Maadi from the Egyptian army, future president Anwar Sadat. Following the 1952 Revolution, after which the British colonial occupation ended, and the 1956 Suez Crisis, or Tripartite Aggression, in which Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal, British and French expatriates living in Maadi and elsewhere were forced to leave Egypt. As a result, some of their institutions, such as St.John's Anglican Church, were taken over and run temporarily by other nationalities. The oldest area in Maadi is El Sarayat, composed mostly of villas and low rise buildings. It is the most affluent part of
The Crisis to sell subscriptions to the magazine, "The Crisis". In its first year, the journal had a monthly circulation of 1,000. Ten years later, by 1918, it had more than 100,000 readers. It also grew in size, beginning at 20 pages and rising to as many as 68 pages; and in price, beginning at 10 cents per issue and later increasing to 15 cents. "The Crisis" would go on to become incredibly influential during the 1910s and 1920s and would take a large role in the Harlem Renaissance literature movement. While the magazine was originally intended to be much more of