" In early October, the United Nations Security Council ( UNSC ) met on the matter of the canal's nationalization and adopted a resolution recognizing Egypt's right to control the canal as long as it continued to allow passage through it for foreign ships.

Herman te Velde dates the demonization of Set to after Egypt's conquest by several foreign nations in the Third Intermediate and Late Periods.

Monumental buildings were erected under their supervision, administrative and economic activities were documented by them, and tales from the mouths of Egypt's lower classes or from foreign lands survive thanks to scribes putting them in writing.

Some Egyptologists have suggested that Maahes was of foreign origin ; indeed there is some evidence that he may have been identical with the lion-god Apedemak worshipped in Nubia and Egypt's Western Desert.

He often had to consider claims for Egypt's gold and requests for his royal daughters in marriage from foreign kings such as Tushratta of Mitanni and Kadashman-Enlil I of Babylon.

Moussa has been heavily involved with Egypt's foreign policy since 1958.

Encouraged by Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser ( r. 1954 – 71 ), their role was to gain foreign support for the rebellion and to acquire arms, supplies, and funds for the wilaya commanders.

Under his rule local officials banned the sale of alcohol except at places catering to foreign tourists in more than half of Egypt's 26 governorates.

Various leaders, including the president of Afghanistan, Farouk al Sharaa, the vice-president of Syria, the Iranian foreign minister and the head of Egypt's ruling military council, participated in the funeral.

Harsh repressive measures by the Egyptian government and the unpopularity of the killing of foreign tourists have reduced the group's profile in recent years but the movement retains popular support among Egyptian Islamists who disapprove of the secular nature of Egypt's society and peace treaty with Israel.

On his return he was made Egypt's first minister of public works, and was distinguished for the energy which he threw into the creation of a new department ; but in 1866 he was made minister of foreign affairs, and at once went on a special mission to Constantinople, where he succeeded in the other two projects that had been left in abeyance since his last visit.

Two copper statues of Pepi I and his son Merenre were found at Hierakonpolis ; they are thought to depict the two royals symbolically " trampling underfoot the Nine bows ," a stylized representation of Egypt's conquered foreign subjects.

The Saudi Binladin Group is Egypt's largest private foreign company and negotiated with the Lebanese government to rebuild part of central Beirut under a US $ 50 million contract.

Shabaka succeeded in preserving Egypt's independence from outside foreign powers especially the Assyrian empire under Sargon II.

Infitah ended the domination of Egypt's economy by the public sector and encouraged both domestic and foreign investment in the private sector.

The profound insult of the foreign rule to the honour and integrity of Egypt could be corrected, and its recurrence prevented, only by extending Egypt's hegemony over the Asiatics to the north and east of Egypt.

He said foreign policy should be based on Egypt's interests, including " holding Israel accountable when it does not respect its obligations.

Egypt's policy on Sudan is that it is in favor of a united Sudan.

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.

Egypt's policy on Sudan is in favor of a united Sudan.

Egypt's artillery corps encountered difficulty in penetrating the Bar-Lev forts and eventually adopted a policy of trying to catch Israeli troops at the exterior parts of the forts.

Sadat's presidency saw many changes in Egypt's direction, reversing some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by breaking with Soviet Union to make Egypt an ally of the United States, initiated the peace process with Israel, re-instituting the multi-party system and abandoning socialism by launching the Infitah economic policy.

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.

It operates charter flights from Egypt's tourist destinations to Europe, regular charters to the Middle East as well as domestic flights.

Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse ( 1888 ) Mark Antony – one of the Triumvirs of Rome along with Octavian and Lepidus – has neglected his soldierly duties after being beguiled by Egypt's Queen, Cleopatra.

Between 5500 and 3100 BC, during Egypt's Predynastic Period, small settlements flourished along the Nile, whose delta empties into the Mediterranean Sea.

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.

Egypt's only attempt to establish parliamentary institutions along European lines was short lived.

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.

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.

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.

During his appointment, he and his cabinet operated at a level that was unprecedented in Egypt's modern history.

Under Amasis or Ahmose II, Egypt's agricultural based economy reached its zenith.

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.

Egypt's final surrender following Cleopatra's death also marks the final demise of both the Hellenistic Period and the Ptolemaic Kingdom.

Egypt's capital was permanently moved to Cairo, which was eventually expanded to include the ruins of Fustat and the previous capitals of al-Askar and al-Qatta ' i. While the Fustat fire successfully protected the city of Cairo, a continuing power struggle between Shawar, King Amalric I of Jerusalem, and Zengid general Shirkuh led to the downfall of the Fatimid establishment.

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.

Nevertheless, while this led to Egypt's independence in 1922, British troops remained in the country until 1956.

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

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.

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.

More than 2, 900 km of coastline on the Mediterranean Sea, the Gulf of Suez, the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea constitute Egypt's maritime boundaries.

The Western Desert covers an area of some 700, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, thereby accounting for around two-thirds of Egypt's total land area.

The 1996 census counted 57 percent of Egypt's population as rural, including those residing in agricultural areas in the Nile Valley and Delta, as well as the much smaller number of persons living in desert areas.

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

* ** Egypt's southern-most point lies in the Bir Tawil region, an area that is commonly included as part of Egypt but is not claimed by it.

In 2012, presidential elections resulted in the election of Mohammed Morsi as Egypt's fifth President.

* Egypt: A Nation in Waiting ( Al Jazeera documentary focusing on past trends in Egypt's political history and protests.

In the 1990s, a series of International Monetary Fund arrangements, coupled with massive external debt relief resulting from Egypt's participation in the Gulf War coalition, helped Egypt improve its macroeconomic performance.

Egypt's gains from annual growth rates benefited the rich and failed to trickle down and reduce the poverty which increased to about 50 % in 2011 leading to socioeconomic political instability and popular revolution on 25 January 2011.

The Egyptian Air Defense Command or ADF ( Quwwat El Diffaa El Gawwi in Arabic ) is Egypt's military command responsible for air defense.

" This has strained relations with Egypt's southern neighbors, and with Israel and the members of the EU as these immigrants attempt to move on to wealthier countries.