It was during his reign that Egypt's enemy Assyria at last invaded Egypt.

However, Ay's plan for his succession went awry since Horemheb became the last king of Egypt's 18th Dynasty instead of Nakhtmin.

Omdas Sheikh Qamhat Khawr al ` allaqi was last remnant of one of Egypt's oldest surviving lineages.

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.

When Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Naguib Mahfouz died in 2006, many Egyptians felt that perhaps the last of the Greats of Egypt's golden age had died.

Egypt's political and economic decline continued unabated during Ramesses VI's reign ; he is the last king of Egypt's New Kingdom whose name is attested in the Sinai.

The opposition won 15. 1 % of the seats in the 1924 election, 18. 9 % in 1926, 6. 9 % in 1929, 18. 1 % in 1936, 12. 1 % in 1942, and 29. 2 % in the 1950 election, the last to be held prior to the 1952 Revolution which ended Egypt's multi-party system.

The office continued in existence until 525 BC under Nitocris ' successor, Ankhnesneferibre, when the Persians overthrew Egypt's last Saite ruler, Psamtik III ( 526 – 525 BC ), and enslaved his daughter.

Sebennytos was also the hometown Nectanebo II, Egypt's last native ruler.

Under Egypt's temporary constitution, the People's Assembly elected in these elections will have legislative powers and will be able to interpellate ministers.

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

The People's Assembly, which is usually characterised as the lower house of Egypt's quasi-bicameral legislature, is constitutionally empowered to question and even challenge presidential authority.

The Egyptian presidential election of 2005, held on September 7, 2005, was the first allegedly contested presidential election in Egypt's history.

These associations gave the Brotherhood a platform from which to criticise Egypt's lack of free parliamentary and presidential elections and the use of torture in prisons, and to call for the repeal of the emergency law.

Egypt's emergency law imposes drastic limits on legal political opposition, and it is widely believed that elections are routinely rigged in favour of the government.

In the 1980s and early 1990s, more and more of the members of Egypt's leading professional associations were economically disadvantaged university graduates ; their votes helped Brotherhood candidates gain large majorities on the executive boards of several of these associations, such as those representing lawyers, doctors, pharmacists, scientists and engineers, defeating government, secular, and militant Islamic candidates in open, competitive elections.

* November 21 – The United Nations Security Council recommends Egypt's deputy prime minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations.

A few months later in November, al-Jihad made another bombing attempt, this time to kill Egypt's prime minister, Atef Sidqi.

Egypt's chief archaeologist Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, announced, on November 11, 2008, that she was entombed, in a 4, 300-year-old headless 5 metre ( 16-foot-tall ) Saqqara most complete subsidiary pyramid.

On 24 November 2011, Egypt's military rulers appointed him as Prime Minister.

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.

* Playing the popularity game ( November 27, 2003 )-Article by Sami Moubayed in Egypt's Al-Ahram Weekly, which mentions her father Nabil Salameh and his disappearance.

The two legs of the final were played on 28 October and 12 November, with Egypt's Al-Ahly coming out as 3-0 aggregate winners.

On 11 December 2009 Egypt's regulator approved an offer from a unit of France Telecom ( Orange ) to buy Mobinil.

Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit opened on December 26, 2010, the first Egyptian consulate outside Baghdad in the northern city of Irbil in a one-day visit to Iraq, where he also held talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Egypt's early gains in the war were reversed when, on 22 December 1948, the Israeli army, in " Operation Horev " drove Egyptian forces out of the Negev and encircled the Egyptian Forces in the Gaza Strip, forcing Egypt to withdraw and accept a ceasefire.

On December 28, 1948 Egypt's prime minister was assassinated by Brotherhood member and veterinary student Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan, in what is thought to have been retaliation for the government crackdown.

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.

Ihab el-Sherif ( January 1954-July 2005 ) served as Egypt's ambassador to Iraq until Iraqi kidnappers murdered him in July 2005.

" The Deputy chief of Egypt's largest party, the Muslim Brotherhood, has said that they will not recognize Israel's right to exist, the treaty is non-binding, and will be put to a referendum.

In the October Paper, Sadat reaffirmed his commitment to establishing a constitutional democratic government, preserving Egypt's socialist character, and rejecting the " theory of the single party " and acknowledged calls for a multi-party system.

It was said to be Egypt's most popular and influential political party for a period in the 1920s and 30s.

In 2007 it distributed a draft program for its proposed political party which called for a ban on women or Christians as Egypt's president, and for a special council of Islamic clerics to vet parliamentary legislation.

The party " rejects the candidacy of women or Copts for Egypt's presidency " but not for cabinet positions.

The Arab Democratic Nasserist Party ( Al-Hizb Al -' Arabi Al-Dimuqrati Al-Nasseri ) is a Nasserist political party in Egypt, styling itself as the ideological successor of the old Arab Socialist Union party of Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Egypt's anthem, Bilady, Bilady, Bilady (" My Homeland, My Homeland, My Homeland ") was played when Egypt won a gold medal.

Ramesses III was also compelled to fight invading Libyan tribesmen in two major campaigns in Egypt's Western Delta in his Year 6 and Year 11 respectively.

Egypt's Old Kingdom ( Dynasties 3 – 6, ca.

) As a result of the Camp David Accords, Sadat — considered a pariah and traitor — was assassinated three years later on October 6, 1981, during a military parade, commemorating Egypt's " victory " over Israel in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

He was also compelled to fight invading Libyan tribesmen in two major campaigns in Egypt's Western Delta in his Year 6 and Year 11 respectively.

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

Freedom House ranks Egypt's Political Rights Score 6 and Civil Liberties Score 5, with 1 being the most free and 7 being the least free.

This crackdown is often cited in conjunction with Egypt's peace with Israel as a step leading to his assassination by Islamists on 6 October 1981.

In an interview which aired on Egypt's CBC TV on October 6, 2011 ( as translated by MEMRI ), El-Sharif claimed that " when it comes to the Holocaust, there is no freedom of speech.

* Profile: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera English, February 6, 2011

A few days later, Khalid was assigned to be part of a military parade scheduled for October 6 to commemorate the eighth anniversary of Egypt's attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur War, and used the opportunity to conspire with fellow members of Jihad to carry out an assassination.