Egyptian Governance and Economy

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  1. Complete the sentence about Egyptian Arabic with the correct year: The first modern Egyptian novel in which the dialogue was written in the vernacular was Muhammad Husayn Haykal's Zaynab in ______.
  2. Complete the sentence about Koshari with the correct year: In ______, in his book "Journey to Egypt and the Hijaz", explorer Richard Burton documented koshary as the breakfast meal of the people of Su…
  3. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: The word baklava is first attested in English in ______, a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish: باقلاوه /bɑːklɑvɑː/.
  4. Complete the sentence about Baklava with the correct year: Written in ______ in today's Iraq, the cookbook was based on an earlier collection of 9th century Persian-inspired recipes.
  5. Complete the sentence about Mawlid with the correct year: The Ottomans declared it an official holiday in ______, known as Mevlid Kandil.
  6. Complete the sentence about Sham El Nessim with the correct year: In the year ______, for example, Coptic Easter occurred on May 5th, which does not align with the conventional beginning of the Khamas…
  7. Complete the sentence about Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria with the correct year: In ______, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church was granted autocephaly.
  8. Complete the sentence about Pope Tawadros II with the correct year: Wagih Sobhi Baqi Suleiman was born on 4 November ______ in Damanhur, Kingdom of Egypt.
  9. Complete the sentence about Pope Tawadros II with the correct year: On Palm Sunday in ______, Pope Tawadros II celebrated the Divine Liturgy mass at the Cathedral of St.
  10. Complete the sentence about Islam in Egypt with the correct year: In the same Arab Barometer ______ Wave V survey, it was reported that 90.4% said they were Muslim, 9.6% said they were Christian, and…
  11. Complete the sentence about Islam in Egypt with the correct year: After the Egyptian Revolution of ______, the new government assumed responsibility for appointing officials to mosques and Islamic sch…
  12. Complete the sentence about Islam in Egypt with the correct year: Likewise, it mandated the reform of Al-Azhar University, beginning in ______.
  13. Complete the sentence about Cairo University with the correct year: After being housed in various parts of Cairo, its faculties, beginning with the Faculty of Arts, were established on its current mai…
  14. Complete the sentence about Cairo University with the correct year: In ______, four years following his death, the university was renamed King Fuad I University in his honor.
  15. Complete the sentence about American University in Cairo with the correct year: The preparatory school opened to 142 students on October 5, ______, in Khairy Pasha Palace, which was built in the 1860s…
  16. Complete the sentence about American University in Cairo with the correct year: The government returned control to American administrators on June 12, ______, coinciding with a visit to Cairo by U.S.…
  17. Complete the sentence about American University in Cairo with the correct year: The American University in Cairo Press was established in ______.
  18. Complete the sentence about Alexandria University with the correct year: The "Zarfoudaki Palace" was leased as the branch's initial location, and studies began on 15 October ______, with the Faculty o…
  19. Complete the sentence about Mansoura University with the correct year: Mansoura University was founded in ______ in Mansoura city, Egypt.
  20. Complete the sentence about Mansoura University with the correct year: The faculty of medicine was founded in ______ as a branch of Cairo University.
  21. Complete the sentence about Mansoura University with the correct year: In ______, a presidential decree announced the establishment of the university under the name "East Delta University".
  22. Complete the sentence about Naguib Mahfouz with the correct year: Mahfouz was born in a lower middle-class Muslim Egyptian family in Old Cairo in ______.
  23. Complete the sentence about Naguib Mahfouz with the correct year: The Egyptian Revolution of ______ had a strong effect on Mahfouz, although he was at the time only seven years old.
  24. Complete the sentence about Taha Hussein with the correct year: When the secular Cairo University was founded in ______, he was keen to be admitted, and despite being poor and blind, he won a place.
  25. Complete the sentence about Taha Hussein with the correct year: In ______, he received a PhD for his thesis on the sceptic poet and philosopher Abu al-ʿAlaʾ al-Maʿarri.
  26. Complete the sentence about Taha Hussein with the correct year: In ______, Hussein returned to Egypt with Suzanne, and he was appointed professor of history at Cairo University.
  27. Complete the sentence about Tawfiq al-Hakim with the correct year: In the same period al-Hakim was one of the contributors of Al Katib Al Misri, a literary magazine started in Cairo in October ______.
  28. Complete the sentence about Tawfiq al-Hakim with the correct year: When the National Theatre Troupe was formed in Egypt in ______, the first production that it mounted was The People of the Cave.
  29. Complete the sentence about Nawal El Saadawi with the correct year: In ______, the International Peace Bureau awarded her the Seán MacBride Peace Prize.
  30. Complete the sentence about Nawal El Saadawi with the correct year: The second-eldest of nine children, Saadawi was born on 27 October ______ in the small village of Kafr Tahla, Egypt.
  31. Complete the sentence about Alaa Al Aswany with the correct year: Al Aswany attended Le Lycée Français in Cairo and received a bachelor's degree in dental and oral medicine at Cairo University in ____…
  32. Complete the sentence about Alaa Al Aswany with the correct year: In ______, The Yacoubian Building was adapted into "the biggest budget movie ever produced in Egypt".
