• Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. (wikipedia.org)
  • NAZLET EL-SHARIF, Egypt (AP) - The 42-year-old Egyptian farmer was watering his crops along the Nile River south of the capital of Cairo and scrolling on his mobile phone when he learned that two of his sons were dead. (ap.org)
  • CAIRO (AP) - Egypt on Tuesday resumed direct commercial flights to Sudan for the first time since a devastating war broke out between Sudan's rival generals nearly five months ago. (ap.org)
  • 5 Egyptian protesters chant anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 5, 2012. (voanews.com)
  • 6 An Egyptian protester with Arabic writing on his forehead that reads, 'Muslims and Christians, one hand,' attends a demonstration outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 5, 2012. (voanews.com)
  • 7 A young boy waves a national flag from his mother's shoulders as protesters chant slogans in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, December 4, 2012. (voanews.com)
  • 8 Anti-Morsi protesters run from smoke from a tear gas canister thrown by riot police, during clashes in front of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, December 4, 2012. (voanews.com)
  • Yesterday a court in Cairo sentenced dozens of NGO workers - Egyptians, Americans, and Germans - to prison for violating laws restricting the operation and funding of civil society organizations in Egypt. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • If you, like me, haven't had the opportunity to visit the Giza Pyramid Complex outside of Cairo, Egypt, this 2-hour HD walking tour is probably the next best thing - it feels like walking around about as much as a video can. (kottke.org)
  • From Lake Nasser , the river's entrance into southern Egypt, to Cairo in the north, the Nile is hemmed into its trenchlike valley by bordering cliffs, but at Cairo these disappear, and the river begins to fan out into its delta. (britannica.com)
  • For people of Egypt this funding solution supports Vision 2030 with more access to potable water and cleaner transportation via Cairo monorail. (worldbank.org)
  • One of the stone scarab statues uncovered during the excavation in excavated in Saqqara, south of Cairo, Egypt. (nypost.com)
  • A typical visit to Egypt includes arrival in the capital city of Cairo, one of the largest cities in Africa and the Middle East, with a population of approximately 22 million. (cdc.gov)
  • Your current work is located in Cairo, Egypt. (lu.se)
  • Egypt has observed DST for 62 years between 1940 and 2023 . (timeanddate.com)
  • Jun 8, 2023 · Thu 8 Jun 2023 14.54 EDT Last modified on Fri 9 Jun 2023 11.35 EDT A Russian man has died after being mauled by a shark off one of Egypt 's Red Sea resorts, Egyptian and Russian authorities have. (yahoo.com)
  • Jun 9, 2023 · A young Russian man was mauled to death by a shark off one of Egypt 's Red Sea resorts, according to Egyptian and Russian authorities. (yahoo.com)
  • 7 June 2023 - Egypt has received the largest number of displaced people from Sudan to date. (who.int)
  • Egypt (Arabic: مصر Miṣr [mesˁr], Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mɑsˤr]), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tour Egypt aims to offer the ultimate Egyptian adventure and intimate knowledge about the country. (touregypt.net)
  • NGO law in Egypt has been a flashpoint for decades, with local civic groups, international rights organizations, and Western governments regularly raising concerns about the Egyptian state's persistent efforts to coopt and control this autonomous societal sector. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • She lived in the Egyptian city of Thebes at the end of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. (geni.com)
  • Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt 's Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. (yahoo.com)
  • American aid of 1.3 billion dollars a year since Egypt signed the 1978 Camp David accords, and made peace with Israel, enabled Washington to exercise enormous power over the Egyptian armed forces. (counterpunch.org)
  • Mada Masr , an Egypt-based media organization, reported yesterday that several users took to Twitter over the weekend to report that they could no longer send or receive messages while on Egyptian IP addresses. (engadget.com)
  • The Egyptian government actually declared the group a terrorist organization earlier this year -- but Egypt is still facing an escalation of extremist activity. (defense-update.com)
  • Visit this Egyptian place of prayer and worship, a gathering place for the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt. (secondlife.com)
  • According to the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 164 000 Sudanese migrants have crossed into Egypt as of 28 May. (who.int)
  • The project has begun with a student exchange, where Swedish students have studied pedagogy, learning environments and student-teacher interaction in Egypt, followed by a similar study of Egyptian students in Sweden in spring 2008. (lu.se)
  • The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In September, Grindr announced that locations would be hidden by default for users in countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Russia, which have a history of prosecuting those from the LGBT community. (cnn.com)
