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8 unusual facts about Maadi


Antonios Naguib

From 1953 to 1958, he studied at the interritual seminary of Maadi, Cairo and, later, at the Pontifical Urbaniana College, Rome.

Frank Shuman

Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station in Maadi, Egypt (1912-1913).

Maadi Community Church

The Maadi Community Church is a large, interdenominational international Christian church in Maadi, an affluent suburb of Egypt's capital city Cairo.

Percy Stout

He and his American wife, Mary, settled in Maadi in 1910, becoming one of the earliest settlers to the region.

Pope Mark VII of Alexandria

He departed on 12 Pashons 1485 A.M. (18 May 1769 AD), while he was residing in a monastery in Maadi.

Reginald Ernest Moreau

The young couple preferred to live at Maadi close to Wadi Digha where they kept a pet raven and conducted experiments to see if the plumage colours of larks were genetically inherited.

Vodafone Egypt

Vodafone Egypt was initially headquartered in Maadi, Cairo since 1998 and until 2003; when Vodafone moved its headquarters to the Sixth of October City.

Xinhua News Agency

In November 2005, Xinhua News Agency opened a new office building alongside the Nile River in Cairo's Maadi district.


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George Kenneth Lucey Jr.

For safety, the family moved outside Cairo to Maadi, where the children attended the Cairo American School (1952–53) and the Maadi Sporting Club.

Kazeboon

Kazeboon screenings began on December 29, 2011, taking place in public squares in El Mansheya, Alexandria and the Cairo districts of Zamalek, Maadi, Nasr City and Giza.

Medinet Maadi

Medinet Maadi is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet (a harvest deity) was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and Amenemhat IV (1855–1799 BC).


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