Cairo

miles of roads and only 31,000 miles of those are actually paved. With the ever-growing population in Egypt, some of those areas become highly congested. Consequently, Egypt has high-reported fatalities from traffic accidents. In the late 80’s Cairo built a metro system that now carries 1.4 million people, making it one of the most heavily used public transportation systems in the world. Remarkably, for its size, there are 90 airports located within Egypt and they have their own airline that…

Egyptian history. He was born on January 15th, 1918 in Bakos, Egypt. During Abdel Nasser’s childhood, Egypt was a monarchy which was controlled by the British, during the age of imperialism in Africa. Abdel Nasser group up with his uncle in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. Cairo is also where Abdel Nasser received his primary and secondary schooling. While not much has been made public about Abdel Nasser’s childhood, one major aspect of his early life has been made overwhelmingly clear; ever since…

KARNAK TEMPLE Karnak temple is one of the largest religious buildings located at Luxor, south of Cairo, Egypt. (Frederick Monderson, 2007 Page10-Page12) In fact, Karnak temple is the modern name while the ancient name was Ipet-isut and the meaning of this temple is “The most sacred of places”. The temple’s covering is about 200 acres and this huge temple has 2000 years history. The Open Air Museum is at the north of the first courtyard. Next, Karnak temple was separate in three parts…

The film Purple Rose of Cairo (dir. Woody Allen, 1985) is based around the dynamic relationship between Cecilia (Mia Farrow), Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels), and Gil Shepherd (Jeff Daniels). Cecilia is torn between 2 men that look almost identical if it was not for their attire, but whom of which differ in personalities. In a historical context, the film takes place in the midst of the Great Depression era which adds to the complexity of Cecilia’s love triangle. Through a combination of deep focus…

About 3,500 years. Some 600 miles up the Nile valley, south of Cairo, you come upon the Valley of the Kings. Here the pharaohs made secret tombs in the sides of mountains. The Valley of the Kings is one of the most isolated spots on earth. Almost nothing grows there – no tree, no shrub, no blade of grass. The sun hits down from an everlastingly clear sky whose bright blue is the only colour divergence to the dull, constant dark gold rock and sand, hills and valley floor. All along the desert…

When I first think of Egypt all I can picture are the pyramids located there and miles of hot desert. I learned a lot about Ancient Egypt while I was in school. I also watched many documentaries about Ancient Egyptian history and the pyramids themselves. I never pictured people living there or even imagined anyone living in Egypt. The only people I imagined to be in Egypt were archaeologists and tourists. But, approximately 92 million people do call Egypt home. In movies and documentaries, Egypt…

This chapter, except for the section on the Hazaras in the early Ismaili literature, has already been published under the title of ‘The Shi‘a Ismaʿili Da‘wat in Khurasan: From Its Early Beginning to the Ghaznawid Era’, at the Journal of Shʿia Islamic Studies, 2015, Vol. VIII, No. 1, pp. 37-59. In several qaṣīdas of his dīwān (1956), Farrukhī praises Sulṭān Maḥmūd Ghaznawī as the King of Zāwulistān. For further details see, Baiza, Y. (2014) The Hazaras of Afghanistan and their Shiʿa…

Overview Throughout human history, people have sought areas where fresh water is found. Water meant drinking, bathing, cooking, and farming- it meant life. This explains why Egypt was referred to as ‘The Gift of the Nile’ where all its richness and prosperity is owed to the Nile that turned a portion of the desert country into arable land. Also, this is why most of the Egyptian population cluster up in 4% of the vast Egyptian land (UN, 2005). Add to that the availability of services and hence…

“Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, [and] becoming more complicated” – Arthur Keith. This is the case of Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire, two magnificent civilizations wrapped in a twisted fate. It was when the Roman Republic defeated Egypt’s army that it became a prosperous empire. Even though Ancient Egypt existed thousands of years before the start of the Roman Empire, both civilizations strikingly shared common…

In order to start a successful civilization, you must have five things: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region. You must choose a good location because your location will influence the skills and ideas. For example, using the ideas and skills from your neighboring tribe to survive. Next, you have to select the right place so that the physical features that you have will successfully meet your needs. The physical features include having bodies of water, a good…