Asyut

Like many Arab nationalists, Nasser was educated at an American missionary school, the Wissa Charitable Secondary School in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Asyut.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

Like many Arab nationalists, Nasser was educated at an American missionary school, the Wissa Charitable Secondary School in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Asyut.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Kai Bird 2010

Also at Asyut, two Coptic monks “said to excel all their predecessors in dexterity” prepared the eunuchs prized by Muslim potentates as gifts and harem guardians.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Also at Asyut, two Coptic monks “said to excel all their predecessors in dexterity” prepared the eunuchs prized by Muslim potentates as gifts and harem guardians.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fifty miles south of Asyut, a British expedition led by Professor Arthur Schuster took the first photograph of an Eclipse Comet.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fifty miles south of Asyut, a British expedition led by Professor Arthur Schuster took the first photograph of an Eclipse Comet.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Fifty miles south of Asyut, a British expedition led by Professor Arthur Schuster took the first photograph of an Eclipse Comet.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

One of the franchises, awarded to a team headed by BG and including the Egyptian construction firm Orascom and Petronas, built distribution infrastructure in Upper Egypt as far south as Asyut, where no piped natural gas had been available.

Energy profile of Egypt 2007

Also at Asyut, two Coptic monks “said to excel all their predecessors in dexterity” prepared the eunuchs prized by Muslim potentates as gifts and harem guardians.

Three Empires on the Nile Dominic Green 2007

Once a thriving, bustling port, Asyut was now virtually abandoned.

The War of the Crowns Christian Jacq 2002