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How a concubine became the ruler of Egypt - Abdallah Ewis

How a concubine became the ruler of Egypt - Abdallah Ewis

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Get to know the story of Shajar Al-Durr, who was born enslaved and rose to become the ruler of Egypt. The year is 1249 CE. King Louis IX is sailing the Nile, threatening to overthrow the sultan and capture Egypt. Egypt s commanders ask the sultan s wife, Shajar Al-Durr, to report this news to the injured sultan. But they don t know the truth: the sultan is dead, and she is secretly ruling in his stead. Who was this impressive woman? Abdallah Ewis details the reign of the Sultana of Egypt. Ninsuhn: I got to 2: 36 and quit. I was waiting for that, where the Indigenous Egyptians (who built the damn country everyone is so amazed by) are always shown as slaves. Just as someone below asked how is this a forgotten queen when they are taught about her in school from 300 page textbooks on her, one wonders where TED-Ed's head is when it comes to some of these portrayals and scripts. I love TED-Ed to pieces, but I'm still not subbed because as an African, there are just too many little things that leave a bitter taste. (Looking at you, Hidden Treasures of Timbuktu, a West African animation tale. with no Africans in it)
Date: 2021-09-28

Comments and reviews: 9


The fact the wife that got divorced was more mad at the queen that was forced to marry her husband who then later on tried to cheat on her as well kills her instead shows priorities were very lacking back in the day
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Her husband was called Salah Eddine, not Assalih!
And even if it were illustrated, why didn't you talk about the way she died? Beaten to death with shower flipflops (qubqab! That was a horrendous death!

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I'd like to thank JackRackam for making a video about her earlier this year! otherwise this would've been a surprise to me, but still a great video ted!
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' History isn't just what happens in the past. It is what later generations choose to make of it '
So many of these people are forgotten throughout history.

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She's not all forgotten, at least not in Egypt. Her story is taught extensively in school and I remember the school book was about 300 pages all about her
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Arabic is a very hard language especially for native English speakers
Which makes her ability to say these Arabic words very well more impressive

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Turkic slaves weren't christians and most of them were muslims, get your historic facts straight it's like watching a high school presentation.
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It may seem cool and amazing but after all they all unmoral people. Killing, betrayal in their blood despite have a great kingdom.
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Me after one twist in this history vid: Oh Ok twists happen.
Me after the 10000th twist in this history vid: wut! So pReDictaBle

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