Faiyum (/faɪˈjuːm/ fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest...

29.36333; 30.74583 Faiyum Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الفيوم Muḥāfāzah Al Fayyūm) is one of the governorates of Egypt in the middle of the country. Its...

On October 14, 2023, Wadea al-Fayoume (Arabic: وديع الفيوم, romanized: Wadīʿa al-Fayyūm), a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy, was killed when he was...

New Faiyum (Arabic: الفيوم الجديدة Madīnat al-Fayyūm al-Jadīdah) is a planned city in Middle Egypt. A third-generation new Egyptian city, it is a suburb...

only about 100 Greek letters. The fragment was originally discovered in Al-Fayyum, Egypt, and was translated in 1885 by Gustav Bickell after it was found...

by the Fayyum Basin, a depression area of about 1500 km². It has a triangular shape with the tip pointing south. The central town is al-Fayyūm, which...

The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Waḥet El Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo...

lyonsi from fossil remains found in the Qasr el Sagha Formation in the Al Fayyum in Egypt. Andrews described Moeritherium gracile from fossil remains of...

Iẓhār Ṣan‘at al-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm fū Tartīb Bilād al-Fayyūm ('demonstrating the everlasting Eternal's design in ordering the villages of the Fayyum'). A history...

northern reaches of Al Fayyum Oasis, drained into the Nile in ancient times. For centuries sweet water artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted...

Islam in the seventh century. At the turn of the eighth century, Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan decreed[citation needed] that Arabic replace Koine Greek...

another martyr of the Christian church. He was born at Bamujeh in the Al Fayyum area of Egypt. He was a zealous Christian who was martyred for his Christianity...

of the city and left it in ruins, without inhabitants. After sacking al-Fayyum in 1485, the Hawwara tribes became the true rulers of Upper Egypt. In...

assaults as well as his personal closeness to al-Adid. After Shawar was assassinated and Shirkuh died in 1169, al-Adid appointed Saladin as vizier. During...

Dakahlia EG-BA Al Baḩr al Aḩmar Red Sea البحر الأحمر Red Sea EG-BH Al Buḩayrah البحيرة Beheira EG-FYM Al Fayyūm الفيوم Faiyum EG-GH Al Gharbīyah الغربية...

Fayoum University (FU) (Arabic: جامعة الفيوم, Jame'at al-fayoum) is a public university located in the Egyptian city of Faiyum in northern Egypt. From...

similar demonstrations broke out in Alexandria, Tanta, Damanhur, Al Mansurah, and Al Fayyum. By the summer of 1919, more than 800 Egyptians had been killed...

Amr ibn al-As ibn Wa'il al-Sahmi (Arabic: عَمْرِو بْنِ الْعَاصِ بْنِ وَائِل السَّهْمِي, romanized: ʿAmr ibn al-ʿĀṣ ibn Wāʾil al-Sahmī; c. 573 – 664) was...

notable politician. Riyad al-Anfus fi Tizkar al-Muhandis (Arabic: رياض الأنفس في تذكار المهندس). Al-'Ilm al-Nafees bi al-Fayyum wa Buhayrat Muris (1889)...

for hunting game. Another Egyptian sling was excavated in El-Lahun in Al Fayyum Egypt in 1914 by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and is now in the Petrie...

There are indications of seasonal or only temporary occupation of the Al Fayyum in the 6th millennium BCE, with food activities centering on fishing,...

embracing the province of Arsinoë (formerly Crocodilopolis, now the city of Al Fayyum). Between the hills on which the Pyramids stand and the corresponding...

point, Malak moved with al-Basil to al-Fayyum, in the desert, and she began writing under the pseudonym Bahithat al-Badiya.: 65  It was there that she found...

state in 1944. The King met Shukri Al Quwatli, the first president of independent Syria, on 17 February 1945 in Al Fayyum, Egypt. Both Saudi Arabia and Syria...

Governorate, Egypt EG02 Al Baḩr al Aḩmar Governorate, Egypt EG03 Al Buḩayrah Governorate, Egypt EG04 Al Fayyūm Governorate, Egypt EG05 Al Gharbīyah Governorate...

Mahalla, Dumyat, and Fayyum. He started teaching Shafi'i jurisprudence at the age of 18, at the same mosque as his father did. Al-Suyuti became the head...

Mu'nis al-Qushuri (Arabic: أبو الحسن مؤنس القشوري; 845/6–933), also commonly known by the surnames al-Muẓaffar (المظفر; lit. 'the Victorious') and al-Khadim...

from many periods. Royal sarcophagus Woman's sarcophagus Portrait from Al Fayyum Ptolemaic sacred stele Egyptian funerary mask A separate section of the...

to cross the river to Fustat, al-Qa'im led a large part of his army around Takin's defences and into the fertile Fayyum Oasis, where they could find provisions...

been fed by a new canal to allow water again to make it from the Nile to Al Fayyum. The entire waterway is over 300 km long, consisting of modern canals...