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• - War fought in 1967 between Israel on one side and Egypt, Jordan and Syria on the other.
  
• - Capital of Yemen with 1.65 million inhabitants.
  
• - City in Tunisia with 340,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Peninsula in Egypt, with an area of 61,000 square km and a population of about 60,000.
  
• - Chapter of the Holy Koran.
  
• - Israeli prime minister, military officer and politician, former defence and building minister.
  
• - Egyptian Pharaoh, reigning from 1878 to 1843 BCE, being the 5th ruler of the 12th dynasty.
  
• - American-Palestinian professor, social and literature scientist.
  
• - Larva that strikes hard on the population in countries like Egypt and Sudan.
  
• - Touristic town in Egypt with 4,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Country in the Middle East, located south of Iraq, and north of Yemen.
  
• - City of Libya with 15,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Jewish weekly holy day of rest, starting on Friday afternoon, lasting until Saturday afternoon.
  
• - River in Iran and Iraq, of about 170 km length.
  
• - Egyptian Pharaoh, reigning from 1962- 1928 BCE, being the 2nd of the 12th dynasty.
  
• - City in Morocco with 360,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Oasis in western Egypt with 15,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Mystical orientation inside Sunni Islam.
  
• - Main group in Islam, making up 90% of the religion's adherents.
  
• - City in Tunisia with 250,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Funerary area in Egypt, 40 km south of Cairo and Giza.
  
• - Jewish festival, where living in huts made out of boughs gives the festival its name.
  
• - Egyptian film actor with world-wide success.
  
• - People in western Sahara with a population between 500,000 and 1 million.
  
• - Artificial waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to Gulf of Suez.
  
• - Egyptian doctor, author and feminist.
  
• - Ritual prayer or divine service in Islam.
  
• - Arabic name for market in a city or village.
  
• - President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981.
  
• - The world's largest desert, covering large parts of North Africa.
  
• - The central house of religious activities in Jewish religion.
  
• - Egyptian Pharaoh, ruling from 1314 to 1304 BCE, during the 19th dynasty.
  
• - City in southwestern Iran with 1,050,000 inhabitants.
  
• - Gulf that is an arm of the Red Sea, touching Egypt.
  
• - Language group that includes the languages Arabic, Hebrew in the Middle East region.
  
• - War fought between Egypt on one side, and Israel, Britain and France on the other.
  
• - The largest non-Sunni branch of Islam, the Shi`i.
  
• - The creed of Islam, and one of the religion's five pillars.
  
• - Religious group, representing their own religion. Between 550 and 600 adherents.
  
• - The law system inspired by the Koran, the Sunna, older Arabic law systems.
  
• - Jewish festival, that takes place on 6. Sivan, 7 weeks after Pesach.
  
• - Fast in Islam, lasting one month, during the whole of the month of Ramadan.
  
• - Country located in the Middle East, south of Turkey and north of Jordan.
  
• - City in Egypt with 500,000 inhabitants.
  
• - City in Morocco with 400,000 inhabitants.
  
• - First Ayyubid sultan, and famous for having recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
  
• - Country located in the Middle East, on the southern border of Egypt.
  
• - Town in Morocco with 15,000 inhabitants.
  
• - City in Algeria with 250,000 inhabitants.
  
• - King of Saudi Arabia (1953-64).
  
  

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