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Teos' successor Nectanebo II kept this practice, though coining his personal gold staters. Gold stater as a daric (about 8.42 grams), obverse with a prancing horse on the right, [1] reverse with the hieroglyphs nfr-nb. Small gold stater (about 2.56 grams, diameter 14-15 mm), with a probable picture of a leaping gazelle.
The number of Arabic newspapers in Egypt was about 200 in 1938. [1] There were also 65 newspapers published in languages other than Arabic, [ 1 ] such as Turkish , French and English . [ 2 ] By 1951 Arabic language newspapers numbered to about 400, while 150 were published in other languages. [ 1 ]
The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of Al Masry Al Youm. [5] In 2004, its establishment was finalized, [6] and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition.
The Ptolemaic dynasty introduced standard coinage to Egypt, where pre-existing native dynasties made only very limited use of coins. Egyptian gold stater was the first coin ever minted in ancient Egypt around 360 BC during the reign of pharaoh Teos of the 30th Dynasty. These coins were used to pay salaries of Greek mercenaries in his service.
Saad Zaghloul Pasha (Arabic: سعد زغلول / ALA-LC: Saʻd Zaghlūl; also Sa'd Zaghloul Pasha ibn Ibrahim) (July 1857 [1] – 23 August 1927) was an Egyptian revolutionary and statesman. He was the leader of Egypt's nationalist Wafd Party. He served as the first Honorary President of Al Ahly SC.
Gold stater of Nectanebo II; Perfect Gold, or Fine Gold. One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the gold stater, issued during the 30th Dynasty. The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs. The obverse has the two hieroglyphs for nfr and nb: "Perfect gold", or a common-era term: 'Fine'-gold.
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Al-Ahram is one of the largest circulating newspapers in the world. [24] Long-term editor of the daily Mohammad Hassanein Haykal was the confidant of Nasser and also, the semi-official voice of the Egyptian government when he was in office. [7] [25] The Egyptian government owns a controlling share of the stocks of the paper and appoints the ...