  • If Gamal Mubarak had succeeded his father, Egypt would be on the road to becoming a family dynasty such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait or Qatar, where institutions are more frail and the rule of law has corroded. (counterpunch.org)
  • The largest fleets of M-60 are in Egypt, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, where the M-60 is used alongside the M-1A1. (defense-update.com)
  • The dynasty's reign (664-525 BC) is also called the Saite Period after the city of Sais , where its pharaohs had their capital, and marks the beginning of the Late Period of ancient Egypt . (wikipedia.org)
  • Ancient Pharaohs and pyramids may be what Egypt is most famous for but the country is now making a charge to become the next high-tech offshore outsourcing hotspot for European and US multinationals looking for cheaper call centre and IT locations. (zdnet.com)
  • Throughout the world, Egypt is synonymous with the legends of the Pharaohs, the Great Pyramids, treasure-laden tombs, and hieroglyphs. (cdc.gov)
  • Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt declared itself a republic, and in 1958 it merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which dissolved in 1961. (wikipedia.org)
  • BASF has been in Egypt since 1952. (basf.com)
  • Egypt Vision 2030 aims to increase the proportion of green projects in the government's investment budget from 14 percent in 2020 to 30 percent in 2022. (worldbank.org)
  • Tourists snorkel near a beach of the Red Sea resort of Sahl Hasheesh, Hurghada, Egypt on January 8, 2020. (yahoo.com)
  • Taken together, these events mark a sad and frustrating milestone in a long history of U.S. confrontation with Egypt over civil society independence, and over the U.S. government's desire to engage with Egypt's people as well as its government. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Those developments following President Anwar Sadat's defection from the Soviet camp neutralized Egypt's official backing for Palestinians and isolated Egypt in the Arab world. (counterpunch.org)
  • Royal Library of Alexandria , or Ancient Library of Alexandria, in Alexandria, Egypt, seems to have been the largest and most significant great library of the ancient world. (geni.com)
  • This research and development project is a collaboration between LU, KTH in Stockholm, ITC, The Netherlands, Benha University and Alexandria University, Egypt and funded by EU TEMPUS. (lu.se)
  • In 1978, Egypt signed the Camp David Accords, officially withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and recognising Israel. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Governments of Israel and Egypt recall that they concluded at Camp David and signed at the White House on September 17, 1978, the annexed documents entitled 'A Framework for Peace in the Middle East agreed at Camp David' and 'Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Israel and Egypt. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In addition to being up to date on routine vaccines, travelers to Egypt should obtain hepatitis A and B, typhoid, and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. (cdc.gov)
  • Sarcophagus of Harkhebit "Royal Seal Bearer, Sole Companion, Chief Priest of the Shrines of Upper and Lower Egypt, and Overseer of the Cabinet", 595-526 BCE, Saqqara , 26th dynasty of Egypt. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Nile delta, or Lower Egypt , covers an area of 9,650 square miles (25,000 sq km). (britannica.com)
  • During the Neolithic era, several predynastic cultures developed independently in Upper and Lower Egypt. (geni.com)
  • and goddess Neith wearing the crown of Lower Egypt. (nypost.com)
  • In May 1992, security forces detained the relatives of a security suspect who was wanted in connection with the killing of a police officer in Isna, a town in Upper Egypt. (hrw.org)
  • In July 1993, a seventy-year-old woman, ill with diabetes, was taken hostage twice to force the surrender of her fugitive son, who was wanted in connection with theattempted assassination of a security forces operative in Upper Egypt. (hrw.org)
  • In February 1994, the mother, two sisters, brother, and a cousin of a wanted Islamist militant were held incommunicado in Upper Egypt in an attempt to force the suspect to surrender to authorities. (hrw.org)
  • One middle-aged hostage from Upper Egypt was set free after fifteen days of incommunicado detention that began in July 1993. (hrw.org)
  • Throughout the second half of the 20th century, Egypt endured social and religious strife and political instability, fighting several armed conflicts with Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, and occupying the Gaza Strip intermittently until 1967. (wikipedia.org)
  • 1973 October - Egypt and Syria go to war with Israel during Israel's celebration of Yom Kippur to reclaim the land they lost in 1967. (bbc.co.uk)
  • 1979 March - The peace treaty between Egypt and Israel is signed. (bbc.co.uk)
