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41 unusual facts about Cairo


1999 Dreamland Egypt Classic

The 1999 Dreamland Egypt Classic was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Cairo, Egypt that was part of Tier III of the 1999 WTA Tour.

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.

Benoît Jules Mure

Benoît Jules Mure (May 15, 1809, Lyon — March 4, 1858, Cairo) was a French homeopath, naturalist, and anarcho-communist.

Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the Law Faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara.

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 Center for the Culture of Democracy

Among its recent acitivites is a workshop addressing the "Democratic Transformation in Egypt" conducted in seven different Egyptian cities: Al-areesh, Ras Sedr, Giza, Nuebaa', Bani Sewief, Alexandria and Cairo.

Cairo Trilogy

The books' Arabic titles are taken from actual streets in Cairo, the city of Mahfouz's childhood and youth.

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.

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.

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.

Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, American University in Cairo

The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC), at the American University in Cairo (AUC) located in Cairo, Egypt, specializes in the study of the rich tradition of Arabo-Islamic culture, thought, language, and history.

Eathorpe

Eathorpe Hall is the former home of Samuel Shepheard, whose principal claim to fame is that he built the original Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, Egypt.

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.

Emine Nazikeda

Emine Nazikeda (Emine Nazikedâ Marjim-Abaza Kadın Efendi; 9 October 1866 in Tzebelda, Abkhazia – 4 April 1941 in Cairo, Egypt), principal consort of sultan Mehmet VI, the last Ottoman Sultan.

Emporiki Bank

CBG expanded its international operations further by opening a branch in Alexandria in 1925, and another one in Cairo later.

Fatimid architecture

The wealth of Fatimid architecture was found in the main cities of Mahdia (921–948), Al-Mansuriya (948–973) and Cairo (973–1169).

Helwan HA-300

Development of the Egyptian HA-300 started in the test facilities and workshops in Factory No. 36 in Helwan, southeast of Cairo, under the supervision of the Egyptian General Aero Organisation (EGAO); officially the program started in 1959.

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.

Jurij Moskvitin

Moskvitin notably describes how he became friends with Karen Blixen, how he had his first sexual intercourse in Paris, his first great concert in Cairo, and his mother's aristocratic friends.

Kâmil Pasha

The ex-Grand Vizier (who probably was in danger of life) was invited by his British friend Lord Kitchener to stay with him in Cairo.

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 TripoliBenghaziCairo passenger service.

Maki Tsukada

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

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.

Nigel Napier-Andrews

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

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.

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.

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.

Sameera Moussa

After her mother's death, her father moved with his daughter to Cairo and invested his money in a small hotel in the El-Hussein region.

Shaware3na

Shaware3na is the launching project of Mahatat, a newly founded arts organization that started in 2011 as part of a post-revolutionary revival of the arts scene in Cairo.

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.

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.

Tankiz

Tankiz was appointed Viceroy of Syria (Na'ib al-Saltana al-Sham) by al-Nasir Muhammad, the Mamluk sultan of Cairo, in 1312.

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.

Uthman bin Ali Zayla'i

He eventually settled in Cairo, Egypt, where he joined other Somali students at the Riwaq al Zayla'i of the Al Azhar University.

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.

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.

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.

Attack in the Pacific

Chiang Kai-shek as Himself (at Cairo Conference) (archive footage)

Avro Andover

At the beginning of the 1920s, the Royal Air Force required a successor for the outdated Airco DH.10 that was used on the Cairo to Baghdad "Desert Air Route".

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.

Cairo Symphony Orchestra

Many international guest conductors such as Charles Munch, Yehudi Menuhin, Alexander Frey, Patrick Fournillier, Carlo Zecchi, Otakar Trhlik, Ole Schmidt, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Janos Kukla, Alain Pâris, Felix Carrasco, and others have led the Cairo Symphony Orchestra.

Cairo, West Virginia

The town was named by its earliest settlers, who were Scots Presbyterians, for the city of Cairo, Egypt, owing to the presence of water and fertile land at the site.

