This handbook provides basic reference information on Egypt, including its geography, history, government, military forces, and communications and transportation networks. This information is intended to familiarize military personnel with local customs and area knowledge to assist them during their assignment to Egypt.
The Egypt Cultural Field Guide is designed to provide deploying military personnel an overview of Egypt’s cultural terrain. In this field guide, Egypt cultural history has been synopsized to capture the more significant aspects of the Egypt cultural environment, with emphasis on factors having the greatest potential to impact operations.
Photos of hundreds of Egyptian State Security officers, including the names of more than fifty high ranking officers. These photos were recently removed by Flickr for “copyright violations” after they were posted by protesters that recovered the information from DVDs taken from State Security headquarters.
See also: Egyptian Revolution Photos February 2011 Egyptian Revolution Photos January 2011 M Soli – http://www.flickr.com/photos/24610655@N08/ Kodak Afgha – http://www.flickr.com/photos/96884693@N00/ Maggie Osama – http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggieosama/ Mahmoud Saber – http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahmoudsaber/ Omar Robert Hamilton – http://www.flickr.com/photos/56458828@N02/
Five U.S. State Department Overseas Advisory Council Egyptian Revolution Warnings from January 26 – February 2, 2011.
counterfire – http://www.flickr.com/photos/counterfire/ rouelshimi – http://www.flickr.com/photos/rouelshimi/ erik-n – http://www.flickr.com/photos/erik-n/ darkroom productions – http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkroomproductions/ Omar Robert Hamilton – http://www.flickr.com/photos/56458828@N02/ Nasser Nouri – http://www.flickr.com/photos/nassernouri/ Floris Van Cauwelaert – http://www.flickr.com/photos/flomobile Photo by Iman Mossad – http://www.flickr.com/photos/imosaad/
An Arabic manual for Egyptian protesters circulated via email and in hard copy prior to the protests on Friday January 28, 2010.
These photos are from the last several days, beginning approximately January 26, 2011. Photo credits are at the bottom of the page. Special attention should be given to the fact that Al Jazeera English and many reporters have released…