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Africa [r]: Continent stretching over the equator, hosting deserts, tropical jungles and savannah as well as over fifty nations; population about 900,000,000. ^[e]
Middle East [r]: A geographical region in Asia that also contains small parts of Europe and Africa. ^[e]
Maghreb [r]: The Muslim-majority, Arabic and Berber-speaking countries of North Africa, bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea and often by the Sahara Desert on the south. ^[e]

Alexander the Great [r]: King of Macedon who conquered the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BCE. ^[e]
Great Pyramid of Giza [r]: Largest and oldest of the pyramids in the Giza Necropolis of Greater Cairo, Egypt; was the tallest building for nearly 4,000 years, and is the largest pyramid ever constructed. ^[e]
Félix d'Hérelle [r]: (1873 – 1949) - A French-Canadian bacteriologist, and the discoverer of bacteriophages. ^[e]
Imhotep [r]: The Egyptian architect, alive during the years 2650-2600 B.C, responsible for the first pyramid. ^[e]

Nile River [r]: One of the longest rivers in the world at about 6,695km from its source in the south to the Mediterranean Sea in the north. ^[e]
Suez Canal [r]: Add brief definition or description
Sinai Peninsula [r]: Add brief definition or description
Gaza Strip [r]: 26-mile-long Middle Eastern coastal region long the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Egypt and Israel; population about 1.4 million Palestinian people, governed by Hamas since June 2007. ^[e]
Israel [r]: Country in the Middle East. ^[e]
Libya [r]: North African revolutionary republic led by Muammar Gaddafi, which normalised diplomatic ties with the West in 2003; fourth-largest African nation, population about 6,000,000. ^[e]
Sudan [r]: A nation in East Africa/Horn of Africa, with the largest land area of any country in Africa, and near-continuous civil wars since British independence in 1956; effectively a federation of Arab and African parts, with the southern region voting for independence in 2011. ^[e]

Egyptian Neopaganism [r]: A modern religious revival attempting to reconstruct the beliefs and practices of ancient Egypt. ^[e]
Al-Azhar University [r]: Located in Cairo,Egypt, while associated with conservative Sunni, generally considered the world's premier educational institution in Islamic studies ^[e]

Arab Spring [r]: Protest movements in the Arab world that seek the removal of oppressive governments. ^[e]

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