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Egypt,, , }} officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan and the Sahara to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, largest city, and leading cultural centre, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 107 million inhabitants, Egypt is the most populous country in the Arab world, third-most populous country in Africa, and 15th-most populated in the world.Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, urbanisation, organised religion and central government. Egypt was an early and important centre of Christianity, later adopting Islam from the seventh century onwards. Alexandria, Egypt's former capital and currently second largest city, was a hub of global knowledge through its Library. Cairo became the capital of the Fatimid Caliphate in the tenth century and of the subsequent Mamluk Sultanate in the 13th century. Egypt then became part of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, until its local ruler Muhammad Ali established modern Egypt as an autonomous Khedivate in 1867. The country was then occupied by the British Empire along with Sudan and gained independence in 1922 as a monarchy.
Following the 1952 revolution, Egypt declared itself a republic. Between 1958 and 1961, Egypt merged with Syria to form the United Arab Republic. Egypt fought several armed conflicts with Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, and occupied the Gaza Strip intermittently until 1967. In 1978, Egypt signed the Camp David Accords, which recognised Israel in exchange for the latter's withdrawal from the occupied Sinai. After the Arab Spring, which led to the 2011 Egyptian revolution and overthrow of Hosni Mubarak, the country faced a protracted period of political unrest; its first democratic election in 2012 resulted in the short-lived, Muslim Brotherhood-aligned government of Mohamed Morsi, which was overthrown by the military after mass protests in 2013. The current government is a semi-presidential republic led by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was elected in 2014 but is widely regarded as authoritarian.
Egypt is a developing country with the second-largest economy in Africa. It is considered to be a regional power in the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim world, and a middle power worldwide. Islam is the official religion and Arabic its official language. Egypt is a founding member of the United Nations, the Non-Aligned Movement, the Arab League, the African Union, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, World Youth Forum, and a member of BRICS. Provided by Wikipedia
Exalted Spirits: The Veneration of the Dead in Egypt through the Ages
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The exhibition was opened on the 9th of November, 2021 at The Egyptian Museum in Cairo and was followed by a three-day conference from the 10th to the 12th of November, 2021. This three-day conference, in partnership with The American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA), covered the veneration of deceased figures in Egypt from the Pharaonic period up to current times, using the diverse evidence available in terms of texts, images, and lived traditions. The conference featured academic papers as well as panel discussions focusing on current practises related to the veneration of the dead and their origins, which may be traced back to ancient Egypt, and was aimed at both academic and non-academic participants. The former presented academic papers, while the latter (which included creatives from different fields) participated in panel discussions. Academic papers published in a peer-reviewed journal
Transcending Eternity : The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference
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to celebrate the centenary anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun?s
tomb, the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) partnered with
the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) to organize an in-per-
son conference. ?Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun
Conference? toke place between 4-6 November 2022 at the world?s
largest open-air museum, Luxor. Experts presented papers in di-
verse areas such as Tutankhamun?s life and death as well as, the history
behind the tomb?s excavation. The objective behind this conference was
to present the latest research on the king along with his objects and
tomb
Ḥujjat waqf al-Ashraf Barsbāy /
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Added title pages : L'acte de waqf de Barsbay (Huğğat waqf Barsbay) ; Édition critique avec Introduction, annotation et lexique par Ahmed Darrāǧ
Text of a document (MS. no. 3390, history) in Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīyah, Cairo, summarizing a succession of legal acts (waqfs) by which Sultan Barsbāy disposed of various properties. :
7, 81, 96, xiv pages ; 25 cm. :
Bibliography : pages [xi]-xiv.
The buildings of Qāytbāy as described in his endowment deed /
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"The official copy of the original scroll of Qāytbāy's endowment of the madrasa and mausoleum outside Cairo."--Pref.
Preface in English ; text in Arabic paged with Arabic numeral characters.
Printed in Cairo. :
1 volume ; 28 cm.
The literature of Egypt and the Soudan : from the earliest times to the year 1885 [i.e. 1887] inclusive. A bibliography, comprising printed books, periodical writings and papers of...
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"Appendix of additional works to May, 1887": v. 2, p. 371-459.
An author list, containing about 20,000 titles, with some subject and form headings. Contents of sets are given in full (Bulletin de l'Institut égyptien; v. 1, p. 320-325; v. 2, p. 423-424. Zeitschrift für aegyptische Sprache und Alterthumskunde, v. 2, p. 351-358; Index to the Zeitschrift, 1863-85, p. 358-366) :
2 volumes ; 28 cm.