Series: The unknown story behind a photograph
In July 1952, the monarchy in Egypt was overthrown by a coup by the Free Officers under Gamal Abdel Nasser, and a National Guard was organized for the first time with the participation of women. In all the magazines and newspapers of the time, the iconic photograph of a young female National Guard woman in a posture of attention, with a gun, stands out, serving as a model of the “new Egypt”. But who is the woman in the photo? What is her story and what does she have to do with the then large Greek community, medicine, Port Said and the Suez Canal?
Narrator: Poppy Nikandrou-Deligiorgi
Interview: Maya Filippopoulou
Podcast Creation: Maya Filippopoulou
Sound Design: Iasonas Theofanou
Audio Editing: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Istorima is the biggest project for recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. More than 1,000 young researchers find narrators listen, collect and preserve stories of people from all over Greece: Stories of their hometowns, stories of love, stories that changed Greece or defined it, modern or old stories. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could easily be lost in time.
It was created by the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), as part of its initiative to Restart and Empower Youth (see more on www.snf.org). More than 20,000 stories are gradually being published in full on www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos, or written stories on www.istorima.org.