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TIL that the district of Arabi, LA, USA was named after the Egyptian nationalist leader and War Minister Ahmed Orabi أحمد عرابي after his revolt against the British and Khedive Tawfiq in 1881–82, creating an unexpected historical link between Mississippi River and Egypt’s anti-colonial struggle.

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