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A 1940s photo by one of Egypt’s most important studio portraitists, Aram Alban, who went by the name of Alban,1 depicts a father dressed in Egyptian peasant attire sitting steadfast in front of his son dressed in semi-European attire. On their heads are two different symbols: the father wears an imama (traditional head wrap) and the son a tarboosh (felt, cone-shaped hat worn by the educated upper/middle-class Egyptian elite). The father’s eyes look away, the son’s look to the camera. The diverted eyes of the father, in comparison to the son’s, point to a tension between old and new.
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Morrison, H. (2015). Reforming Childhood in the Context of Colonialism. In: Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt. Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432780_2
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