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51 unusual facts about Cairo


'Abd al-'Aziz al-Wafa'i

He became a time keeper at the Mu'ayyad Mosque in Cairo.

6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry

The 6th West Virginia was mustered into Federal service on August 13, 1861, at Grafton, Mannington, Cairo, Parkersburg and Wheeling, in western Virginia.

Aadhi Haqeeqat, Aadha Fasana

Special Jury Award 1990, Filmfare critic award 1990, Jury prize at the second international film festival for children's held in 1991 at Cairo.

Abe and the Amazing Promise

Bob the Tomato reads a letter from Cairo, Illinois about "waiting" by directing a Bible-times interview with Abraham, Sarah and their promised son, Isaac.

Ahmad ibn Yusuf

He later moved to Cairo, but the exact date is unknown: since he was also known as al-Misri, which means the Egyptian, this probably happened at an early age.

Al-Mansour Automotive

The joint venture company operates under the name General Motors Egypt S.A.E. and is located in Cairo.

Alice Chisholm

She travelled to Egypt to be closer to him; when she arrived she noticed the lack of facilities for the troops and established a canteen in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis largely at her own expense.

Arab Observer

The Arab Observer was an English language weekly newsmagazine published from Cairo, Egypt between the years of 1960 and 1966.

Barakhamba

In this context, William Dalrymple, an Indophile, states that "only Rome, Istanbul and Cairo can even begin to rival Delhi for the sheer volume and density of historic remains".

Bünting Clover Leaf Map

Asia includes illustrations of nine cities, Europe includes one illustration of the Italian city Rome, and the continent of Africa includes illustrations of three cities with one being the Egyptian city Cairo.

Cairo Trilogy

To Kamal, the youngest son, Mahfouz admits that he gives him some features of himself, as they both have got a BA in philosophy from what is now the University of Cairo and have problems with profound contradictions they discern between religious principles and the scientific discoveries of the West.

Cairo, New York

Thurlow Weed, (1797–1882), born in Cairo, was a newspaper editor and political boss, who promoted, by turns (and sometimes simultaneously), the National Republican, Anti-Masonic, Whig and Republican parties.

Centura Public School

It was founded in 1967 and serves the communities of Cairo, Dannebrog, Boelus, and the surrounding areas.

Chihab al-Umari

al-Umari visited Cairo shortly after the Malian Mansa Kankan Musa I's pilgrimage to Mecca, and his writings are one of the primary sources for this legendary hajj.

Christianity in the 13th century

In the second phase, crusader forces achieved a remarkable feat in the capture of Damietta in Egypt in 1219, but under the urgent insistence of the papal legate, Pelagius, they launched a foolhardy attack on Cairo in July 1221.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

While the Contemporary Art scene is mainly concentrated in Cairo and Alexandria, it is developing fast with the emergence of spaces for artists, and support from the public and from abroad.

El Naddaha

It is quite popular in the Nile Delta, the northern agricultural-based area of Egypt, typically north to Cairo, where the Nile constitutes a main part of the environment.

Eliyahu Eliashar

Born in Jerusalem at a time when it was part of the Ottoman Empire, Eliashar studied medicine at the University of Beirut, as well as law in Cairo and Jerusalem.

Eotheroides

The type species, E. aegyptiacum, is known from the Lutetian Mokattam Limestone of Cairo, Egypt.

Eski Yurt

It was a large Muslim cemetery whose main object was the "maqam" (symbolical tomb) of Malik al-Ashtar en-Nahai (618-658), a companion of khalif Ali Ibn Abi Talib (618-657), actually buried in Cairo, Egypt.

Fatimid architecture

Three of the gates in the new walls have survived: Bab al-Nasr (1087), Bab al-Futuh (1087) and Bab Zuweila (1092).

Hasan M. El-Shamy

He received a B.A. with Honors in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959.

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During this period he was also an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at The American University in Cairo.

Helwan wax museum

The Helwan Wax Museum is a small public museum located in the suburb of Helwan, in Cairo, Egypt, close to the Ain Helwan Metro station.

Josef Spudich

He taught and coached in Sikeston, Missouri, Cairo and El Dorado Springs; then starting in 1942, at Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois, where he was head football coach from 1951–1954.

Kunhali Marakkar

Another version suggests that they were merchants of Cairo, Egypt who settled in Kozhikode and joined the Samoothiri's navy.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Operated with a Boeing 727-224, registration 5A-DAH, Flight 114 was an international scheduled Tripoli–Benghazi–Cairo passenger service.

Maki Tsukada

On September 2005, she won the bronze medal at the World judo championship games in Cairo, Egypt.

