In 1999, at a meeting in Cairo, the DFLP and the PFLP agreed to cooperate with the PLO leadership in final status negotiations with Israel.

Conceived by the Arab states at the first Arab summit meeting, the 1964 Arab League summit ( Cairo ), its stated goal was the " liberation of Palestine " through armed struggle.

Arafat with Fatah officials in public meeting with President of Egypt | Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for the first time in Cairo, approximately eight months after Arafat becomes Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, 1969

Arafat at the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) meeting in Cairo, December 1970.

By September 22, Arab foreign ministers meeting at Cairo had arranged a cease-fire beginning the following day.

At the Cairo Conference on November 22, 1943, it was agreed that " in due course Korea shall become free and independent ”; at a later meeting in Yalta in February 1945, it was agreed to establish a four-power trusteeship over Korea.

O ' Shaughnessy becomes nervous, and asks Spade to arrange a meeting with Cairo.

In order to engineer this urgently needed meeting, Roosevelt tried to persuade Stalin to travel to Cairo to attend such a meeting.

* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A think tank affiliated with the Arab League ended its meeting in Cairo by calling Jews " enemies of all nations ", by claiming that Arabs, as Semites, cannot be anti-Semitic, and by claiming that the events of September 11, 2001 were concocted by the United States government.

On 9 February 1948, four days after the Damascus meeting, he suffered a severe setback at the Arab League's Cairo session, when his demands for more Palestinian self-determination for Palestine's fate were rejected.

* Cairo Conference, a meeting between the Allied position against Japan during World War II

At the February 1969 meeting in Cairo, Yasser Arafat was appointed leader of the PLO.

In January 1943, Roosevelt accompanied FDR as a military attaché to the Casablanca meeting and the subsequent Cairo and Tehran Conferences in November-December 1943.

" Following Obama's Cairo speech Netanyahu immediately called a special government meeting.

In Cairo the Cabal negotiates with d ' Arcachon's men for a meeting with the duc himself ; as an inducement for this meeting they offer to hand over Jack.

In November 2007, al-Jubeir joined Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal for the meeting of the Arab League Foreign Ministers in Cairo in preparation for the Annapolis Peace Conference.

On July 17, 1964, Malcolm X was welcomed to the second meeting of the Organization of African Unity in Cairo as a representative of the OAAU.

Initially meeting with the refusal of Iuliu Maniu and Dinu Brătianu ( who decided to invest their trust in Ştirbey ), he was relatively successful after the Cairo initiative proved fruitless: the two traditional parties accepted collaboration with the bloc formed by the PCR, the Romanian Social Democratic Party, the Ploughmen's Front, and the Socialist Peasants ' Party, leading to the formation of the short-lived and unstable National Democratic Bloc ( BND ) in June 1944.

Following a meeting in Cairo, Egypt between Ben-Ami and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, the talks were then moved to Taba from January 21 to January 27, 2001.

It with the two earlier universities of this kind, Cairo University ( Fuad I university ) and Alexandria University ( Farouk I university ) had fulfilled the message of universities and meeting the increasing demand of youth for higher education.

The Allied leaders of the Pacific War | Asian and Pacific: Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference ( 1943 ) | Cairo Conference in 1943

When Dag Hammarskjold was negotiating the Middle East peace after Israel's 1956 invasion of Egypt, he soon found himself speaking the mysterious phrases of Cairo, a language as anarchic as Casey Stengel's.

The reports of President Nasser's pledges which Hammarskjold was relaying from Cairo to Washington became increasingly incomprehensible to other diplomats, including the Israeli Foreign Minister, Mrs. Golda Meir.

At this time, Ifriqiya was in ferment, the Zirid ruler al-Muizz ibn Badis, was openly contemplating breaking with his Shi ' ite Fatimid overlords in Cairo, and the jurists of Kairouan were agitating for him to do so.

In 1167, Nur ad-Din sent Shirkuh back to Egypt and Amalric once again followed him, establishing a camp near Cairo ; Shawar again allied with Amalric and a treaty was signed with the caliph al-Adid himself.

After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.

Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo.

The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East, and 43rd globally by Foreign Policys 2010 Global Cities Index.