Collège de la Sainte Famille

The Collège de la Sainte Famille (CSF) (English: School of the Holy Family), (Arabic) مدرسة العائلة المقدسة often referred to as "Jésuites", is a private Jesuit French school for boys in the Faggala (preparatory and secondary section), Daher (primary section), and Heliopolis (primary section) districts of Cairo, Egypt.

Contemporary Art in Egypt

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

Crescent

These include: the flags of the kings of Damascus and Lucha (yellow with a white crescent); Cairo (white with a blue crescent); Mahdia in Tunisia (white with a purple crescent); Tunis (white with a black crescent); and Buda (white with a red crescent).

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).

Deira City Centre

Deira City Centre is owned by the Majid Al Futtaim group, and is one of six City Centre malls — the others are located in Ajman, Alexandria, Cairo, Muscat and Sharjah.

Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides

The Cairo International Scout Center is a lavish six-floor building next to Cairo International Stadium that welcomes all Scouts, nonScout organizations and individual guests.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ibn Taghribirdi

Jamal al-Din Yusuf bin al-Amir Sayf al-Din Taghribirdi (جمال الدين يوسف بن الأمير سيف الدين تغري بردي) or Ibn Taghribirdi (1410-1470 AD/813-874 Hijri) was an Egyptian historian born into the Turkish Mamluk elite of Cairo in the 15th century.

Illinois Route 150

SBI Route 150 originally ran from the U.S. 51/60/62 bridges south of Cairo north to Hamel (located northeast of Saint Louis, Missouri) on what is now Illinois Route 3, the portion of Illinois 150 from Chester to Steeleville, and Illinois Route 4.

João do Rio

In November, makes his third voyage to Europe, having visited Lisbon (where his play A Bela Madame Vargas – The Beautiful Madame Vargas – is staged with great success), Paris, Germany, Istanbul, Russia, Greece, Jerusalem and Cairo.

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.

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.

Maktoob

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

Marrack Goulding

In 1968, he was once more posted overseas, as the Head of Chancery of the British Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, and later of the Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

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.

Mounds, Illinois

Other blacks settled in the area in the late nineteenth century because of jobs available with the railroad in Pulaski and Cairo, Illinois.

Mourad Ismail

Mourad E. H. Ismail (born April 27, 1944, in Cairo, Egypt) is a mathematician working on orthogonal polynomials who introduced Al-Salam–Ismail polynomials, Chihara-Ismail polynomials and Rogers–Askey–Ismail polynomials.

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

In October 2009, Tantawy launched a campaign against the niqab (the full-face veil which covers the entire body except for the eyes, increasingly worn by women in Egypt) by personally removing the niqab of a teenage girl (after she failed to remove it) at a secondary school affiliated to Al-Azhar University, which he was touring in Cairo's Madinet Nasr suburb, much to the shock of all concerned.

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.

OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies

The scene at the Cairo airport was filmed in the entrance hall of a campus of Panthéon-Assas University.

Raneem El Weleily

Since January 2007 Raneem is being coached by Coach Cherine Adel 5 days a week in Cairo coupled with weekday time with Amir Wagih.

Saint Bashnouna

Having refused, Bashnouna was burned alive on 24 Pashons, 880 A.M. (19 May 1164 AD) His relics were buried at the Church of Saint Sergius in Cairo.

Siege of Tobruk

During the withdrawal, his staff car was stopped by a German patrol near Martuba and both he and O'Connor (who had been sent forward from Cairo by Archibald Wavell, C-in-C Middle East Command to advise) were taken prisoner.

The Rhodes Colossus

Rhodes measures with the telegraphic line the distance from Cape Town (at his right foot) in South Africa to Cairo (at his left foot) in Egypt, illustrating his broader "Cape to Cairo" concept for British domination of Africa.

Trading Diaspora

As Gosch explains “premodern world system was to some extent an “archipelago of towns” in which urban centers in Europe (Bruges, Ghent, Genoa and Venice), the Middle East (Cairo, Aden, and Hormuz), and Asia (Samarkand, Calicut, Kanchipuram, Malacca, Quanzhou and Hangzhou) were connected to one another by trade and shared in a common culture of commerce.