Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book
and the role of the state
By Hassan Massoudy 
Youssef Fadel pays powerful testament to a terrible period in Morocco’s history
essential workers
The Mosques of Egypt ART / Middle Eastern" Paul Kalanithi died while workingBernard O'Kane Less than ten years after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the new religion of Islam arrived in Egypt with the army of Amr ibn al As in AD 639. Amr immediately established his capital at al Fustat, just south of modern Cairo, and there he built Africas first mosque, one still in regular use today. Since then, governors, caliphs, sultans, amirs, beys, pashas, among others, have built mosques, madrasas, and mausoleums throughout Egypt