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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 ...
1092 – City wall and Gates of Cairo built (including Bab Zuweila and Bab al-Nasr). 1125 – Aqmar Mosque built. 1154 – Al-Hussein Mosque built. 1160 – Al-Salih Tala'i Mosque built. 1168 – Egypt's capital moved from Fustat to Cairo. 1176 – Cairo was unsuccessfully attacked in the Crusades. [1] 1183 – Saladin Citadel built.
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 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.
Shajar al-Durr, using her status as Sultan al-Salih’s favorite wife, was a notable architectural patron in Cairo. Architectural patronage served to establish power and legitimacy, for "as a woman, former slave, and an affine (related through marriage but not blood) of the Ayyubid household, her position could not be anything but precarious". [6]
The book was made into a film of the same name in 2006 and into a TV series in 2007. Published in Arabic in 2002 and in an English translation in 2004, the book, ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War , is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the Revolution of 1952 .
Cairo was later built in the year 986 to grow to ... Cairo was voted the most dangerous megacity for women with more than 10 million ... that is, the book ...
The library houses over 50,000 books and volumes, including rare works on ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern archaeology, along with other specialized fields. Some of its most significant books include Description de l'Égypte, Antiquités de l'Égypte et de la Nubie, and Lepsius' works. The library also contains a rare collection ...