For nearly 200 years after Cairo was established, the administrative centre of Egypt remained in Fustat.

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.

The city's status was further diminished after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, thereby allowing spice traders to avoid Cairo.

Still, when Napoleon arrived in Cairo in 1798, the city's population was less than 300, 000, forty percent lower than it was at the height of Mamluk — and Cairene — influence in the mid-14th century.

The city was devastated during the 1952 Cairo Fire, also known as Black Saturday, which saw the destruction of nearly 700 shops, movie theatres, casinos and hotels in Downtown Cairo.

In 1992, Cairo was hit by a damaging earthquake, that caused 545 deaths, 6512 injuries and left 50, 000 people homeless.

Until the mid-19th century, when the river was tamed by dams, levees, and other controls, the Nile in the vicinity of Cairo was highly susceptible to changes in course and surface level.

* IOI 2008 was held in Cairo, Egypt, August 16 – 23, 2008 ( results )

His sons claimed various parts of his empire: az-Zahir took control of Aleppo, al-Aziz Uthman held Cairo, while his eldest son, al-Afdal, retained Damascus.

The Ayyubid dynasty held a council upon the revelation of his preparations to discuss the possible threat and Saladin collected his own troops outside Cairo.

As a result, the Egyptian capital has been dubbed the " Hollywood of the Middle East ", where the world-renowned Cairo International Film Festival is held every year.

Nasser blamed the Arab nationalist defeat on the Communists and upon returning to Cairo, he dismissed and arrested many Communists who held influential positions in the press and government, including his old comrade Khaled Mohieddine, who had been allowed reentry into Egypt in 1956.

" Later in 1964, Nasser was made president of the Non-Aligned Movement ( NAM ) and held the second conference of the organization in Cairo that same year.

The Cairo Conference from 22 to 26 November 1943 in Cairo, Egypt was held to address the Allied position against Japan during World War II, and to make decisions about postwar Asia.

The Turkish forces of the Fatimid army would end up seizing most of Cairo held the city and Caliph at ransom while the Berbers troops and remaining Sudanese forces roam the other parts of Egypt, making an already bad situation much worse.

Raphael Joseph Halabi (" of Aleppo ") was a wealthy and influential Jew who held the high position of mint-master and tax-farmer in Cairo under the Ottoman government.

The Cairo Conference ( codenamed Sextant ) of November 22 – 26, 1943, held in Cairo, Egypt, addressed the Allied position against Japan during World War II and made decisions about postwar Asia.

In 1979, he was appointed Professor of International Law and International Relations at Cairo University, a position which he held until 1999.

Upon Saladin's death, az-Zahir took Aleppo from al-Adil per the arrangement and al-Aziz Uthman held Cairo, while his eldest son, al-Afdal retained Damascus — which also included Palestine and much of Lebanon.

* Fifth All-Africa Games held in Cairo, Egypt

* Fourth Pan Arab Games held in Cairo, Egypt

Additionally, in 1932, at the Cairo Congress of Arab Music held in Cairo, Egypt-and attended by such Western luminaries as Béla Bartók and Henry George Farmer-experiments were done which determined conclusively that the notes in actual use differ substantially from an even-tempered 24-tone scale.

The crusaders occupied Alexandria and Cairo and made Egypt a tributary state, but Amalric could not hold the country while Nur ad-Din still held Syria, and he was forced to return to Jerusalem.

The Cairo Conference of 1921 was held to determine the political and geographic structure of what would become Iraq and the modern Middle East.

In 1833 de Lesseps was sent as consul to Cairo, and soon afterwards given the management of the consulate general at Alexandria, a post that he held until 1837.

Nine months after being invited as a future member ( a record time by any airline joining an alliance ), EgyptAir became the 21st member of Star Alliance in a ceremony held in Cairo on 11 July 2008.

Subsequent sessions were held in Cairo ( 1965 ), Gaza ( 1966 ), Cairo ( 1968 – 1977 ), Damascus ( 1979 – 1981 ), Algiers ( 1983 ), Amman ( 1984 ), Algiers ( 1988 ), Gaza ( 1996 and 1998 ), Ramallah ( 2009 )