Cairo, Egypt's MEGACITY: Largest City in the Middle East
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Published 2017-09-14
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All Comments (21)
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To all the ignorant people complaining about the title of the video being 'Cairo: MEGACITY of the Middle East': First, the middle east is not a continent. Second, yes, Egypt is definitely a Middle eastern country and people. We have always had strong relations and cultural ties to other Middle Eastern countries. Where a continent begins and ends doesn't mean anything to the people, it's just a matter of geography. The middle east is more than geography, it's common history, language, food, culture and migration. - sincerely, an Egyptian woman.
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Lol people are fighting whether Egypt is in middle east or afica but they don't realise that middle east is region not a continent
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Africa = continent Middle East = region Africa + Middle East = Egypt
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“There’s beauty in everything, but not everyone is able to feel it.” ― Anis Mansour
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For people who complain about that Cairo is in Africa and not the Middle East... First off I'm Egyptian and if you want to know I live in Alexandria not Cairo Egypt as a country geographically belong to Africa (except Sinai peninsula which is located in Asia) but the point here is that Egypt's culture, language, religion and history is shared commonly with its neighbours from the Middle East (and btw Cairo was built by the Fatimiuun which are Arabs too) And Sorry if my English was bad or anything
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Geographically, Egypt is in Africa. Culturally, historically, linguistically, geopolitically, and socially, Egypt is in the Middle East. Clear?
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Nice city you've got there Egypt, much love from a Nigeria
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It's a shame about the politics there. It's really a beautiful place, historically and today. God bless Egypt and the Egyptian people.
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As an Egyptian woman, I'm so happy that you finally did Cairo! Everyone things that its just a desert with Pyramids and ancient museums. You research was unbiased and covered a lot o things in 10 minutes, the new capital, the 2 revolutions, the Islamic era and things that I didn't even know about it hahaha. However, when it comes to climate change in Alexandria, it's not like that, we are on our way of completely destroying our coastline and beaches by building new buildings, cafés, restaurants, hotels right on the beach. This might create a physical barrier so we don't notice it on the short term. It's now hard to see the sea from all of this new buildings. But as someone born and raised there, one of our nightmares is a possible high tsunami destroying everything, not gradual high sea levels by climate change. We, as Alexandrian, kind of lost hope.. it feels almost inevitable.. Thanks again! #NotificationSquad
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Love Egypt from greece❤❤🖒👍👏🤗Plz make alexandria
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The media refuses us to see this lovely city inside Egypt. All of my life I thought Egypt was all dessert and Pyramids but I was wrong.
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حد مصري هنا
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As an African I honestly don't consider Egypt as an African country, always link it with the rest of the middle east so I'm not bothered by the title one bit.
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Ohh! Love this series!
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Any egyptian out here?
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Yassir Arafat 🇵🇸 was born in Cairo 🇪🇬 Our former president. Salam Alaikum from Palestine.
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Someday I'm Visit to Cairo Egypt .... Salam From Indonesia
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I wish america was spending billions on building new cities instead of new bombs
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Do Beijing
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Do London next