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Egyptian cultural dress

Egyptian cultural dress: linen-based pharaonic clothing, the galabeya, Nubian thobe al-das, Sinai tobe, and regional costumes, plus modern shifts to Western dress and the 1970s hijab return.

Sep 24, 2026

Egyptian Debt Crisis

The Egyptian Debt Crisis (أزمة الديون المصرية) was Khedive Ismail's 1876 default to European creditors, ending his rule in 1879 and leading to British occupation in 1882.

Egyptian Earth (Al-Ard, الأرض) is a 1954 novel by the Egyptian writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi, often called the foremost Arabic example of socialist realism and adapted into a film directed by Youssef Chahine.

Egyptian Electricity Holding Company

The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (القابضة لكهرباء مصر, EEHC) is Egypt's state-owned holding company for electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, created in 2000 from the Egyptian Electricity Authority.

Egyptian faience

Egyptian faience, also called glazed composition, is a non-clay ceramic of crushed quartz with a soda-rich glaze, first made in the Badarian Culture (c. 5500–4000 BCE) and glazed by efflorescence, cementation, or application.

Egyptian folk literature

Egyptian folk literature (الأدب الشعبي المصري) is the oral verbal art of the Egyptian people, spanning folk tales, proverbs, songs, and popular epics like the Sirat Bani Hilal.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, responsible for most oil and gas operations and for managing concession agreements with international investors.

Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC)

The Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) is Egypt's state-owned national oil company, formed in 1962, which supervises concessions with international oil companies and owns Egypt's seven refineries.

Egyptian goose

Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca, Nilgans), an African shelduck native to the Nile valley and sub-Saharan Africa, introduced to Europe since the 17th century; invasive in the EU since 2017, Least Concern globally.

Sep 19, 2026

Egyptian governor residencies

Egyptian governor residencies, also called Egyptian residencies in Canaan, were administrative centers built by New Kingdom Egypt in Canaan during the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.

Egyptian hieroglyphs

Egyptian hieroglyphs: the formal pictorial script of ancient Egypt, mixing phonograms, logograms, and determinatives; attested from about 3250 BC, deciphered by Champollion in 1822 via the Rosetta Stone and Coptic, last used in 394 CE.

Egyptian language

Egyptian language, ancient language of Egypt, Afro-Asiatic branch; five stages Old, Middle, Late Egyptian, Demotic, Coptic; written in hieroglyphs, hieratic, demotic, Coptic scripts from c. 3200 BCE; Coptic survives liturgically.

Egyptian LNG Terminal

Egyptian LNG is a liquefied natural gas export terminal at Idku on Egypt's Mediterranean coast, with two trains totaling 7.2 million tonnes per year, operating since 2005.

Egyptian Lover

Egyptian Lover (Greg Broussard) is a Los Angeles DJ, rapper, and producer, a pioneer of 1980s West Coast electro-hop. Known for "Egypt, Egypt" (1984), Uncle Jamm's Army, and mastery of the Roland TR-808 drum machine.

Sep 19, 2026

Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll

The Egyptian Mathematical Leather Roll is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian mathematical text on leather, bought in Egypt by Henry Rhind in 1858 and held in the British Museum, preserving 26 unit-fraction equalities written in duplicate.

Egyptian Mau

Egyptian Mau: the only naturally spotted domestic cat breed, named from the Egyptian word for cat. Silver, bronze, and smoke coats, gooseberry green eyes, up to 30 mph; imported to the US by Princess Troubetskoy in 1956, recognized by CFA in 1970 and TICA in 1979.

Egyptian Media Production City (مدينة الإنتاج الإعلامي)

Egyptian Media Production City (مدينة الإنتاج الإعلامي, EMPC), a media and production complex in 6th of October City, Giza, opened 1997, listed as MPRC on EGX, with over 100 studios, backlots, Nilesat broadcasting, and Egypt Film Commission services.

Egyptian modern art

Egyptian modern art is a modernist visual art movement centered in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, combining French academic training with Egyptian, Arab, and Islamic traditions.

Egyptian Museum (المتحف المصري)

Egyptian Museum (المتحف المصري) in Tahrir Square, Cairo: opened 15 November 1902, designed by Marcel Dourgnon; oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East, formerly home of the Tutankhamun and Tanis collections.

Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology: the sacred narratives of ancient Egypt over about 3,000 years, covering creation myths (Ennead, Atum/Ra), ma'at, divine kingship, the Osiris myth, and judgment of the dead.

Egyptian National Identity Card

The Egyptian National Identity Card (بطاقة الرقم القومي) is the compulsory identity document for Egyptian citizens aged 16 and older, required for hospital care, employment, banking, and property.

Egyptian National Railways

Egyptian National Railways is the state railway operator of Egypt, running a network that was the first railway in Africa and the Middle East, opened in 1856.

Egyptian National Theater (المسرح القومي المصري)

The Egyptian National Theater, also known as Masrah Al Qawmi, is Egypt's state theater troupe, founded in Cairo in 1935 and performing at the National Theatre in Downtown Cairo.

Egyptian Natural Gas Holding

Egyptian Natural Gas Holding, known as EGAS, is Egypt's state holding company for natural gas, created in 2001 to manage agreements, exploration, production, and distribution.

Egyptian Navy (القوات البحرية المصرية)

Egyptian Navy (القوات البحرية المصرية), the naval branch of Egypt's armed forces, operating on the Mediterranean and Red Sea around the Suez Canal with about 149 vessels, two Mistral-class LHDs, 13 frigates, and 8 submarines.

Egyptian neoclassical school

The Egyptian neoclassical school, called مدرسة الإحياء والبعث in Arabic, was a poetic movement from the late 19th century to the 1940s that imitated the ancient poets.