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The Egyptian National Library and Archives (Arabic: دار الكتب والوثائق القومية; "Dar el-Kotob") is located in Nile Corniche, Cairo and is the largest library in Egypt, followed by Al-Azhar University and the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (New Library of Alexandria). The Egyptian National Library and Archives are a non-profit ...
Huda Sha'rawi without mantle in her office [1]. Huda Sha'arawi or Hoda Sha'rawi (Arabic: هدى شعراوي, ALA-LC: Hudá Sha‘rāwī; 23 June 1879 – 12 December 1947) was a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragette, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union.
The first women's specific march against the occupation happened on March 16, 1919, and was principally organised by Hoda Shaawari, around 300 Egyptian women attended. [5] "The veiled gentlewomen of Cairo paraded in the streets shouting slogans for independence and freedom from foreign occupation.
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 ...
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 ...
The House of Knowledge (Arabic: دار العلم, romanized: Dār al-ʿIlm) was an ancient university built by the Fatimid Caliphate in Cairo in 1004 CE. Originally a library, the House of Knowledge was converted to a state university by the Fatimid Imam-Caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in the same year.
Qasim Amin. Qasim Amin (pronounced [ˈʔæːsem ʔæˈmiːn], Egyptian Arabic: قاسم أمين ; 1 December 1863 – 12 April 1908) [1] was an Egyptian jurist, [2] Islamic Modernist [3] and one of the founders of the Egyptian national movement and Cairo University.
About 43% of Egypt's residents live across the country's urban areas, [243] with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta. Egypt's people are highly urbanised, being concentrated along the Nile (notably Cairo and Alexandria), in the Delta and near the Suez Canal.