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17 unusual facts about Nasr City


6th October Bridge

The '6th October Bridge and Flyover' runs from the Agricultural Museum in Dokki east to the Autostrade in Nasr City.

Abbas El-Akkad Experimental Language School

The Abbas El-Akkad Experimental Language School is an Egyptian school located at 1 Tahseen Fargali Street, Area 1, Nasr City, Cairo.

Al Azhar English Language Resource Center

Al Azhar English Language Resource Center (ELRC), was founded in 2007 at the Nasr City, Cairo campus of Al Azhar University as a result of collaboration between Al Azhar University and the United States Embassy in Cairo.

Ali Ibrahim

He died on March 28, 2010, when a speeding car hit him as he was crossing Salah Salem Street in Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, on his way to train the Egyptian national rowing team.

Assassination of Anwar Sadat

Sadat was buried in the Unknown Soldier Memorial, located in the Nasr City district of Cairo.

Cairo International Stadium

Located in Nasr City; a suburb north east of Cairo, it was completed in 1960, and was inaugurated by President Gamal Abdel Nasser on 23 July that year, the eighth anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

Cairo Manara Boys' Language School

Manara Boys' Language School (Arabic: منارة القاهرة بنين, transliteration: Mānāret Al-Qāhīra li-l-banīn), founded as the The Islamic Cairo Manara in 1985, is an Egyptian school located at Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt.

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.

Khadr El-Touni

In addition to the street in Berlin, Eltouny also had streets in Alexandria and Nasr City named after him in his home country of Egypt.

Lotfy El Tanbouli

In March 1984, the Cairo governmental Council named a street after him in Nasr City.

Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa

On 5 September 2013, a car bomb detonated in Ibrahim's convoy as it traveled through Nasr City.

Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

In October 2009, Tantawy launched a campaign against the niqab (the full-face veil which covers the entire body except for the eyes, increasingly worn by women in Egypt) by personally removing the niqab of a teenage girl (after she failed to remove it) at a secondary school affiliated to Al-Azhar University, which he was touring in Cairo's Madinet Nasr suburb, much to the shock of all concerned.

Osman Abdel Hafeez

The main hall in the Egyptian Fencing Club is named after Abdel Hafeez, as well as a street in Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt and a school in his hometown of Shibin El Kom, Egypt.

Petroleum Air Services

The airline's headquarters is in Nasr City, Doctor Batrawy Street; it moved operations there in 1990.

Rehab City

At the North East side of New Cairo, at the intersection of the Eastern Ring Road with the Cairo/Suez Road, lies Al Rehab; ten minutes from Heliopolis and Nasr City, at the extension of Thawra street and Zakker Hussein street, from Nasr City, and 30 minutes from downtown Cairo.

Trams in Greater Cairo

Constructed near the beginning of the 20th century, the Cairo tramway network is still used in modern-day Cairo, especially in modern areas, like Heliopolis, Nasr City.

Zakaria Mohieddin

His funeral was held at the Aal Rashdan Mosque in Nasr City, which is associated with the Egyptian military.