2019 in Egypt
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Events in the year 2019 in Egypt.
Events
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- February 27 – Ramses Station rail disaster: A train smashes into a barrier inside Ramses Station in Cairo, Egypt, causing an explosion and a fire, killing 25 people and injuring 40 others.[1]
- June 21 - 2019 Africa Cup of Nations begins.
- August 4 – 2019 Cairo bombing: twenty people are killed.[2]
- September 22 – Police crack down on protests against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. 274 protesters are arrested in Cairo, Suez City, Port Said, Alexandria, and other cities after the actor and contractor Mohamed Ali alleges Sisi and top military officers are enriching themselves by building palaces and hotels.[3]
Deaths
May
- May 5 – Hani Shukrallah, Egyptian journalist (b. 1950)[4]
June
- June 5 – Mohamed Negm, Egyptian actor and comedian (b. 1944)[5]
- June 17 – Mohamed Morsi, 5th President of Egypt (b. 1951)[6]
July
- July 1 – Ezzat Abou Aouf, Egyptian actor (b. 1948)[7]
- July 21 – Adel Zaky, Egyptian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1947)[8]
- July 25 – Farouk al-Fishawy, Egyptian actor (b. 1952)[9]
September
- September 4 – Abdullah Morsi, son of Mohamed Morsi (b. 1994)[10]
November
- November 7 – Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (b. 1984)[11]
References
- ^ "Deadly fire after train crashes at Cairo's main station". France 24. February 27, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
- ^ "Twenty dead in explosion outside Cairo hospital". Reuters. Haitham Ahmed, Alaa Swilam and Mahmoud Reda Mourad. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
- ^ Riot police crack down on spontaneous demonstrations against President Sisi in cities across Egypt Archived 2019-10-03 at the Wayback Machine by Borzou Daragahi, The Independent, 22 Sep 2020
- ^ "Prominent Egyptian journalist, Ahram Online founder Hani Shukrallah dies at 69". Archived from the original on 2019-05-09. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- ^ "Egyptian theatre star Mohamed Negm dies at 75". Archived from the original on 2019-06-08. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- ^ "Egypt's ousted president Mohammed Morsi dies during trial". BBC News. 17 June 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-06-17. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "Veteran Egyptian actor Ezzat Abu Auf dies at 70". July 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ "Bishop Adel Zaky". Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
- ^ "Egyptian actor Farouk Al Fishawy dies, aged 67, following cancer battle". 25 July 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-07-26. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
- ^ "Son of former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi dies aged 25". Associated Press. September 5, 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ "Actor Haitham, son of film star Ahmed Zaki, dies at 35". EgyptToday. 7 November 2019. Retrieved 2019-11-07.