Demonstrators in Cairo's Tahrir Square on 8 February 2011

Over 2 million protesters at Cairo's Tahrir square.

One of his drawings, ' Solidarity ', was displayed on a giant screen in Cairo's Tahrir Square in 2011.

In a speech to supporters in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday June 30, 2012, Mohamed Morsi briefly mentioned that he would work to free Omar Abdel-Rahman, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City, along with the countless other Egyptians who were arrested during the revolution.

During the Arab-Israeli war, the famous Cicurel department store near Cairo's Opera Square was firebombed.

The city was the second-largest in the empire, behind only Constantinople, and, although migration was not the primary source of Cairo's growth, twenty percent of its population at the end of the 18th century consisted of religious minorities and foreigners from around the Mediterranean.

The Cairo Governorate was just north of the Helwan Governorate from 2008 when some Cairo's southern districts, including Maadi and New Cairo, were split off and annexed into the new governorate, to 2011 when the Helwan Governorate was reincorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

The Sheikh of Cairo's Al-Azhar University later rejected the fatwā, finding that there was no objection to such shows since they spread general knowledge.

Cairo's Mamluk sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri was affronted at the attacks upon the Red Sea, the loss of tolls and traffic, the indignities to which Mecca and its port were subjected, and above all at the fate of one of his ships.

One of Saladin's most important supporters was the eunuch Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who helped him depose the Fatimids, dispossess their properties, and construct the wall of Cairo's citadel.

In December 2000, a joint team from Waseda University in Japan and Cairo's Ain Shams University tried to get permission for DNA testing of Egyptian mummies, but was denied by the Egyptian Government.

Located close to one of Cairo's main modern traffic arteries, al-Azhar Street, the Fatimid-era Bab al-Barqiyya fortified gate was constructed with interlocking volumes that surrounded the entrant in such a way as to provide greater security and control than typical city wall gates.

Following his resignation, Naguib was then isolated by President Nasser in a Cairo's suburb villa owned by Zienab Al-Wakil, wife of Mustafa an-Nahhas Pasha, ex-Prime Minister of Egypt.

The claim that al-Hakim was mad and the version of events around him is disputed as mere propaganda by some scholars, such as Willi Frischaue who states " His enemies called him the ' Mad Caliph ' but he enhanced Cairo's reputation as a centre of civilization.

He died on 8 August 1496 and was interred in the spectacular mausoleum attached to his mosque in Cairo's Northern Cemetery which he had built during his lifetime.

The capacity of Cairo's public transport infrastructure was around 20, 000 passengers / hour, which increased to 60, 000 after the construction of the Metro.

Cairo's metro network was greatly expanded in the mid-1990s with the building of Line 2 ( yellow ), from Shoubra El Kheima to Cairo University, with an extension to Giza.

Öz Beg found an ally against the Ilkhanids in Mamluk Egypt ; indeed, one of Cairo's squares was named after him.

The part concerning Cairo's early history and topography in Description of Egypt, based on Al-Maqrizi's work and Lane's own observations, was revised by Reginald Stuart Poole in 1847 and published in 1896 as Cairo Fifty Years Ago.

He was appointed professor of history at Cairo's teachers ' training college Dār al-ʿUlūm in 1878.

Al Ahly was founded in 1907 as a club where leaders of Cairo's students ' unions could meet during the struggle against colonisation.

Haifa was first with the Carmelit in 1959, while Cairo's system opened in 1987 and Tehran Metro opened in 1999 and Dubai's metro was the fourth when it opened in 2009.

In October 2009, Tantawy launched a campaign against the Niqāb ( the full-face veil which covers the entire body except for the eyes, increasingly worn by women in Egypt ) by personally removing the Niqāb of a teenage girl ( after she failed to remove it ) at a secondary school affiliated to Al-Azhar University, which he was touring in Cairo's Madinet Nasr suburb, much to the shock of all concerned.

Shawki was born in July 1920 in El Baghghala neighborhood of Cairo's popular quarter of Al-Sayyedah Zynab, where the majority of residents were the terso-film goers when Egyptian cinema started turning into a big industry.

Europeans accounted for five percent of Cairo's population at the end of the 19th century, by which point they held most top governmental positions.

* 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.

Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, a teacher at Cairo's Al-Azhar University in the 13th century, wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments.

Abdul Latif al-Baghdadi, a teacher at Cairo's Al-Azhar University in the 13th century, wrote detailed descriptions on ancient Egyptian monuments.

The first of a number of attacks on Saturday, 30 April took place at 15h15 local time ( 12h15 GMT ) in a city bus station located in a 300-metre-wide concourse between the Ramses Hilton Hotel and the Egyptian Museum near Cairo's main traffic intersection.

The Cairo Opera House (; Dār el-Opera el-Masreyya ; literally " Egyptian Opera House "), part of Cairo's National Cultural Center, is the main performing arts venue in the Egyptian capital.

Many of Cairo's oldest Coptic churches, including the Hanging Church, are located along the fortress walls in a section of the city known as Coptic Cairo.

However, in 1168 the Fatimids under the leadership of Vizier Shawar set fire to Fustat to prevent Cairo's capture by the Crusaders.

During its initial, and most deadly waves, approximately 200, 000 people were killed by the plague, and, by the 15th century, Cairo's population had been reduced to between 150, 000 and 300, 000.

Cairo's political influence diminished significantly after the Ottomans supplanted Mamluk power over Egypt in 1517.

However, while Muhammad Ali initiated the construction of public buildings in the city, those reforms had minimal effect on Cairo's landscape.

The areas, which are home to most of Cairo's embassies, are surrounded on the north, east, and south by the older parts of the city.

Cairo's hospitals include the JCI-accredited As-Salam International Hospital-Corniche El Nile, Maadi ( Egypt's largest private hospital with 350 beds ), Ain Shams University Hospital, Dar El Fouad Hospital, as well as Kasr El Aini Hospital.

He worked as a textile merchant in Cairo's religiously mixed Sakakini District.

His trip to Jerusalem signaled a major reorientation of Cairo's place in the global scheme of things, from the Soviet to the American camp.

In the months prior to the Pope's death, rumours had spread through Cairo's Coptic community that he had fallen into a coma.

Housed in a pavilion on the grounds of Cairo's Manesterly Palace, the collection includes a range of Umm Kulthum's personal possessions, including her trademark sunglasses and scarves, along with photographs, recordings, and other archival material.

* A list of Cairo's Belle Époque architects 1900 – 1950, compiled by Samir Raafat.