  33. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Shawqi with the correct year: Forced into exile for his outspoken opposition to the British, he was exiled to Andalusia, Spain in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Shawqi with the correct year: Shawqi remained there until ______, when he returned to Egypt.
  35. Complete the sentence about Hafez Ibrahim with the correct year: In ______, Hafez attended the Military Academy and graduated three years later as a lieutenant.
  36. Complete the sentence about Youssef Idris with the correct year: Idris won the ______ Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature for his novel City of Love and Ashes.
  37. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cinema with the correct year: Since ______, Cairo has held the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema Festival; it is the oldest film festival in the Middle East.
  38. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cinema with the correct year: Egypt's first cinema opened its doors in Alexandria in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence with the correct year: In ______, laws organizing film industry were enacted in Egypt.
  40. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cinema with the correct year: In ______, the director Mohammed Karim established a production company in Alexandria.
  41. Complete the sentence about Egyptian cinema with the correct year: The year ______ saw the publication of the first periodical review on film "Animated Images" by Mohamed Tawfik who was the owner and…
  42. Complete the sentence about Youssef Chahine with the correct year: After graduating from Victoria college in ______, he was determined to go abroad to fulfill his passions.
  43. Complete the sentence about Youssef Chahine with the correct year: The producer Humbert Balsan went to Cannes in ______ with Alexandria...
  44. Complete the sentence about Faten Hamama with the correct year: In ______, she was selected as Star of the Century by the Egyptian Writers and Critics organization.
  45. Complete the sentence about Faten Hamama with the correct year: After her success, Hamama moved with her parents to Cairo and started her study at the High Institute of Acting in ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Adel Imam with the correct year: In January ______, the United Nations appointed him a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR.
  47. Complete the sentence about Soad Hosny with the correct year: In ______, she starred in 10 films including Mabka el-Oshak, His Excellency, The Ambassador, El-Talata Yhbonha and Leilat El Zefaf.
  48. Complete the sentence about Umm Kulthum with the correct year: In ______, Rolling Stone ranked Umm Kulthum at number 61 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time.
  49. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Abdel Wahab with the correct year: Mohamed Abdel Wahab was born in ______ in Cairo, Egypt, in a neighborhood called Bab El-Sheriyah, where there is now a statue of…
  50. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Abdel Wahab with the correct year: In ______, Abdel Wahab began composing his own style of Egyptian film musical after visiting Paris and familiarizing himself with…
  51. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Abdel Wahab with the correct year: In ______ Abdel Wahab left film to focus on being a more profound singer.
  52. Complete the sentence about Farid al-Atrash with the correct year: Al-Atrash was born in ______, in Al-Qurayya, in southern Syria to the Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the French colonial…
  53. Complete the sentence about Farid al-Atrash with the correct year: Farid is better known than Asmahan because her career was interrupted by her death in an accident in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Amr Diab with the correct year: Diab graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from the Cairo Academy of Arts in ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Amr Diab with the correct year: By ______, he became the first Egyptian and Middle Eastern artist to start making high-tech music videos.
  56. Complete the sentence about Amr Diab with the correct year: In ______, Diab hosted the first Google Hangout in the Middle East during his performance in Dubai.
  57. Complete the sentence about Mohamed Mounir with the correct year: After completing his military service, Mounir released his ______ debut solo album Alemony Eneeki on the Sonar record label.
  58. Complete the sentence about Sayed Darwish with the correct year: The life of the Sayed Darwish ended on 10 September ______ at the young age of thirty-one.
  59. Complete the sentence about Asmahan with the correct year: On 25 November ______, they embarked on a ship from İzmir to Beirut, and Asmahan was born on board.
  60. Complete the sentence about Asmahan with the correct year: During the period when she was married to her cousin, Hassan, and then later in ______, when she remarried him and returned to Egypt, her mus…
  61. Complete the sentence about Cairo Opera House with the correct year: The funds for the complex were a gift from the nation of Japan to Egypt as a result of President Hosni Mubarak's visit to Japan in…
  62. Complete the sentence about Cairo Opera House with the correct year: In October ______, President Mubarak and Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, the younger brother of the Japanese Emperor, inaugurated the Na…
  63. Complete the sentence about Cairo Opera House with the correct year: In ______, Khedive Ismail gave instructions to build an opera house to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal.
  64. Complete the sentence about Cairo Opera House with the correct year: A little over a century later, in the early morning of 28 October ______, the great Khedivial Royal Opera House was completely dest…
  65. Complete the sentence about Cairo International Film Festival with the correct year: The Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics headed the festival for the first seven years until ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about Egyptian television with the correct year: Since Egypt launched its first broadcasts in ______, state-run channels have held a monopoly on terrestrial broadcast.
  67. Complete the sentence about Egyptian television with the correct year: Most terrestrial channels were in fact satellite channels owned by ERTU, but simulcasted to Greater Cairo, since ______.
