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Assyut (101 words) |
 | Assyut is situated on the Nile, in the middle of Egypt. |
| Assyut is a junction for the waterways from the Nile, there is a dam of the Nile nearby, and the Ibrahimiyya Canal starts here. |
| Assyut is both a centre of Copts, and of militant Islamism. |
| Assyut: Bustling of modern and old (339 words) |
| The line of militant Islamism which has its centre in Assyut, is the one killing Sadat in 1981, and the one that moved to USA with shaykh Omar Abdu r-Rahman, and believed to have been responsible for the bombing of World Trade Center in New York in 1993. |
| Assyut was worth visiting earlier, but there are many far better places in Egypt that has as much and more to offer. |
| Assyut has also the only connections south of Cairo and north of everything, with the oases in the west. |
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