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Gezira a region of the E central Sudan between the Blue and White Niles: site of a large-scale irrigation system How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These units sought to disrupt commerce on the highway between Port Sudan and Khartoum, destabilize the economy of the grain-growing Kassala-Gedaref area, and place at risk the Roseires dam on the Blue Nile, which provides three-quarters of Khartoum's electricity and stores water essential for the Gezira and Rahad cotton-growing areas. The British period also survives in the thousands of art-deco apartment buildings sprinkled throughout the city; in the stately old Mena House Hotel just a stone's throw from the Giza Pyramids; in the former British military headquarters at the tip of Gezira Island (off-limits to tourists but visible from the Gezira Sheraton Hotel); and in the splendidly gothic (circa 1900) Egyptian Museum, where the high ceilings, gloomy hallways and Victorian display cases look like a set from ``The Mummy. 69) Two centers for the "Islamization of knowledge" were established at the universities of Khartoum and Gezira to see that the curricula of higher education institutions are purified from things contradictory to Islam, and to inject a spirit of Islam in "knowledge". |
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