During the Twenty-second Dynasty Tanis remained as Egypt's political capital ( though there were sometimes rival dynasties located elsewhere in Upper Egypt ).

The first inundation according to the calendar was observed in Egypt's first capital, Memphis, at the same time as the heliacal rising of Sirius.

Under the Ptolemies, Ptolemais Hermiou took over the role of Upper Egypt's capital city.

Today, a statue of Ibrahim occupies a prominent position in Egypt's capital, Cairo.

An extensive network of domestic services is focused on Cairo, Egypt's capital.

As the main course of the Nile migrated eastward, its position at the hub of Egypt's delta emporia made it a major administrative capital of the Hyksos and other traders.

The October Paper also announced Egypt's new economic policy as combining Arab capital, Western technology, and the state's abundant resources in an effort to transform the Egyptian economy.

The Parliament is located in Cairo, Egypt's capital.

This city, where Alexander was buried, grew, quickly becoming as well Egypt's administrative capital and an intellectual centre.

They were intended to hurt one of Egypt's most important vacation spots, a tourism capital that had billions of dollars invested in it, and achieved that goal as it was registered that many tourists vacated and there were numerous cancellations.

Sebennytos was the capital of Lower Egypt's twelfth nome ( the Sebennyte nome ).

Although the Greeks and Romans typically scorned Egypt's animal-headed gods as bizarre and primitive ( Anubis was known to be mockingly called " Barker " by the Greeks ), Anubis was sometimes associated with Sirius in the heavens, and Cerberus in Hades.

It was during this same period that al-Azhar University reached the predominance among Islamic schools that it continues to hold today ; pilgrims on their way to hajj often attested to the superiority of the institution, which had become associated with Egypt's body of Islamic scholars.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

Christian monasticism was born in Egypt and was instrumental in the formation of the Coptic Orthodox Church character of submission, simplicity and humility, thanks to the teachings and writings of the Great Fathers of Egypt's Deserts.

In 1992, the percentage of Egypt's population employed in agriculture was 33 percent.

In 1939, diplomatic relations between Egypt and Iran were upgraded to ambassadorial level, and Youssef Zulficar Pasha was appointed as Egypt's first ambassador in Tehran.

Contentious issues include Egypt's signing of the Camp David Accords with Israel in 1979, its support for Iraq in Iran's eight-year conflict, the Islamic Republic's hailing of Khalid Islambouli, the late President Anwar Sadat's assassin as a religious hero, seeing as there was both a street and mural named after him ( however, the honorer was changed to Muhammad al-Durrah, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy shot and killed during the outset of the Second Intifada ), and close Egyptian relations with the United States, and most of the Western European countries.

: When Israel was in Egypt's land: Let my people go,

A reference is made to the song in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off when a bedridden Cameron Frye sings, " When Cameron was in Egypt's land, let my Cameron go ".

To avoid allegations that it was still in occupation of any part of the Gaza Strip, Israel also withdrew from the Philadelphi Route, which is a narrow strip adjacent to the Strip's border with Egypt, after Egypt's agreement to secure its side of the border.

* As the Islamic revival gained momentum, governments such as Egypt's, which had previously repressed ( and was still continuing to repress ) Islamists, joined the bandwagon.

Some elements of the Brotherhood, though perhaps against orders, did engage in violence against the government, and its founder Al-Banna was assassinated in 1949 in retaliation for the assassination of Egypt's premier Mahmud Fami Naqrashi three months earlier.

When Arsinoe IV, Egypt's former queen, was paraded in chains, the spectators admired her dignified bearing and were moved to pity.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

Atta was born on September 1, 1968 in Kafr el-Sheikh, located in Egypt's Nile delta region.

Atta's own family moved into such an apartment block in 1990, which to him was " a shabby symbol of Egypt's haphazard attempts to modernize and its shameless embrace of the West.

Atta was also enraged by Egypt's ruling elite, and the Egyptian government's crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood members.

He was disillusioned with the 1952 revolution and by Egypt's defeat in the 1967 Six-Day War.

It was not until the Gamal Abdel Nasser era that Arab nationalism ( in addition to Arab socialism ) became a state policy and a means with which to define Egypt's position in the Middle East and the world, usually articulated vis-à-vis Zionism in the neighboring Jewish state of Israel.

Piankh initiated one or two unsuccessful campaigns into Nubia to wrest control of this gold-producing region from Pinehesy's hands, but his efforts were ultimately fruitless as Nubia slipped permanently out of Egypt's grasp.

Born in 1968 in a small town in Egypt's Nile Delta, Atta moved with his family to the Abdeen section of Cairo at the age of 10.

However, land reform only resulted in the redistribution of about 15 % of Egypt's land under cultivation, and by the early 1980s, the effects of land reform in Egypt drew to a halt as the population of Egypt moved away from agriculture.

He started his career as Third Secretary in the Embassy of Cyprus and moved into being the First Secretary for Egypt's Ambassador in the United Nations, Political Consultant in the Egyptian Embassy in Russia in 1984, and moved into being the Ambassador of Egypt in Rome, Macedonia and San Marino, and by 1999 he was the head of Egypt's permanent delegation in the United Nations.

Old Cairo, located south of the centre, holds the remnants of Fustat and the heart of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, Coptic Cairo.

Cairo, as well as neighbouring, has been established as Egypt's main centre for medical treatment, and despite some exceptions, has the most advanced level of medical care in the country.

* The 1945 Cairo pogrom marked the start of a series of violent acts against Egypt's Jews.

* Trevor Mostyn, Egypt's Belle Epoque: Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006.

* Egypt's man from the past who insists he has a future, Jack Shenker in Cairo, The Guardian, May 19, 2011

In that capacity he traveled to Cairo in 1981 as Ireland's representative in Egypt's annual 6 October military victory parade.

The best sand dunes for sandboarding in Egypt include the Great Sand Sea near Siwa Oasis واحة سيوة in Egypt's Western Desert, the Qattaniya القطانية sand dunes ( 1. 5 hr drive on / off-road from Cairo to Bahariya Oasis ), El Safra الصفراء and Hadudah هدودة dunes midway between Dahab and St. Catherine in Sinai.

Egypt's home ground is Cairo International Stadium in Cairo and their head coach is Bob Bradley.

When the film aired at the 2005 Cairo International Film Festival, it left the audience split between those supporting the film ’ s calls for intellectual freedom and its anti-female circumcision stance, and those disapproved of either the title character ’ s desire to physically express herself through dance, or of the filming of scenes in the Cairo ’ s slums which could be seen to tarnish Egypt's international image.

Sha ` arawi's feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance.

Mahmoud Mukhtar's Egypt's Renaissance 1919-1928, Cairo University Gate

In France, he befriended members of the Wafd Party and was inspired to create the prototype of his famous statue, Nahdit Misr aka " Egypt's Renaissance ," which was initially unveiled in Ramses Square in 1928 and now stands opposite the Cairo University Bridge.

It was also controversial that so many scenes were filmed in Cairo ’ s slums, which could be seen to tarnish Egypt's international image.

Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha ( Lorient, France, November 23, 1799 — Cairo, July 9, 1883 ) was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831 – 1869, the chief engineer of the Suez Canal.

At his return to Cairo in 1831 Linant was named chief engineer of the public works of Upper Egypt, a position that associated him in a long and fruitful carteer with most of the great works of modernizing Egypt's network of irrigation canals, the grand levées along the Nile.

Home to most of Egypt's finest musical groups, it is located on the southern portion of Gezira Island in the Nile River, in the Zamalek district west of and near downtown Cairo.