  • At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world, and the third-most populated in Africa, behind Nigeria and Ethiopia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Egypt, at the northeast corner of Africa on the Mediterranean Sea, is bordered on the west by Libya, on the south by the Sudan, and on the east by the Red Sea and Israel. (infoplease.com)
  • Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th-4th millennia BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • Egypt is divided into two unequal, extremely arid regions by the landscape's dominant feature, the northward-flowing Nile River. (infoplease.com)
  • The topography of Egypt is dominated by the Nile . (britannica.com)
  • Without the Nile, which flows through Egypt for about a thousand miles without being joined by a single tributary, the country would be part of the Sahara. (merip.org)
  • Egypt depends upon the fruits of the narrow ribbon of cultivated land adjacent to the Nile and to that river's rich fan-shaped delta. (merip.org)
  • Travelers visit Egypt to see ancient monuments and timeless river vistas along the Nile Valley. (cdc.gov)
  • This decision is a continuation of our cooperation that dates back to the 1970s, and has seen the Mirage 5, the Alpha Jet and the Mirage 2000 fly in the colors of Egypt. (defense-update.com)
  • Egypt is also buying Russian Ka-52K helicopters, to be delivered from 2017. (defense-update.com)
  • Modern Egypt dates back to 1922, when it gained independence from the British Empire as a monarchy. (wikipedia.org)
  • The risk of travelers' diarrhea in Egypt is high. (cdc.gov)
  • Clinicians could consider prescribing an antibiotic for travelers to Egypt to empirically self-treat travelers' diarrhea (see Sec. 2, Ch. 6, Travelers' Diarrhea ). (cdc.gov)
  • All travelers going to Egypt should be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines . (cdc.gov)
  • 1956 October - Tripartite Invasion of Egypt by Britain, France and Israel due to the nationalization of the Suez Canal. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. (wikipedia.org)
  • Researchers pointed out that this would have been considered prized and extremely rare pets during that period, pointing to a 2004 discovery of a lion skeleton by French Egyptologist Alain Zivie, who then proved the lion's high regard in ancient Egypt. (nypost.com)
  • The dig also unearthed a "large" stone-carved scarab beetle, a sacred symbol of rebirth in ancient Egypt, plus two more small smaller versions made of wood and sandstone, as well as several other amulets made of wood and clay. (nypost.com)
  • The influenza program in Egypt was established more than 10 years ago through an interagency agreement between CDC and NAMRU-3. (cdc.gov)
  • The influenza surveillance program in Egypt is part of the influenza surveillance network being established in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). (cdc.gov)
  • Mohammed Omran, CEO of Itida, told silicon.com: "One of the key challenges is for Egypt to develop our own expertise in order to be able to compete with the world's outsourcing companies. (zdnet.com)
  • With an estimated 106 million people, Egypt accounts for one-fourth of the Arab world's population. (cdc.gov)
  • Egypt possesses one-third of the world's monuments and is considered "the Mother of the World" by Arabs. (cdc.gov)
  • Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, forming the Sahara. (geni.com)
  • Egypt is not, as is often believed, an entirely flat country. (britannica.com)
  • Egypt became the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to issue a sovereign green bond. (worldbank.org)
  • In that scenario, Egypt would have turned into a country ruled by a single family like most other states in the region. (counterpunch.org)
  • The strong tradition of foreign language schools in Egypt puts the country in a good position to support English-speaking and European customers, while call centre staff are also given weekly newsletters and the latest DVD movies for the country account they are working on. (zdnet.com)
  • But Egypt also faces internal challenges in building up its own modern physical and IT infrastructure along with the high-tech skills required for the country to be taken seriously as an offshore outsourcing destination. (zdnet.com)
  • They hold to their love of country-and to their belief in God's promise in Isaiah 19: "Blessed be Egypt my people. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In its written statement, the Obama administration says it wants to see Egypt succeed and believes its partnership will be strongest when Egypt is represented by an inclusive, democratically elected civilian government based on the rule of law, fundamental freedoms and an open and competitive economy. (voanews.com)
  • Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the African Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the World Youth Forum. (wikipedia.org)
  • For now, those firmly entrenched in power and those in the population yearning to see a new Egypt confront each other. (counterpunch.org)
  • Much of this intelligence is generated inside organizations such as the World Bank and USAID, which play powerful economic and political roles within countries like Egypt. (merip.org)
