman lines and were gradually pushing on into the interior. The areas conquered were put under the direct administration of the British High Command in the Levant, whose headquarters remained in Cairo.
The fact that Cairo was of such great strategic importance inevitably had repercussions on the Armenian community in Egypt. In the wake of the tremendous upheavals caused by the War, beginning with the genocide perpetrated against the Ottoman Armenians, the Cairo and Alexandria communities were faced with the pressing obligation to organize emergency relief measures for their suffering compatriots within the borders of the Empire. Read all
From the beginning of World War I, Egypt was at the center of the events that shaped the Near East. On the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, then under British control, was the front on which Allied forces faced off with the German and Ottoman troops stationed in Syria and Palestine. It was in Cairo that the British general staff planned and oversaw its regional war operations, and it was also on Egyptian soil that Allied schemes to partition the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire first took shape. The pivotal role that Egypt played in Middle Eastern affairs was reinforced in the last year of the War and became still more prominent after the Ottoman defeat. By late 1917, Allied armies had succeeded in penetrating the
Relief Measures for the Refugees in Port Said
The Port Said tent camp for refugees from Musa Dagh
(Coll. Bibl. Nubar/ Paris).
The Port Said tent camp for refugees from Musa Dagh
(Coll. Bibl. Nubar/Paris).