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Egyptian Pop

Egyptian Pop, or Masri pop, is the Cairo-centered mainstream of Arab popular music, sung in Egyptian colloquial Arabic, with stars such as Amr Diab, Sherine, and Mohamed Hamaki.

Egyptian pound (الجنيه المصري)

The Egyptian pound (الجنيه المصري), code EGP, is the currency of Egypt, issued by the Central Bank of Egypt since 1960 and floated in March 2024.

Egyptian Premier League (الدوري المصري الممتاز)

Egyptian Premier League (الدوري المصري الممتاز), Egypt's top football division since 1948, run by the Egyptian Professional Clubs League; dominated by Al Ahly and Zamalek, ranked among Africa's strongest leagues.

Egyptian prose poetry

Egyptian prose poetry, called qasidat al-nathr in Arabic, is the non-metrical, unrhymed poetic tradition that developed in Egypt, with a defining seventies generation breaking from classical meter.

Egyptian pyramids

Egyptian pyramids: Old Kingdom royal tombs (2686–2181 BC), from Djoser's Step Pyramid by Imhotep to Khufu's Great Pyramid (146.5 m); distinct from later, smaller Nubian pyramids.

Egyptian Ratscrew

Egyptian Ratscrew (ERS), also called Egyptian War or Ratslap, is an American slap card game combining Beggar My Neighbour face-card challenges with slapping doubles, sandwiches, and other patterns to collect all 52 cards.

Egyptian realism

Egyptian realism is the literary movement in modern Egyptian Arabic fiction that depicts social reality, dominant from the 1940s through the 1960s in the work of Naguib Mahfouz and others.

Egyptian revolt against Darius I

The Egyptian revolt against Darius I, also called the Great Revolt of the Egyptians against Darius I, was an uprising in Persian-ruled Egypt beginning in 486 BC and crushed by Xerxes around 485/484 BC.

Sep 23, 2026

Egyptian revolution of 1952

The Egyptian revolution of 1952 (ثورة 23 يوليو) was a bloodless coup by the Free Officers that forced King Farouk to abdicate and ended Egypt's monarchy.

Egyptian romantic school

The Egyptian romantic school (المدرسة الرومانسية المصرية), also called the Apollo School, was a poetic movement in 1930s and 1940s Egypt whose doctrine was Romanticism.

Egyptian short story

The Egyptian short story (القصة القصيرة, al-qissa al-qasira) is a prose fiction genre that emerged in Egypt in the early twentieth century, generally traced to Muhammad Taymur's 1917 story "Fī al-Qiṭār".

Egyptian synodal decrees

Egyptian synodal decrees, also called priestly decrees, are collective enactments of priests in Ptolemaic Egypt, issued between 238 and 161 BC and inscribed on stelae, most famously the Rosetta Stone.

Egyptian temple

Egyptian temple (hut-netcher, "god's house"): sacred building housing cults of gods, the king, or the blessed dead, centered on a cult image served daily by priests, with public contact mainly through festivals; most surviving temples are Ptolemaic.

Egyptian theatre

Egyptian theatre is the tradition of staged drama in Egypt, founded in Arabic by Ya'qub Sannu in 1870 and among the leading traditions in the Arab world.

Sep 23, 2026

Egyptian University

The Egyptian University (الجامعة المصرية) was a private university founded in Cairo in 1908 by nationalist figures including Muhammad Abduh and Saad Zaghlul, absorbed by the state in 1925.

Egyptian vulture

Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), a small Endangered Old World vulture of Europe, Africa, and Asia; the only long-distance migratory European vulture, a tool-using egg-breaker, declining 50-79% over three generations from poisoning and electrocution.

Egyptian withdrawal from Nubia

The Egyptian withdrawal from Nubia was the end of pharaonic rule and viceregal administration of Kush around 1070 BCE, when Viceroy Panehesy severed Nubia from Egyptian control.

Sep 24, 2026

Egyptian–Ethiopian War

The Egyptian–Ethiopian War of 1874–1876 pitted Khedivate Egypt under Khedive Ismail Pasha against the Ethiopian Empire under Yohannes IV; Ethiopian victories at Gundet in 1875 and Gura in 1876 ended Egypt's expansionist ambitions.

Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty

Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, also called Treaty of Kadesh or Eternal Treaty: parity agreement of Ramesses II and Hattusili III, year 21 of Ramesses (c. 1259 BCE), with nonaggression, alliance, and extradition clauses, surviving at Karnak, the Ramesseum, and Hattusa.

Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty

The Egyptian–Mitanni peace treaty was the settlement of around 1400 BC by which Thutmose IV of Egypt and Artatama I of Mitanni ended hostilities over Syria.

Egyptian–Mitanni treaty of Thutmose IV

A peace treaty and marriage alliance between Thutmose IV of Egypt and Artatama I of Mitanni, known from the Amarna letters and opening an era of marriage diplomacy.

Egyptians

Egyptians (المصريون), the people of Egypt, defined by Nile Valley residence, pharaonic heritage, Coptic Christian and Arab-Islamic layers, and constitutional national identity; distinct from Arabians and Nubians by ancestry, language history, and shared civilizational memory.

Egyptology

Egyptology is the academic study of ancient Egypt's archaeology, language, history, religion, and art, from about 7000 BC to the early middle ages. Founded on Champollion's 1822 hieroglyph decipherment via the Rosetta Stone, it now spans Nubia and debates over decolonization.

Oct 15, 2026

EHang

EHang Holdings Limited is a Chinese manufacturer of pilotless electric aircraft in Guangzhou, founded in 2014; its EH216-S holds the world's first passenger eVTOL type certificate.

EHarmony

eHarmony (eharmony) is an American online dating service founded in 2000 by psychologist Neil Clark Warren in Pasadena, California. Known for its Compatibility Quiz and patented 29 Dimensions matching model, it targets serious, marriage-minded daters and is owned by ParshipMeet Group.