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Egypt Today

Egypt Today. Suez Canal. An estimated 3.9 million barrels of oil per day are transported from the Middle East to the West via the Suez. (7/ 2009) Revenues fell 20% to $332.4 million in January, compared to $414.2 million in the same month last year

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Egypt Today

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  1. Egypt Today

  2. Suez Canal • An estimated 3.9 million barrels of oil per day are transported from the Middle East to the West via the Suez. (7/ 2009) • Revenues fell 20% to $332.4 million in January, compared to $414.2 million in the same month last year • The number of vessels using the waterway was 1,313 in January, down from 1,690 in January 2008 and from 1,560 in December, based on state figures, reportedly a five-year low. • Ismail Pasha

  3. Egypt under foreign influence

  4. King Fuad

  5. King Farouk

  6. Gamal Abdel Nasser

  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNCWpFmCplY&feature=related Aswan High Dam

  8. Anwar Sadat • 3rd President of Egypt • From October 15, 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalists on October 6, 1981

  9. Hosni Mubarak • 4th & current President • October 14, 1981 to present (30 years)

  10. Muslim Brotherhood • Founded in 1928 • In 1954 attempted to assassinate Nasser Nasser came down hard on Brotherhood and executed 6 leaders Brotherhood went into hiding throughout the 60’s and 70’s Now are visible & powerful force in Egypt

  11. Cairo • Paris of the Middle East, Near East and Africa

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