By Hamad Rashid
Find out about the military area created by Alexandria demolished by the colonists and then rebuilt by Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay in Egypt in 882 AH – 1477 AD.
The city of Alexandria in northwestern Egypt a three-hour by car at 260 kilometers from the capital city of Cairo, has a great history currently being recorded in memory of its buildings including a building built into the Mediterranean Sea.
In an ongoing African journalist training in Egypt coordinated by the Union of African Journalists, which now entered the second week focused on visits to various parts of Egypt, Africa, and the World, the first visit outside the city of Cairo was held in the city of Alexandria where the starting point was in the history of the Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay building the guest, Ms. Nesserine El Bana made a statement.
Ms. Nesserine El Bana told journalists, “The city of Alexandria was discovered by Alexandria in 331 BCE in her campaign to expand Egypt, the region was so important in Egypt’s protection and security from the enemy. It was a long fortress in the Mediterranean Sea where soldiers used to serve as a lens to look at far-flung places and to take action, Egypt was very good at the time but the British used the spy and then the city was invaded and Egypt began to colonize by the British Since 1882, a move that led to the demolition of fortresses to destroy the history of Africans”
Mrs. Nesserine added, “Later in 882 AH – 1477 AD the then King Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay decided to rebuild the port area where the military site was located in Alexandria, currently this area is used as a memory and history of the people of Alexandria, Egypt, and Africa has rooms that are an example of the military rooms they used at the time, the tall administrative building that has various rooms and a long fence on each side, surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea on every side ”.
However, back in the 1798s France through Napoleon Bonaparte ruled Egypt
Speaking about the importance of arriving at the Sultan Al-Ashraf Qaitbay one of the journalists who visited Hamad Rashid from Tanzania said “I see that there is a lesson for us in understanding African history and how European nations and America destroyed it to lose evidence of the pain of Africans they have experienced in during the colonial era, but we are also aware of these histories that reflect the life that Africans have at present, a lifestyle of their culture and the receiving a foreign culture that aims to continue to rule Africa without weapons”.
Hamad added, “Journalists have a responsibility to explain and remind Africans and its leaders, the reality of the pain they have experienced, at the time they seek concrete solutions for Neo-Colonialism”