Egypt is divided into twenty-six governorates ( sometimes called provinces ), which include four city governorates: Alexandria ( Al Iskandariyah ), Cairo ( Al Qahirah ), Port Said ( Bur Said ) and Suez.

The more cosmopolitan has been the ascending political culture since the founding of the Al Said dynasty in 1744, although the imamate tradition has found intermittent expression.

The position of Sultan of Muscat would remain in the possession of the Al Said clan even when the imamate of Oman remained out of reach.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

Like its predecessors, Al Said dynastic rule has been characterized by a history of internecine family struggle, fratricide, and usurpation.

Schisms within the ruling family were apparent before Ahmad ibn Said's death in 1783 and were later manifest with the division of the family into two main lines, the Sultan ibn Ahmad Al Said ( r. 1792 – 1806 ) line controlling the maritime state, with nominal control over the entire country ; and the Qais branch, with authority over the Al Batinah and Ar Rustaq areas.

During the period of Sultan Said ibn Sultan Al Said's rule ( 1806 – 1856 ), Oman cultivated its East African colonies, profiting from the slave trade.

In 1970, Qaboos bin Said Al Said ousted his father, Sa ' id bin Taymur, who later died in exile in London.

Its capital, Salalah, was the permanent residence of Sultan Said ibn Taimur Al Said and the birthplace of the present sultan, Qabus ibn Said.

When Sultan Qaboos bin Said Al Said assumed power in 1970, Oman had limited contacts with the outside world, including neighbouring Arab states.

In the early nineteenth centuries, continuing bloody conflict involved not only the Al Khalifa, the Al Jalahima, and the Iranians but also the Omanis under Sayyid Said ibn Sultan Al Said, the nascent Wahhabis of Arabia, and the Ottomans.

Al has added some sidemen to the act which makes for a smoother operation but it's substantially the same format heard last spring.

According to the Boston Globe ( as reported on May 18, 2010 ), the town has renamed its amphitheater in the artist's honor, and is looking to develop an Al Capp Museum.

Both films feature Al Pacino in what has become a fruitful working relationship.

Other actors that De Palma has worked with on more than one occasion include Jennifer Salt ( The Wedding Party, Hi, Mom !, and Sisters ), Charles Durning ( Hi, Mom !, Sisters, and The Fury ), Al Pacino ( Scarface and Carlito's Way ), John Lithgow ( Obsession, Blow Out and Raising Cain ), Sean Penn ( Casualties of War and Carlito's Way ), Amy Irving ( Carrie, The Fury and Casualties of War ( uncredited voice-over )), and John Travolta ( Carrie, Blow Out ).

The Canadian Jewish Congress has expressed its opinion over possible anti-Semitic incitement on this station and that the restrictions on Al Jazeera are appropriate, while the Canadian B ' nai Brith is opposed to any approval of Al Jazeera in Canada.

Since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys, Biafra has continued to collaborate and record with other artists, including Mojo Nixon, Al Jourgensen of Ministry, and the Melvins, and has become a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular.

The fictional Elbonia has some visual and thematic similarities to the fictional country of Lower Slobbovia in Al Capp's long-running strip Li ' l Abner, where the impoverished citizens, who suffered under corrupt government, were perpetually seen in waist-deep snow.

The government has considered the Western Desert a frontier region and has divided it into two governorates at about the twenty-eighth parallel: Matruh to the north and New Valley ( Al Wadi al Jadid ) to the south.

North Sinai has its capital at Al Arish and the South Sinai has its capital in Artt Turkishy.

SOE has devoted one server ( Al ' Kabor ) to an OS X version of the game.

After retiring, he became a sports broadcaster and has worked for the BBC, Al Jazeera Sports and Eredivisie Live.

American and Israeli counter-terrorism officials claim that Hezbollah has ( or had ) links to Al Qaeda, although Hezbollah's leaders deny these allegations.

Al Qaeda now has a presence in the country, in the form of several terrorist groups formerly led by Abu Musab Al Zarqawi.

Al Hajarah has a complex topography of rocky desert, wadis, ridges, and depressions.

