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controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and remainder of Eastern Hemisphere; controls Suez Canal, a sea link between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea; size, and juxtaposition to Israel, establish its major role in Middle Eastern geopolitics; dependence on upstream neighbors; dominance of Nile basin issues; prone to influxes of refugees

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Egypt
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Capital:Cairo
Currency:Egyptian pound (EGP)
Languages:Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes
Population:76,117,421
Area:1,001,450
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Sharm el Sheikh

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Cairo
The bustling metropolis in the land of the pharaohs on the banks of the Nile.
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Dive
Alexandria, Dahab, El Gouna, Sharm el Sheikh, Taba
For further information see the British Sub Aqua Club site
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Heritage
Major heritage sites include:
  • Abu Mena
  • Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis
  • Islamic Cairo
  • Memphis and its Necropolis the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur
  • Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae
  • Saint Catherine Area
  • Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)
See the UNESCO website for more details
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I think so many people don’t understand that car prices will go higher very soon, specially the new models of 2010, just think about it by logic, the Egyptian government published in the public newspapers that the decrease process of cars importing fees will not start until 2010, and all what we hear in the market in nothing but roomers.

Detailed historyof the appearance of the Greco-Egyptian god Serapis on coins of the Greco-Roman period.



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"The Palestinian Authority of president Mahmud Abbas insists on the deployment of an international force in Gaza 'to protect the Palestinian people,' his ambassador to Egypt said Sunday. 'We insist as Palestinians, whatever the response of the (Hamas) opposition, on the fact that there be an international force to protect the Palestinian people,' Nabil Amr said in response to a journalist's question on the possibility of an international force deploying in Gaza."

"Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip launched rockets into southern Israel on Sunday in defiance of the unilateral ceasefire that Israel declared hours earlier and which Hamas pledged to ignore. Here is a timeline of events since a six-month ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip ended last month."


""The essence of this is you have two completely separate cease-fires, with no underpinnings in them of agreement or understanding, and no resolution of the original causes of the conflict," said Alistair Crooke, a former British intelligence officer and former European Union adviser on Palestinian issues. "On one level, it's back to square one, and all of the elements of the situation are back to where they were before the war.""



Humanistisk jødedom Eg leitar og undrast Er det rom for humanismen innan jødedommen? Her er litt og fleire linka om det spørsmålet. Eg undrast om, ikkje det skall kunne gå an å bygge verden, med ein forstand som er verdsleg. Det er ein person eg er i gang med å kike på. Er det ein eller annan med saklig meining, om hann og organisasjonen hann starta?

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Hatshepsut (or Hatchepsut, IPA: /hætˈʃɛpsʊt/) (my guide called it the Chicken Soup Temple), meaning, Foremost of Noble Ladies, was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She is generally regarded by Egyptologists as one of the most successful pharaohs, reigning longer than any other woman of an indigenous Egyptian dynasty.

Although contemporary records of her reign are documented in diverse ancient sources, Hatshepsut was described by early modern scholars as only having served as a co-regent from about 1479 to 1458 B.C., during years seven to twenty-one of the reign previously identified as that of Thutmose III. Today it is generally recognized that Hatshepsut assumed the position of pharaoh and the length of her reign usually is given as twenty-two years, since she was assigned a reign of twenty-one years and nine months by the third-century B.C. historian, Manetho, who had access to many records that now are lost. Her death is known to have occurred in 1458 B.C., which implies that she became pharaoh circa 1479 B.C.

Although it was uncommon for Egypt to be ruled by a woman, the situation was not unprecedented. As a regent Hatshepsut was preceded by Merneith of the first dynasty, who was buried with the full honors of a pharaoh and may have ruled in her own right. Nimaethap of the third dynasty may have been the dowager of Khasekhemwy, but certainly acted as regent for her son, Djoser, and may have reigned as pharaoh in her own right. Queen Sobekneferu of the Twelfth Dynasty is known to have assumed formal power as ruler of "Upper and Lower Egypt" three centuries earlier than Hatshepsut. Ahhotep I, lauded as a warrior queen, may have been a regent between the reigns of two of her sons, Kamose and Ahmose I, at the end of the seventeenth dynasty and the beginning of Hatshepsut's own eighteenth dynasty. Amenhotep I, also preceding Hatshepsut in the eighteenth dynasty, probably came to power while a young child and his mother, Ahmose-Nefertari, is thought to have been a regent for him. Other women whose possible reigns as pharaohs are under study include Nefertiti, Neferneferuaten, and Twosret. Among the later, non-indigenous Egyptian dynasties, the most notable example of another woman who became pharaoh was Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. - Wikipedia


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