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On 6 October 1981, Field Marshal Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1]
While the "City of the Dead" is a designation frequently used in English, the Arabic name is "al-Qarafa" (Arabic: القرافة, romanized: al-Qarafa).The name is a toponym said to derive from the Banu Qarafa ibn Ghusn ibn Wali clan, a Yemeni clan descended from the Banu Ma'afir tribe, which once had a plot of land in the city of Fustat (the predecessor of Cairo).
Cairo 30 The Israeli Air Force bombarded a residential neighborhood near Qasr al-Qubba in Cairo killed 30 civilians and destroyed many homes Cairo fire: 26 January 1952 Cairo 26 anti-British riots, 552 injured Tora Prison massacre 1 June 1957 Cairo: 21 21 members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were extrajudicially executed in Tora Prison ...
Giulio Regeni (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒuːljo reˈdʒɛːni]; 15 January 1988 – c. January–February 2016) was an Italian PhD student at the University of Cambridge who was kidnapped in Cairo, Egypt, on 25 January 2016, the fifth anniversary of the Tahrir Square protests, and found dead on 3 February near an Egyptian secret service prison.
I deplore the loss of lives, injuries and destruction in Cairo and other places in Egypt. I call on the security forces to exercise utmost restraint and on all Egyptian citizens to avoid further provocations and escalation." [108] Her spokesman, Michael Mann, said that "the reports of deaths and injuries are extremely worrying. We reiterate ...
CAIRO (AP) -- The deaths of 22 soccer fans in Egypt cannot be seen simply as a sports tragedy. Like almost everything since the 2011 uprising that toppled authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak, the ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt withdrew the operating licenses of 16 tourism companies and referred them to the public prosecutor, accusing them of being responsible for the deaths of Egyptian pilgrims ...
The high number of deaths and injuries (561 and 12,392 respectively) was partly due to the amount of panic caused by the earthquake in Cairo itself. [4] Damage was reported to have affected 212 out of a total of 560 historic monuments in the Cairo area. [11] A large block fell from the Great Pyramid of Giza. [4]