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The New Administrative Capital ( NAC) [ 1][ 2] ( Arabic: العاصمة الإدارية الجديدة, romanized : al-ʿĀṣima al-ʾIdārīya al-Jadīda ), is a new urban community in Cairo Governorate, Egypt and a satellite of Cairo City. It is planned to be Egypt's new capital and has been under construction since 2015. [ 3]
11 September – Violent demonstration erupted in Egypt in reaction to Innocence of Muslims, an anti-Islamic YouTube video written by Egyptian-American writer Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. 18 September – A Coptic Christian teacher was sentenced for six years in jail for posting drawings of Muhammad and insulting president Mohamed Morsi on Facebook.
Original owner. Egyptian Government. Construction began. 1997. The New Valley Project or Toshka Project consists of building a system of canals to carry water from Lake Nasser to irrigate part of the sandy wastes of the Western Desert of Egypt, which is part of the Sahara Desert .
Egypt is about to act on its longstanding threat to temporarily ban YouTube. The country's highest administrative court has ruled that officials must block the streaming video site for a month ...
Architect (s) French architect Rousseau. Abdeen District is the home of Abdeen Palace ( Arabic: قصر عابدين ), a 19th-century Cairo palace built by Khedive Ismail and served as the Egyptian royal household's primary official residence from 1874 until the July Revolution in 1952. [ 1] Since then it is one of the presidential palaces. [ 1]
Egypt's current government, a semi-presidential republic led by president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi since he was elected in 2014, has been described by a number of watchdogs as authoritarian and responsible for perpetuating the country's poor human rights record. Islam is the official religion of Egypt, and Arabic is its official language. [1]
Wael Abbas Bilal ( Egyptian Arabic: وائل عباس, IPA: [ˈwæːʔel ʕæbˈbæːs]) (born 14 November 1974 in Egypt) is an internationally renowned Egyptian journalist, blogger, and human rights activist, [1] who blogs at Misr Digital (Egyptian Awareness). [2] He reported an incident of mob harassment of women, and broadcast several videos ...
History of Egypt. According to most scholars the history of modern Egypt dates from the start of the rule of Muhammad Ali in 1805 and his launching of Egypt's modernization project that involved building a new army and suggesting a new map for the country, though the definition of Egypt's modern history has varied in accordance with different ...