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The 2011 Egyptian revolution, also known as the 25 January Revolution (Arabic: ثورة ٢٥ يناير, romanized: Thawrat khamsa wa-ʿišrūn yanāyir;), [20] began on 25 January 2011 and spread across Egypt. The date was set by various youth groups to coincide with the annual Egyptian "Police holiday" as a statement against increasing police ...
The Egyptian Crisis (Arabic: الأزمة المصرية, romanized:al-ʿazma al-Maṣriyya) was a period that started with the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and ended with beginning of the presidency of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2014. It was a tumultuous three years of political and social unrest, characterized by mass protests, a series of ...
Tahrir Square at night during the "Day of Revolt". On 25 January 2011, known as the " Day of Anger " (Arabic: يوم الغضب yawm al-ġaḍab, Egyptian Arabic: [ˈjoːm elˈɣɑdɑb]) [8] or the "Day of Revolt", [9] protests took place in different cities across Egypt, including Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and Ismaïlia. [9]
losses. Unification Wars of Upper Egypt (c. 3600–3200 BC) Thinis. Naqada. Thinis victory. Scorpion I unified Upper Egypt. The Upper Crown of Egypt would then become the symbol of a united Upper Egypt under one ruler. Scorpion I. Unknown,but in the thousands.
From September 48 BC until January 47 BC, Caesar was besieged in Alexandria, Egypt with about 4,000 men. He was attempting to resolve the Egyptian Civil War between Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra. When Caesar began to appear to favour Cleopatra over him, Ptolemy was first captured, but then released by Caesar, and gathered his army to ...
The 9 October attack was committed by both the Egyptian police force and military police [133] using live ammunition, [134] vehicles to run over protesters [135] and extensive rounds of tear gas were fired. [133] The Army also stormed Al-Hurra TV station and 25 January TV stations, and took them off air. [136]
The history of Egypt under Anwar Sadat covers the eleven year period of Egyptian history from Anwar Sadat 's election as President of Egypt on 15 October 1970, following the death of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, to Sadat's assassination by Islamist fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Though presenting himself as a Nasserist during ...
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