Maktoob

Maktoob today has more than 280 employees with offices in Amman, Dubai, Cairo, Riyadh, and Kuwait.

Mamluk architecture

Mamluk architecture was a flowering of Islamic art during the reign of the Mamluks (1250–1517 AD) which is most visible in medieval Cairo.

Mary of Lusignan, Countess of Brienne

Mary became a widow in October 1244 after Walter was murdered in Cairo.

Mehmed Orhan

Mehmed Orhan first married Nafiye Yeghen (Cairo, 1913 – ?) in January 1933 and later married Margaretha Irma Fournier in Paris in 1943.

Michel Bakhoum

He contributed to the design of several churches and the structural design for St. Mark Cathedral in Abassia, Cairo, Egypt.

Mohsen al-Sukkari

Mohsen al-Sukkari, is an Egyptian former police officer who, on 28 July 2008 murdered the well-known Lebanese artist Suzanne Tamim in Dubai, UAE on orders of Egyptian business tycoon and member of the Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa in return for $2 million paid by Moustafa, according to statements made by the murderer to the investigators in Cairo.

Paddy Mayne

Mayne was refused leave to attend the funeral and a story has him embarking on a drinking binge and rampage in central Cairo in an effort to find and beat up Richard Dimbleby, although Richard Dimbleby may have been in London at the time.

Pekan

Its students consistently further their studies in the esteemed Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

Penn effect

Of course, someone can only eat out locally, so regional price differentials can persist; the Oslo and Cairo branches are not in competition.

Rabia sign

The logo "R4BIA" is a symbolic representation of the name "Rabia", which is the name of a Muslim saint Rabia Al-Adawiya, also called Rabia Basri, after which a mosque in Cairo around which the sit-in was held is named.

Ravat v Halliburton Manufacturing and Services Ltd

Mr Ravat worked for Halliburton Ltd, one of 70 subsidiaries in the Halliburton Inc group, from 1990 to 2006 as the Libyan accounts manager, where he reported to the Operations Manager, or to the Africa Region Finance Manager, Mr Strachan, based in Cairo.

Rino Rossi

He was a judge at the Consular Court in Cairo in 1936, then seconded to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1940.

Rodney Dennys

Dennys joined the Foreign Service in 1937, serving in various intelligence posts, including Cairo and Paris.

Salah al-Deen Hafez

He was elected as General Secretary of the Union of Arab Journalists for one year in 1976 and after the headquarters were moved from Baghdad, Iraq to Cairo, Egypt, for more than a decade (1996- November 2008) until the time of his death.

Shia Islam in Egypt

The Shia Fatimids come to power in 969 CE in Egypt, they established the new capital called Cairo which was the seat of the Fatimid dynasty.

Shlomo Kleit

Kleit left Lithuania for political reasons and lived in Berlin, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Southern France and Toronto.

Short Empire

A new "Horseshoe Route" was established that ran from Auckland/Sydney via Cairo (following the old "Eastern Route") to Durban, South Africa, and thence by sea to Britain.

St Martin's Church, Brighton

The base of the pulpit contains olive wood collected from the Mount of Olives; and the font, built of Sussex marble and installed in 1907, contains a variety of other stones and marble from sites such as Cairo and Pompeii, brought back to England by Wagner himself during his lifetime.

St Wilfrid's Chapel, Church Norton

The 20th-century stained glass consists of a 1969 window by Carl Edwards, commemorating women and featuring an image of the now demolished All Saints Cathedral in Cairo, and a 1982 piece by Michael Farrar-Bell which portrays the nature reserve at Pagham Harbour and its animals and birds.

Stepan Pisakhov

The geography of Pisakhov’s active creative scope stretched from Novaya Zemlya to Cairo.

The miller, his son and the donkey

Many Nasreddin tales are also told of Goha in the Arab world, and sure enough, Goha features in a similar story, popular as a subject for the patchwork story cloths of the tentmakers of the Street of Tentmakers (Sharia al Khiyamiya) in Cairo.

Vincent, Count Benedetti

In 1840 he entered the service of the French foreign office, and was appointed to a post under the Marquis de la Valette, who was consul-general at Cairo.

Warsiguda

The famous Arts college building which is located in the campus is an architectural heritage structure designed mostly similar to College of Sultan Hassan in Cairo, Egypt built in 1363.


37th parallel north

Landmarks on the 37th parallel include Santa Cruz, California; Gilroy, California; Madera, California; Ubehebe Crater in Death Valley; Colorado City, Arizona; the Four Corners at the intersection with the 32nd meridian west from Washington (the only place where four U.S. states meet at a point); Cairo, Illinois; Bowling Green, Kentucky; and Newport News, Virginia.

Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

He started his early education in Tangier and traveled to Cairo and was a student of Azhar scholars such as Mahmoud Imam and Abdul Muuti Sharshimi.

Abu al-Salt

Upon completing his mathematical education in Seville, and because of the continuing conflicts during the reconquista, he set out with his family to Alexandria and then Cairo in 1096.

Abu Hatim Tayyib Ziyauddin

Throughout 2000, he visited Karbala, Shaam, Najaf, Kufa, Bait ul-Muqaddas, Cairo, and Yemen in a comprehensive tour, making him the first Mansoor ul-Yamane and Zaair il-Mashhadain il-'Azeemain to do so.

Al Karak

In 1389 Sultan Barquq was exiled to al-Karak where he gathered his supporters before returning to Cairo.

Asmaa

Asmaa (Hend Sabry) is a woman in her 40s living with her aging father Hosni (Sayed Ragab) and teenage daughter Habiba (Fatma Adel) in Cairo, and struggling to support them with her meagre earnings from a menial job at Cairo International Airport.

Assassination of Anwar Sadat

Sadat was buried in the Unknown Soldier Memorial, located in the Nasr City district of Cairo.

Bank of Athens

By 1922, the Bank of Athens had branches throughout Greece, as well as in Limassol and Nicosia in Cyprus, Alexandria, Cairo, and Port Said in Egypt, Galata, Stamboul and Pera in Constantinople, Adrianopolis in "the former Turkey in Europe", and London and Manchester in England.

Beit Saber

Medieval Muslim historian Abu'l Fida mentioned Beit Saber in the late 14th-century, during Mamluk rule in Syria.

Bill Kennedy Shaw

In October 1930 Kennedy Shaw accompanied Ralph Alger Bagnold on a trip from Cairo to Ain Dalla, into the sand sea, past Ammonite hill then past the Gilf Kebir south to Uweinat and on to Wadi Halfa, returning via the Arba’in slave road via Salima oasis, Kharga and then Aysut.

Buraidah

Qassim Regional Airport is the city's principal airport, connecting the city to several domestic and international cities such as Dubai and Cairo.

Cairo Celebration Choir

Also, many members of the Cairo Celebration Choir joined the A Capella Choir (Cairo Opera House Official Choir)in March 2006 for the performance of Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony known as the "Resurrection" under the baton of Gilbert Kaplan.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

Through history, traditions and national culture, contemporary artists were emerging mainly in Cairo and in Alexandria.

Coraopolis Bridge

John Baird had also been involved in the construction of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis and the Cairo bridge in Memphis, and had been employed by the McCann Construction Company, the Keystone Bridge Company and American Bridge Company.

Crest of the Royal Family

The main character is Carol, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American teenager from a wealthy family with an interest in Egyptology studying in Cairo.

David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas

Pinsker and Grätz, confounding him with Daniel ha-Babli of Cairo, make him a Mohammedan convert to Karaism, on the ground that he is quoted by Karaite scholars, and is called by Hadasi "ger ẓedeḳ" (pious proselyte).

Fashoda Incident

When one draws a line from Cape Town to Cairo (Rhodes' dream) and another line from Dakar to French Somaliland (now Djibouti) by the Red Sea in the Horn (the French ambition), these two lines intersect in eastern South Sudan near the town of Fashoda (present-day Kodok), explaining its strategic importance.

Fathy Salama

Soon the child of Shobra,'Compton of Cairo', made visits to Europe and to New York to learn Jazz with such great artists as Barry Harris, Sun Ra, Roman Bunka, Malik Osman, Hal Galper, Ossman Kareem and Pat Patrick.

Flight 705

PIA Flight 705, a Boeing 720-040B that crashed while descending to land at Cairo International Airport

Gateway Eastern Railway

Ownership passed to the St. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad, but in 1890 that company sold that segment to the Cairo, Vincennes and Chicago Railway, which became part of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway (Big Four) and eventually the New York Central Railroad and Conrail.

George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

For safety, the family moved outside Cairo to Maadi, where the children attended the Cairo American School (1952–53) and the Maadi Sporting Club.

Giannis Vardinogiannis

He is the principal shareholder of the Cairo-based Vegas Oil and Gas.

Horseshoe route

The route was disrupted in late April 1941 due to an uprising in Iraq which meant that the stop at Lake Habbaniyah was not available and there were no flights between Cairo and Basra in early May.

