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Cairo, the Khedival Library The Egyptian National Library was proposed by minister Ali Pasha Mubarak, minister of public works, to Khedive Ismail in 1870. The library, which was known then as Khedivial Kutub Khana, was first located at the ground floor of Prince Mustafa Fadel's palace in Darb Al Gamamiz.
The Cairo Geniza is an accumulation of almost 200,000 Jewish manuscripts that were found in the genizah of the Ben Ezra Synagogue (built 882) of Fustat, Egypt (now Old Cairo), the Basatin cemetery east of Old Cairo, and a number of old documents that were bought in Cairo in the later 19th century. These documents were written from about 870 to ...
1961 – Cairo Tower built. 1963 – Cairo International Airport opens. [15] 1964 – January: 1964 Arab League summit (Cairo) held. [4] 1965 – Population: 3.3 million. [16] 1966 – Cairo Opera Ballet Company founded. 1967 – Bab Moshé (Ibn Maimoun) Synagogue restored. [3] 1968 – Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral built. 1969 ...
Another notable writer in Cairo is Youssef Ziedan, who has both published novels and works of nonfiction. His study called Arab Theology and the Roots of Religious Violence (2010), was one of the more widely read books in Cairo in the months before the January 25 Revolution.
May 1, 2003: The American University in Cairo Press Bibliotheca Alexandrina: August 1, 2003: The American University in Cairo Press Egyptian Museum Collections Around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo: September 1, 2003: The American University in Cairo Press Secret from the Sand: My Search for Egypt's Past ...
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Islamic Cairo (Arabic: قاهرة المعز, romanized: Qāhira al-Muʿizz, lit. 'Al-Mu'izz's Cairo'), or Medieval Cairo, officially Historic Cairo (القاهرة التاريخية al-Qāhira tārīkhiyya), refers mostly to the areas of Cairo, Egypt, that were built from the Muslim conquest in 641 CE until the city's modern expansion in the 19th century during Khedive Ismail's rule, namely ...
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