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The perceived threat to Iraq in the summer of 1982 thus was serious enough to force Saddam Hussein to request the Nonaligned Movement to change the venue of its scheduled September meeting from Baghdad to India ; nevertheless, since the fall of 1982, the ground conflict has generally been a stalemated war of attrition — although Iran made small but demoralizing territorial advances as a result of its massive offensives in the reed marshes north of Basra in 1984 and in 1985, in Al Faw Peninsula in early 1986, and in the outskirts of Basra during January and February 1987.

In Cincinnati in October 2002, Bush informed the public: " Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and gases.

Keilhauite has a chemical formula of ( CaTi, Al < sub > 2 </ sub >, Fe < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > 3 +</ sup >, Y < sub > 2 </ sub >< sup > 3 +</ sup >) SiO < sub > 5 </ sub >.

This has changed as major economic developments take place in other parts of the country, like oil exploration in the South, the Giad Industrial Complex in Al Jazirah state and White Nile Sugar Project in Central Sudan, and the Merowe Dam in the North.

Khartoum has one of the largest open markets or souqs, the Souq Al Arabi.

Members of one family, the Al Sabah, have ruled Kuwait from that time.

Kuwait was a British protectorate from 1899 until 1961 and although a succession of Emirs of the Al Sabah ruled the country, foreign affairs and defence was a British prerogative.

Ajman is ruled by Humaid bin Rashid Al Nuaimi of the Al Nuaimi tribe.

For most of nineteenth century Karak was ruled by the Al Majali tribe, who originally came from Hebron.

They traveled to Afghanistan in spring 2001, before the September 11 attacks, while the country was still ruled by the Taliban, who were then giving sanctuary to Osama bin Laden, who in turn used it as a base for Al Qaeda training.

Zayed was named after his grandfather, Sheikh Zayed bin Khalifa Al Nahyan (" Zayed the Great "), who ruled the emirate from 1855 to 1909.

Al Gore, who had won the Nobel Prize while out of office, repeatedly ruled out running for president in the 2008 election.

The emirate was ruled until his death by Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mu ' alla, who was a member of the UAE's Supreme Council since 1981.

On 31 March 2010, US District Court Judge Vaughn R. Walker ruled that the Bush administration should have gotten warrants for its wiretaps of Al Haramain.

However, Unaizah was ruled by Al Sulaim dynasty.

The city is ruled by Al Sulaim dynasty, in accordance to a written treaty between them and the Saudi royal family, the city is known to be center of religion and culture, thus making Al Qassim Province as a whole to be known as a center of religion and culture.

He was followed by his sons Mohammed bin Shakhbut ( ruled 1816-1818 ) Tahnun bin Shakhbut ( ruled 1818-1833 ) Khalifa bin Shakhbut Al Nahayan ( ruled 1833-1845 ), but co-ruled throughout all their reigns.

Al Rasheed, the House of Rashid, or the House of Rasheed ( ) were a historic dynasty of the Arabian Peninsula who ruled Emirate of Jabal Shammar, and the most formidable enemies of the House of Saud in Nejd.

Nevertheless, The Al Rasheed Family still ruled and fought with each other hand in hand against Ibn Saud.

A boy of 10 when he was made amir, his maternal relatives of the Al Sabhan family ruled as regents on his behalf until he came of age, based on the constitution of Emara.

The Senate results of the Minnesota election was so close that it was contested until the state supreme court ruled in favor of Al Franken on June 30, 2009.

" Axis of the Faith ") was a Turkic king of Northwest India who ruled from his capital in Delhi where he built the Qutub Minar and the Quwwat Al Islam mosque.

In its " golden age ", around 1850, the tribe ruled much of central and northern Arabia from Riyadh to the frontiers of Syria and the vast area known as Al Jazira in Northern Iraq.

The most notable leader from the Ta ' isha is Khalifa Abdulla Al Ta ' ishi who ruled Sudan after the death of Mohamed Ahmed Al Mahdi in 1885 till it was recaptured by the Anglo-Egyption forces in 1899.