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  2. Ain Shams - Wikipedia

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    Ain Shams (also spelled Ayn or Ein - Arabic: عين شمس, [ʕeːn ʃæms], Coptic: ⲱⲛ ⲡⲉⲧ ⲫⲣⲏ) is a district in the Eastern Area of Cairo, Egypt. The name means "Eye of the Sun" in Arabic, referring to the fact that the district contained the ruins of the ancient city of Heliopolis, once the spiritual centre of ancient Egyptian sun-worship, and settled since 3100 BCE ...

  3. Ain Shams University - Wikipedia

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    Ain Shams University was founded in July 1950, the third-oldest non-sectarian native public Egyptian university (ancient Islamic universities such as Al-Azhar and private institutions such as the American University in Cairo are older), under the name of Ibrahim Pasha 's University. Its site used to be a former royal palace, called the Zafarana ...

  4. Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University - Wikipedia

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    Website. med .asu .edu .eg. Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine or School of Medicine, is a public Egyptian graduate school and one of the faculties of Ain Shams University. Now, it is one of the largest educational medical institutions in Africa and the Middle East. It was founded in 1947, making it the third oldest medical school in Egypt.

  5. Battle of Heliopolis - Wikipedia

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    Battle of Heliopolis. /  30.12944389°N 31.28888889°E  / 30.12944389; 31.28888889. The Battle of Heliopolis or Ayn Shams was a decisive battle between Arab Muslim armies and Byzantine forces for the control of Egypt. Though there were several major skirmishes after this battle, it effectively decided the fate of the Byzantine rule in ...

  6. Saffron Palace - Wikipedia

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    The Saffron Palace was an Egyptian royal palace. Farouk of Egypt is said to have been born in it. The three-storey palace, designed by the French-educated Egyptian architect Moghri bey Saad, [1] was built during the reign of Isma'il Pasha. It received its name from the saffron plantations which then existed around the palace.

  7. Fawzia Fahim - Wikipedia

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    Anti-tumor effects of venoms and iodoacetate. Fawzia Abbas Fahim (born 9 December 1931) is an Egyptian biochemist and environmental biologist known for her work on the anti-tumoral effects of snake venom and iodoacetate. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Ain Shams University, Egypt. Fahim has also made important contributions to ...

  8. Entissar Amer - Wikipedia

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    Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. . . ( m. 1977) . Children. 4, including Mahmoud. Alma mater. Ain Shams University. Entissar Amer ( Arabic: انتصار عامر, IPA: [enteˈsˤɑːɾ ˈʕæːmeɾ]; born 3 December 1956) is the current First Lady of Egypt, since her husband Abdel Fattah el-Sisi became the sixth President of Egypt on 8 June 2014.

  9. Sakher Habash - Wikipedia

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    He studied geology and water resources at Ain Shams University in Cairo beginning in 1958 and later in the University of Arizona. Political career. He became a Palestinian nationalist in the early 1960s and joined Fatah in 1962, being responsible for recruitment. He was appointed Fatah regional command in Lebanon in October 1972.