  • This would not have required us to approve everything he did, or deny the rights of the people of Egypt to demand a change of government,' Huckabee said in an interview with the Jerusalem Post . (go.com)
  • The clandestine Islamic Group, an organization that advocates the creation of an Islamic state in Egypt, has claimed responsibility for many of these attacks. (hrw.org)
  • Where are shark attacks happening in Egypt? (yahoo.com)
  • A series of attacks by sharks on swimmers off the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. (yahoo.com)
  • A unified kingdom was founded c. 3150 BC by King Menes, leading to a series of dynasties that ruled Egypt for the next three millennia. (geni.com)
  • GDRM has been supporting Egypt since 2015 as part of a broader partnership on public debt and risk management. (worldbank.org)
  • Our model is built on our specific offerings, but also the broader context of Egypt, people's purchasing power, and that of our readers abroad. (niemanlab.org)
  • Al-ʿAzīz, who had a Christian wife, was known for his favourable attitude toward Christians and Jews, and he began the practice of employing Turkish mercenaries, who later came to dominate Egypt. (britannica.com)
  • An Internet statement purportedly from the group said the group has decided to hand over 'the apostate, the ambassador of Egypt which is allied to Jews and Christians, to the mujahedin to carry out the punishment of the apostate. (rferl.org)
  • Coptic Christians test new strategies to thrive in an Islamist Egypt. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Are Christians fleeing Egypt? (christianitytoday.com)
  • Israel and Egypt set for themselves the goal of completing the negotiations within one year so that elections will be held as expeditiously as possible after agreement has been reached between the parties. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Plus: Verdicts in the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, jailed journalists in Egypt, and the rest of the news about the news from the past fortnight. (niemanlab.org)
  • Plus: Ezra Klein and the personal-franchise model of news, Al Jazeera journalists charged in Egypt, and the rest of the week's media and tech news. (niemanlab.org)
  • Egypt is considered to be a regional power in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. (wikipedia.org)
  • Egypt also has plans to increase the share of renewables in the electricity mix to 42% by 2035. (iea.org)
  • AT Kearney already ranks Egypt as the 12th hottest place for offshore outsourcing and analyst Datamonitor predicts the country's currently tiny share of the market will grow by 52 per cent this year alone. (zdnet.com)
  • The Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXVI , alternatively 26th Dynasty or Dynasty 26 ) dynasty was the last native dynasty to rule Egypt before the Persian conquest in 525 BC (although others followed). (wikipedia.org)
  • Following the Assyrian conquest of Egypt by the Neo-Assyrian Empire during the reigns of Taharqa and Tantamani , and the subsequent collapse of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt , Psamtik I was recognized as sole king over all of Egypt. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Persians would eventually invade Egypt in 525 BCE, when their king, Cambyses II , captured and later executed Psamtik III , in the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt , eventually founding the Achaemenid Twenty-seventh Dynasty of Egypt . (wikipedia.org)
  • It flourished under the patronage of the Ptolemaic dynasty and functioned as a major center of scholarship from its construction in the 3rd century BC until the Roman conquest of Egypt in 30 BC. (geni.com)
  • The gradual privatisation of telecoms in Egypt has given operations like this the ability to compete in the international market. (zdnet.com)
  • Integration of environmental aspects and modern technology (GIS and remote sensing) and pedagogy (e-learning) in higher education in Egypt, with special focus on physical planning. (lu.se)
  • Having been involved in a UN project in Egypt for several years, with the aim of streamlining the physical planning process in Egypt, it became clear that there is a great need to improve the planning of planners and to give them access to more modern methods and tools already During study time. (lu.se)
  • Egypt, France and Russia have reached an agreement to sell Egypt the two Mistral Helicopter Carriers originally built in France for the Russian Navy. (defense-update.com)
  • The man, named as Vladimir Popov by Russian media, died after being attacked by a tiger shark in the waters near the city of Hurghada, Egypt 's environment ministry said. (yahoo.com)
  • Both dominant religions in Egypt, Islam and Christianity, prohibit homosexuality. (cnn.com)
  • Learn more about our history and commitment to Egypt. (basf.com)
  • they follow in a long history of efforts by the government to repress freedom of association in Egypt. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been uncharacteristically quiet on Egypt and Obama's handling of the situation, posting no Facebook or Twitter messages on the crisis. (go.com)