Cairo

Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt and its largest and most important city at all. It is the largest Arab city in terms of population and area and ranks second in Africa and the seventeenth in the world in terms of population. The city of Al-Qahah is one of the most culturally and culturally diverse cities, as it witnessed many different historical periods throughout the ages, and there are many ancient and modern monuments in it, so it has become an open museum that includes Pharaonic, Greek, Roman, Coptic and Islamic antiquities. The history of the city dates back to the establishment of the Pharaonic city of En or Heliopolis, “Ain Shams now”, which is one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. As for Cairo, in its current style, its establishment dates back to the Islamic conquest of Egypt by Amr ibn al-Aas in 641 AD and the establishment of the city of Fustat, then the establishment of the Abbasids for the city of al-Askar, so Ahmed ibn Tulun built the city of al-Qata’i, and with the entry of the Fatimids into Egypt coming from Ifriqiya (Tunisia now), Commander Jawhar began Al-Sicilian in building the new capital of the Fatimid state by order of the Fatimid caliph al-Muizz Li Din Allah in the year 969 AD, and the caliph named it “Cairo.” Cairo has been called – throughout the ages – many names, as it is the city of a thousand minarets, Egypt the Guard, and Cairo of the Moez. During the Islamic era, Cairo witnessed the finest architecture, which was represented in the construction of castles, forts, walls, schools and mosques, which gave it an aesthetic glimpse that still exists in its ancient neighborhoods until now. Cairo is considered a governorate and a city, meaning that it is a governorate that occupies the entire area of one city, and at the same time a large city that constitutes a governorate in its own right, and is divided into 37 neighborhoods, and Cairo celebrates its national day on July 6 of each year, which is the day that corresponds to the laying of the city’s foundation stone by the leader, Jawhar al-Siqali. In the year 969 AD, bringing the age of Cairo now to more than 1044 years. Cairo is also the headquarters of many regional and international organizations, where the headquarters of the League of Arab States are located, and the regional office of: the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations for Women, The headquarters of the United Nations Development Programme, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs of the United Nations, as well as the headquarters of the Confederation of African Basketball.