!!!Egypt: Culture $$$$11 !!World Heritage * [Abu Mena|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/90] * [Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/87] * [Historic Cairo|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/89] * [Memphis and its Necropolis – the Pyramid Fields from Giza to Dahshur|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/86] * [Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/88] * [Saint Catherine Area|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/954] * [Wadi Al-Hitan (Whale Valley)|http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1186] $$$$12 $$$$21 !!Nobel Prize Winners (6) Here persons are counted for the country they born in or if their affiliation is with this country. %%sortable ||Name||Category||Year||Motivation | [Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1978/al-sadat/facts]|Peace|1978| | [Yasser Arafat|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1994/arafat/facts]|Peace|1994|"for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East" | [Mohamed ElBaradei|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2005/elbaradei/facts]|Peace|2005|"for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way" | [Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1964/hodgkin/facts]|Chemistry|1964|"for her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances" | [Naguib Mahfouz|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1988/mahfouz/facts]|Literature|1988|"who, through works rich in nuance - now clear-sightedly realistic, now evocatively ambiguous - has formed an Arabian narrative art that applies to all mankind" | [Ahmed H. Zewail|https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1999/zewail/facts]|Chemistry|1999|"for his studies of the transition states of chemical reactions using femtosecond spectroscopy" %% $$$$22 $$$$51 $$$$52