  68. Complete the sentence about Al-Ahram with the correct year: The paper was relaunched as a daily newspaper in January ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Al-Ahram with the correct year: Upon the death of Beshara Takla, Daud Barakat, a Lebanese journalist, was named editor of the daily in ______.
  70. Complete the sentence about Al-Ahram with the correct year: President Gamal Abdel Nasser made his friend Mohamed Hassanein Heikal editor-in-chief of al-Ahram in ______, and the paper gained semi-offic…
  71. Complete the sentence about Al-Ahram with the correct year: On 24 May ______, it was nationalized when Nasser passed a law eliminating the ownership of private newspapers.
  72. Complete the sentence about Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr with the correct year: In ______, the channel underwent a graphics upgrade as part of Al Jazeera Media Networks' graphics upgrade across the compan…
  73. Complete the sentence about Nile TV with the correct year: The channel began an experimental service in October ______, in English and French, starting less than three years after the Egyptian Satellt…
  74. Complete the sentence about Belly dance with the correct year: The name first appeared in ______ in a review of the Orientalist painting Dance of the Almeh by Jean-Léon Gérôme.
  75. Complete the sentence about Belly dance with the correct year: The first known use of the term "belly dance" in English is found in the writing of Charles James Wills in ______.
  76. Complete the sentence about Belly dance with the correct year: The Maazin sisters may have been the last authentic performers of Ghawazi dance in Egypt, with Khayreyya Maazin still teaching and perfor…
  77. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Mokhtar with the correct year: Mukhtar moved to Cairo as a child with his mother, and in ______ joined the newly founded Egyptian School of Fine Arts.
  78. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Mokhtar with the correct year: In ______, he joined the studio of Jules Coutan at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
  79. Complete the sentence about Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo with the correct year: In ______ the foundations were laid for the present larger building in the Bab Al-Khalq area of Cairo.
  80. Complete the sentence about Egyptian Football Association with the correct year: The year ______ marked a significant event in football history when Cairo's football fields witnessed the emergence of…
  81. Complete the sentence about Egyptian Football Association with the correct year: In ______, it organized a competition in which several Alexandria clubs and some Egyptian and foreign teams in Cairo pa…
  82. Complete the sentence about Egyptian Football Association with the correct year: In ______, some Egyptian figures managed to assemble a team composed of most of the top players.
  83. Complete the sentence about Al Ahly SC with the correct year: Founded on 24 April ______, the club is renowned for its consistent success at both domestic and continental levels, regularly contending…
  84. Complete the sentence about Cairo International Stadium with the correct year: The stadium was one of the venues for the ______ Africa Cup of Nations.
  85. Complete the sentence about Mido with the correct year: Mido started his career with Egyptian Premier League club Zamalek in ______.
  86. Complete the sentence about Hassan Shehata with the correct year: In ______, Shehata came 3rd in the African Player of the Year by France Football.
  87. Complete the sentence about Hassan Shehata with the correct year: Hassan Shehata was born on June 19, ______ in the city of Kafr El Dawwar, Beheira into an athletic family.
  88. Complete the sentence about Hassan Shehata with the correct year: In his first match with Zamalek, which was held in November ______, Shehata succeeded in scoring a Hat-trick as Zamalek won 4-0.
  89. Complete the sentence about Hassan Shehata with the correct year: After the outbreak of the ______ war, the local competition in Egypt stopped, and Shehata joined the Kuwaiti football club Kazma SC. a…
  90. Complete the sentence about Africa Cup of Nations with the correct year: In the first tournament in ______, there were only three participating nations: Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia.
  91. Complete the sentence about Africa Cup of Nations with the correct year: The origin of the African Nations Cup dates from June ______, when the creation of the Confederation of African Football was pr…
  92. Complete the sentence about Egypt at the Olympics with the correct year: Egypt first participated at the Olympic Games in ______, and has sent athletes to compete in most of the Summer Olympic Games s…
  93. Complete the sentence about Egypt at the Olympics with the correct year: Along with Cambodia, Iraq and Lebanon, Egypt boycotted the ______ Summer Olympics in protest of the tripartite Israeli, British…
  94. Complete the sentence about Egypt at the Olympics with the correct year: Egypt's participation at the Winter Olympic Games was a single alpine skier in ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Egypt at the Olympics with the correct year: The National Olympic Committee for Egypt is the Egyptian Olympic Committee, and was created in ______.
  96. Complete the sentence about Ahmed Hafnaoui with the correct year: Hafnaoui was the only Tunisian to win Olympic gold at Tokyo ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Squash in Egypt with the correct year: As of April ______, Egypt boasted 5 out of the top 10 male players in the world and 5 out of the top 10 female players in the world.
  98. Complete the sentence about Squash in Egypt with the correct year: Squash in Egypt is governed by the Egyptian Squash Association, which was founded in ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Amr Shabana with the correct year: Amr Shabana crowned a remarkable year in ______ when, as ninth seed, he forced his way through a star-studded field in the World Open in…
  100. Complete the sentence about Ramy Ashour with the correct year: In July ______, he became the first player in history to win the World Junior Championships for the second time, defeating fellow Egyptia…

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