Ilyushin Il-38

In March 1968 a squadron of Il-38s deployed to Cairo in Egypt, flown by Soviet crews but in Egyptian markings, until being withdrawn in 1972.

Jehane Noujaim

The same year, before her graduation, Noujaim was awarded the Gardiner fellowship under which she directed Mokattam, an Arabic film about a garbage collecting village near Cairo in Egypt.

Jere L. Bacharach

The latter appeared as “Islamic History through Coins” Cairo: AUC Press, 2006, which was the co-winner of the 2007 Samir-Shamma-Prize of the Royal Numismatic Society of Great Britain for the best book in Islamic numismatics during the preceding two years.

Jock Sutherland

While on a scouting trip for the Steelers in April 1948, Sutherland was found in his car in Bandana, Kentucky, where he was experiencing confusion and was then taken to a hospital in Cairo, Illinois, where he was initially diagnosed with "nervous exhaustion".

Kazeboon

Kazeboon screenings began on December 29, 2011, taking place in public squares in El Mansheya, Alexandria and the Cairo districts of Zamalek, Maadi, Nasr City and Giza.

King David Hotel

Half the construction costs were paid by Ezra Mosseri, an affluent Egyptian Jewish banker and director of the National Bank of Egypt, and another 46% by other wealthy Cairo Jews.

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114

Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (LN 144) was a regularly scheduled flight from Tripoli to Cairo via Benghazi.

Lucette

Lucette Lagnado, American journalist and memoirist born in Cairo, Egypt

Mahdi Abdul Hadi

Furthermore, he was an active member in the Palestinian independent personality team which in many sessions worked towards Palestinian reconciliation and in 2011 Abdul Hadi witnessed the official signing of the Cairo reconciliation document, or Palestinian Prisoners' Document as it is also known.

Miguel Cairo

In February 2013 Cairo was named a special assistant to Cincinnati Reds General Manager Walt Jocketty, and in April 2013 it was announced that Cairo would fill in as Bench Coach during the absence of Mark Berry while Berry receives treatment for throat cancer.

Moses Israel

The authority of the Chief Rabbinate of Cairo extended to the Jewish communities of Port Said, Mansoura, Banha and Mit Ghamr, whereas Tanta, Damanhur and Kafr El-Zayat were under the jurisdiction of the Chief Rabbinate of Alexandria.

Mustapha Adamu Animashaun

As a steward in the Emir's palace, he was afforded the opportunity to travel to a few Northern Nigerian cities, he also lived in Cairo for five years.

Nigel Napier-Andrews

Nigel Napier-Andrews was born in England, and spent parts of his childhood in Wimbledon, Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya.

Omar 'The White Sudani' Ramzi

Since then he has been doing shows in all the major cities in Saudi Arabia and Egypt: Jeddah, Riyadh, Khobar, Cairo and Alexandria He has opened for several other world renowned stand-up comedians such as Ahmed Ahmed, Maz Jobrani, Angelo Tsarouchas, Dean Edwards, Jeff Mirza and Erik Griffin.

Operation Albumen

Aiming to disrupt these operations, British generals in Cairo sent three groups from the Special Boat Squadron (SBS) and one from Stirling's Special Air Service (SAS) to Crete to sabotage the airfields of Heraklion, Kastelli Pediados, Tympaki and Maleme.

Rehab City

At the North East side of New Cairo, at the intersection of the Eastern Ring Road with the Cairo/Suez Road, lies Al Rehab; ten minutes from Heliopolis and Nasr City, at the extension of Thawra street and Zakker Hussein street, from Nasr City, and 30 minutes from downtown Cairo.

Ronnie Khalil

His most popular lectures are “Success through C.O.M.E.D.Y.” and “Networking: How to Avoid Really Hard Work.” Both Khalil’s parents were university professors, and his father is currently President of Nile University in Cairo, Egypt.

Samir Amin

Subsequently Amin left Cairo, to become an adviser to the Ministry of Planning in Bamako (Mali) from 1960 to 1963.

Shajar al-Durr

Repulished in 5 volumes by Alhay'ah Almisriyah, Editor Gamal El-Ghitani, Cairo 1996, ISBN 977-01-4642-0

Stephen Emmel

He began graduate study with James M. Robinson, who took Emmel with him to Cairo, Egypt, in 1974 as a research assistant in the international project to publish the Coptic Gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices.

Torg

1930s technology worked side-by-side with Egyptian magical astronomy and "weird science" powers and gizmos, while costumed Mystery Men patrolled the alleyways of Cairo.

Westminster College, Cambridge

With the support of Solomon Schechter they made several more trips to the Middle East, locating the majority of the Genizah at the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo.