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The building was designed in 1935 by modernist architect Acheson Best Overend and completed in December 1936 by Blease Macpherson & Co. [6] [7] Cairo is a U-shaped, two story building comprising 28 apartments, mostly studio flats. [8] Overend was influenced by modernist architect Wells Coates and the "minimum flat concept". [6]
Order of Merit (وسام الاستحقاق; five classes) [7] Order of the Virtues (وسام الكمال; four classes) [8] Medal of Work (وسام العمل; four classes) [9] Medal of Sciences and Arts (وسام العلوم والفنون; two classes) [10] Medal of Sports (وسام الرياضة; two classes) [11]
Cairo 360 is an online lifestyle publication and guide based in Cairo, Egypt. Founded in 2010 by Waseem El Tanahi, Managing Director of parent company Media Republic, the site posts daily reviews, feature articles, weekly events, cinema listings, and a venue directory. [ 1 ]
The Qalawun complex (Arabic: مجمع قلاون) is a massive pious complex in Cairo, Egypt, built by Sultan al-Mansur Qalawun from 1284 to 1285. It is located at Bayn al-Qasrayn on al-Mu'izz street and like many other pious complexes includes a hospital (), a madrasa and mausoleum.
It was first awarded in 1996 and is presented annually on December 11, the birthday of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz, by the President of the American University in Cairo. [2] 2011 was a unique year for the award because of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. The campuses of the American University in Cairo were operationally impacted and instead of ...
The actual namesake building, constructed in the Art Deco style, still stands in downtown Cairo at the address given in the novel: 34, Talaat Harb Street (referred to by its old name, Suleiman Pasha Street, by both native Cairenes and the novel's characters), although its true appearance differs from its description in the book.
Egyptian Media Production City Co SAE (EMPC) is an information and media complex located near Cairo in Egypt.It is listed on the Egyptian Exchange, though most of its shares are owned by the Government of Egypt through the National Media Authority as well as other state-owned enterprises (SOEs). [1]
Mokattam (upper area), above the City of the Dead—Cairo necropolis, in a 1904 aerial view by Eduard Spelterini from a hot air balloon. The area on election day, 2011. The Mokattam (Egyptian Arabic: المقطم [elmoˈʔɑtˤ.tˤɑm], also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the ...