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| Capital city | Cairo |
| Location | Middle East, Africa |
| Leader | President of Egypt |
| Type | nation state |
| Interest of | CENTCOM |
| Member of | Arab League, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, Organisation of African Unity, Safari Club |
| Subpage | •Egypt/Deputy Prime Minister •Egypt/Minister of Defence •Egypt/Minister of Foreign Affairs •Egypt/Minister of the Interior •Egypt/President •Egypt/Prime Minister •Egypt/Vice-President |
| Strategically important due particularly to the Suez canal. | |
Egypt occupies a strategic position in Africa, connecting it to the Middle East.
Contents
History
CIA/Deep State operative Frank Terpil admitted to working for the Egyptian government.[1]
Homelessness
According to UNICEF, there are 1 million children living on the streets in Egypt.[2] Other researchers estimate the number to be some 3 million.[3]
Ambassadors to Egypt
| Nation state | Start | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Ambassador to Egypt | ||
| Norway/Ambassador to Egypt | ||
| UK/Ambassador to Egypt | ||
| US/Ambassador to Egypt | 14 August 1848 |
Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011 Egyptian Revolution | |
| Lavon Affair | A false flag bombing campaign carried out in Egypt against US, UK and Egyptian targets. Israel was caught and exposed - and officially admitted responsibility some 51 years later. |
| Metrojet Flight 9268 | Metrojet Flight 9268 disappeared from radar at 31,000 feet, exploded and crashed killing everyone on board. |
| Six Day War | |
| Suez Crisis |
Groups Headquartered Here
| A Group Headquartered Here | Description |
|---|---|
| Arab League | |
| Cairo University | Most important university in Egypt. |
| Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority | |
| Muslim Brotherhood | |
| Victoria College (Alexandria) | Founded in 1902 to educate Arab upper class loyal to Britain; nationalized in 1956. |
Citizens of Egypt on Wikispooks
| Title | Born | Died | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mohamed Al-Fayed | 27 January 1929 | ||
| Mohamed Atta | 1 September 1968 | 11 September 2001 | One of the 19 hijackers blamed for 9-11. |
| Henri Curiel | 13 September 1914 | 4 May 1978 | International left wing activist with many enemies, gunned down. |
| Dodi Fayed | 15 April 1955 | 31 August 1997 | |
| Mohamed El Ghanem | |||
| Saad Eddin Ibrahim | 31 December 1938 | ||
| Abu Hamza al Masri | 15 April 1958 | 30 November 2005 | |
| Nabil Na'eem | 1956 | ||
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | 15 January 1918 | 28 September 1970 | |
| Anwar Sadat | 25 December 1918 | 6 October 1981 | As a peace-making Egyptian leader, an obvious enemy of the MICC. |
| Emad Salem | FBI informant and key witness in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing | ||
| Ayman al-Zawahri | 19 June 1951 |
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bandung Conference | 1955 | 1955 | Indonesia | Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:A Cautionary Tale | article | 3 February 2011 | William Blum | |
| Document:Britain and the Muslim Brotherhood | book extract | 18 December 2010 | Mark Curtis | |
| Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
| Document:Ukraine and How the West Treats Comparable Events in Satellite and Non-Satellite Countries Differently | article | 27 January 2014 | Stephen Gowans | A pithy, succinct illustration of how, in matters of foreign affairs, the language and terminology of western media coverage changes according to the status of the government/country being reported on, as either approved or unapproved of by western geo-political interests. More subtle than "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter", but analogous. |
References
- ↑ http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/article1963199.html
- ↑ "A new approach to Egypt's street children". UNICEF.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
- ↑ "Study: 3 million children living on Egypt's streets - Egypt Independent".Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
