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Parent topics
- Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. [e]
- Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. [e]
- Maghreb [r]: The Muslim-majority, Arabic and Berber-speaking countries of North Africa, bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea and often by the Sahara Desert on the south. [e]
Subtopics
- Egyptian Neopaganism [r]: A modern religious revival attempting to reconstruct the beliefs and practices of ancient Egypt. [e]
Ancient history
- Alexander the Great [r]: King of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BCE. [e]
- Great Pyramid of Giza [r]: Largest and oldest of the pyramids in the Giza Necropolis of Greater Cairo, Egypt; was the tallest building for nearly 4,000 years, and is the largest pyramid ever constructed. [e]
- Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. [e]
- Imhotep [r]: The Egyptian architect, alive during the years 2650-2600 B.C, responsible for the first pyramid. [e]
Modern leadership and opposition
- Arab Spring [r]: Protest movements in the Arab world that seek the removal of oppressive governments. [e]
- Gamal Nasser [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anwar Sadat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hosni Mubarak [r]: President of Egypt 1981-2011 [e]
- Arab League [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Muslim Brotherhood [r]: An Islamic political group, formed in Egypt and increasingly part of the political system there, which has worldwide branches; it may be moving from a Salafist ideology to a more mulilateral one [e]
Military and security
- Arab-Israeli Conflict [r]: The series of wars and military tension between the State of Israel and Arab states; often includes the Israel-Palestine Conflict, a remnant of the wars between countries [e]
- 1967 Arab-Israeli War [r]: Often called the "Six Days War", a decisive Israeli victory, starting with a preemptive attack, against Arab states preparing for battle; the West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights were captured [e]
- 2008-2009 Gaza conflict [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Al-Jihad [r]: An Egyptian insurgent group, whose name translated as Holy Struggle [e]
- Ibn Sheikh al-Libi [r]: A Libyan member of al-Qaeda whose interrogation results, later recanted, were a large part of the U.S. justfication for starting the Iraq War because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; he was in various CIA programs of extraordinary rendition and interrogation [e]
- Ahmed Agiza [r]: An Egyptian citizen, rendered to Egypt by Swedish and U.S. personnel, where he was imprisoned for a 1999 in absentia conviction of belonging to an illegal organization, Egyptian Islamic Jihad; the removal from Sweden did not involve extradition and may have violated the refoulement provision of the Convention against Torture. [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, Egypt [r]: General policies of modern Egypt for extrajudicial detention either by the Egyptian authorities directly, or where Egypt receives prisoners from third countries [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., Bill Clinton Administration [r]: Extraordinary rendition of suspects of counterterrorism programs in the Clinton Administration, with brief U.S. interrogation but primary coercive interrogation in third countries [e]
- Extraordinary rendition, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sami Mohy El Din Muhammed Al Hajj [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arabic language [r]: Add brief definition or description
- British Empire [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CIA activities in the Middle East and South Asia [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Israel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Libya [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sudan [r]: Add brief definition or description