1997 | 1997 in music | Titanic (1997 film) | United Kingdom general election, 1997 | Luxor | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre | massacre | 1997–98 in English football | November Uprising | 1997 ATP Tour | 1997 in baseball | Canadian federal election, 1997 | 1997 in film | 1997 Mediterranean Games | Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) | November | Columbine High School massacre | Protection from Harassment Act 1997 | Peterloo Massacre | 1997 Copa América | Wounded Knee Massacre | Pippi Longstocking (1997 TV series) | Hercules (1997 film) | 1997 Asian financial crisis | Virginia Tech massacre | The Birthday Massacre | My Lai Massacre | Massacre of Glencoe | The Brian Jonestown Massacre | Ludlow Massacre |
The most bloody attack prior to the Sharm el-Sheikh bombings was the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians died.
In June 2013, Zazou submitted his resignation in protest at President Morsi's appointment of a member of the Construction and Development party as governor of Luxor - this party being associated with the Jama'a al-Islamiya group, which had killed 62 tourists and local tourism-industry workers in the 1997 Luxor Massacre.
When he was a medical student in 1997, he, Professor Tsuchida, and Tsuchida's daughter were caught in the November 1997 Luxor massacre.