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Luigi Fiorillo (1847-1898) established his photographic studio in Alexandria (Egypt) in the early 1870s. He took pictures of the city after the 1882 bombardment by the British, publishing an album. He had taken snapshots of the Urabi revolt a year earlier. Following his death, his studio was taken over by his widow and sons, one of whom (Federico) subsequently worked on the islands of Rhodes and Leros (Greece).

Fettel & Bernard was a photographic studio in Alexandria (Egypt).

Henry Robin Romilly Fedden, or Robin Fedden (1908-1977), was a British writer and diplomat who had studied English at Cambridge. He served as a diplomat in Athens (Greece) and taught English literature at the University of Cairo.

Michalis Fardoulis (Michel Fardoulis-Lagrange) was born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1910. A son of Greek parents with an ancestry in Kythera (Greece), he moved to Paris in 1929 to study Philosophy. He joined the French intellectual circles and was prosecuted for his political activity. He published prose, poetry and essays. He was the publisher of the review Troisième Convoi (1945-1951) with which prominent figures had collaborated (Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Marcel Lecomte et al.). A short story of Fardoulis (“Sa spoudi, sa satira”) was published in the journal Alexandrini Techni in 1929. He died in Paris in 1994.

Ethnos was an Athenian newspaper published from 1913 to 1970. The publication of the newspaper was discontinued during 1916-1917 and then again in 1941, due to the Nazi occupation of Greece.

Ermis was a newspaper published by S. S. Rodinos from 1887 to 1902. It was one of the oldest newspapers of Cairo (Egypt).

Elpis was a newspaper published in Alexandria (Egypt) from 1873 to 1902, with the exception of a short interim period, when its distribution was discontinued, following the death of his owner, P. Kazotis.

Joseph John Elliott (1835-1903) and Clarence Edmund Fry (1840-1897) established the Elliott & Fry photographic company in London (England) in 1863. The company had often employed well-known photographers. The studio was bombed during World War II and most of the early negatives were destroyed.

Ethnos [Nation] was an Athenian newspaper published from 1913 to 1970. The publication of the newspaper was discontinued during 1916-1917 and then again in 1941, due to the Nazi occupation of Greece.

The Athenian newspaper Eleftheron Vima was founded in 1922 by a group of people including Georgios Roussos, Alexandros Diomidis, Emmanouil Tsouderos, Dimitrios Lambrakis et al. Its circulation was discontinued in 1944. It was published again in 1945 under the name To Vima, which it has retained to this day.

The artistic and literary company “Eleftheres Taseis” was founded in order to promote cultural life in Alexandria (Egypt). Its members included Stratis Tsirkas, Georgios Papoutsakis and Georgios Agallianos.

Journal of Alexandria (Egypt), first published in 1895 by Argyrios Drakopoulos and directed by Georgios V. Tsokopoulos. C. P. Cavafy was one of the authors who published in the journal.