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Gert Huskens
@gerthuskens
Historian | PhD @ULBruxelles and @Ugent | Diplomacy, Egypt & Levant, Global Belgium
Dec 18, 2023 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
International trade is threatened by the Houthi attacks on merchant ships in the Red Sea. The world's most important companies already redirected their vessels.

How could this happen?

Bab-el-Mandeb, Suez & Red Crisis. A historical thread.⚓️🧵1/20 #suez #houthi #BabelMandeb


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Image After the Suez Isthmus was pierced in 1869, the international community agreed - within a context of increasing imperial domination and the decline of Ottoman and Egyptian sovereignty - to regulate international trade passing through the Suez Canal. 2/20 Image
Aug 23, 2021 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
Today, the Bichara residence in Luxor has been destroyed.

Here's why this is a disaster for those who want to save the rich history of Luxor. A thread. 1/8🧵🇪🇬⏳ 1) Architectural value

It does not take much imagination or expertise to realise the Bichara residence was one of the last fine examples of 19th century architecture in Luxor. The building was one of Luxor's rare jewels. 2/8
Aug 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Reportage over de Afrikaanse studenten aan de @KU_Leuven, uit 1961 (!) 🎓🌍 “Afrika en de Alma Mater”
Dec 11, 2020 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
Forgotten histories of Belgian imperialism.

During the 19th century, Belgian imperialism did not only affect the Congo, a whole list of other countries were seen as potential colonies. I'll share a feature story daily. Day 2: SOUTH-SUDAN & UGANDA🇸🇸🇺🇬 1/23

📸Lado Coat of Arms Image The Nile was one of Leopold II's biggest obsessions. A Belgian empire which stretched along the shores of both the Congo and the Nile river was one of his penultimate ambition. 2/23
Nov 9, 2020 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
On the occasion of the recent turmoil in Ethiopia's insurgent Tigray province, I'm resharing my thread about the history of Belgian expansionism towards the region in the 19th century. 🇧🇪🇪🇹⏳

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theguardian.com/world/2020/nov… During the 19th century, Belgian imperialism did not only affect the Congo, a whole list of other countries were seen as potential colonies. Already in the 1840s Abyssinia (the region which roughly corresponds with Ethiopia) was on the radar of Belgian expansionism 2/14
Jul 14, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The Conference of Beijing following the Boxer War through the lens of Germany envoy in China Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein. 👨🤝📃

📸Alphons Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Ein Tagebuch in Bildern, [Berlin], [1902], p. 265. Since I wrote my Master's thesis about the role and agency of Belgium's representative Maurice Joostens (sixth from the left on the picture) during the negotiations, I couldn't help to write a short Wikipedia biography of him.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_J…