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What is the capital of Egypt?
Cairo
What is the largest city in Africa?
Cairo
How many people live in Cairo?
12 million
How many people live in Egypt?
74 million
What did the Muslim warrior, Saladin, build in the 12th century?
a fort
What percent of the land do people live on?
Only 4 percent
What type of landform makes up most of Egypt?
Desert
What does Hader's family like to sit around?
a tv
In what other way does the Hader family den serve?
It is their bedroom too.
Around how many children are in one classroom?
50-60 children
What is one of the reasons that so many people are illiterate?
1. overcrowding 2. lack of funds 3. high dropout rates
Define illiterate.
unable to read or write
What percent of people in Egypt are illiterate?
43 percent
What is the name of the Muslim religion?
Islam
What do you learn at a Madrasa?
basic subjects and Islam
Islam is the religion of whom?
Muslims
