Piri Reis’s map of Northern Africa features several key areas, including the coasts of Egypt, Libya, and parts of the Maghreb. Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha requested a clean copy of his book ...

Ibrahim Halawa, a 21-year-old Irishman, spent more than four years of his life in prison in Egypt, after he was arrested on a family summer holiday. He was released on 20 October after being ...

Vice Admiral Ashraf Ibrahim Atwa, commander of the Egyptian ... The Navy was founded by the modernising Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt Mohamed Ali Pasha in 1809. “Since then,” says Vice Admiral ...

Egyptian actor Mostafa Fahmy passed away early Wednesday at the age of 82, leaving behind a substantial body of work in ...

Princess Nabila Sabiha Fazile was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris, on August 8 1941, the elder of two children of Prince Muhammad Ali Ibrahim (1900-77), a descendant of Ibrahim Pasha, Vali ...

We come here on weekends and holidays," says Ahmed Ibrahim, a father of four ... Giza Zoo was first opened in 1891 by then ruler of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, who once said he strove to make his ...

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Princess Fazile, who has died in Istanbul aged 83, could have become a romantic young Queen of Iraq in 1958, and later a doyenne of the Middle East, had fate not intervened with the brutal ...