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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 ...
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]
The 1968 protests in Egypt involved general strikes and protests against Gamal Abdel Nasser 's government, demanding an end to corruption. On 9 June 1967, Nasser had resigned after Israel defeated Egypt in the Six-Day War. The next day, hundreds of thousands of his supporters rallied him to stay.
This was the deadliest act of violence against Egypt's Christian minority in a decade, since the Kosheh massacre in 2000 left 21 Copts dead. [3] January 25 – The start of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: An ongoing series of street demonstrations, riots, and violent clashes began on this day, selected to coincide with the National Police Day ...
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 ...
On 22–26 July 1952, the Free Officers, a group of disaffected officers in the Egyptian army founded by Gamal Abdel Nasser, and headed by General Muhammad Naguib, initiated the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 with the overthrowing King Farouk, whom the military blamed for Egypt's poor performance in the 1948 War with Israel and lack of progress in fighting poverty, disease, and illiteracy in ...
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.
Sharif lived in Egypt from his birth until he moved to Europe in 1965. [74] He recounted that in 1932, his father "wasn't a wealthy man", but "earned quite a bit of money". [75] Before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, King Farouk frequented Sharif's family home, and became a friend and card-game partner of Sharif's mother. His mother was an ...