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Cairo edition. The Cairo edition (Arabic: المصحف الأميري, "the Amiri Mus'haf "), or the King Fu'ād Quran (مصحف الملك فؤاد) or the Azhar Quran, is an edition of the Quran printed by the Amiri Press in the Bulaq district of Cairo on July 10, 1924. [1][2][3] It is the first printed Quran to be accepted by a Muslim ...
The flooding of the Nile is the result of the yearly monsoon between May and August causing enormous precipitations on the Ethiopian Highlands whose summits reach heights of up to 4,550 m (14,930 ft). Most of this rainwater is taken by the Blue Nile and by the Atbarah River into the Nile, while a less important amount flows through the Sobat ...
Nile News (Arabic: النيل للأخبار) is an Arabic-language television news channel. Launched on October 6, 1998, the channel is based in Cairo , Egypt , and is partly owned by the Egyptian television .
Sep. 20—EDITOR'S NOTE — This editorial originally published Dec. 3, 2023. West Virginia is surprisingly lucky when it comes to local news: All but two of our 55 counties have some kind of ...
The site was originally founded by Amenemhat I on the eastern branch of the Nile in the Delta. [12] Its close proximity to Asia made it a popular town for Asiatic immigrants, most of whom were culturally Egyptianized, using Egyptian pottery, but also retained many aspects of their own culture, as can be seen from the various Asiatic burials ...
Death on the Nile. Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 1 November 1937 [1] and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. [2][3] The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) [4] and the US edition at $2.00. [3]
Title page Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile by James Bruce, 1790. His Travels was issued in 1790, after he retired to his home at Kinnaird, at the urging of his friend Daines Barrington. It was published in five octavo volumes, lavishly illustrated, but was ridiculed by scholars and other travellers as being exaggerated nonsense.
The River Nile in the Post-Colonial Age: Conflict and Cooperation Among the Nile Basin Countries (I.B. Tauris, 2010) 293 pages; studies of the river's finite resources as shared by multiple nations in the post-colonial era; includes research by scholars from Burundi, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.