Events in the year 2017 in

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Film and television *'' Præsident ...

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. After the 2011 Egyptian revolution and 201 ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

Sherif Ismail Sherif Ismail (, ; 6 July 1955 – 4 February 2023) was an Egyptian engineer and politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 2015 to 2018. He was also the minister of petroleum and mineral resources from 2013 to 2015. Early life ...

Events

*9 April – The Palm Sunday church bombings, twin suicide bombings that took place at St. George’s Church in

Tanta Tanta ( ' ) is a city in Egypt. Tanta had a population of 658,798 in 2018, making it the fifth most populous city in Egypt. Tanta is located between Cairo and Alexandria: north of Cairo and southeast of Alexandria. The capital of Gharbia Gove ...

, and

Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral () is a Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Coptic church architecture, church located in the Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt. The cathedral is the Seat of the Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria, seat of ...

Alexandria Alexandria ( ; ) is the List of cities and towns in Egypt#Largest cities, second largest city in Egypt and the List of coastal settlements of the Mediterranean Sea, largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western edge of the Nile ...

, killed at least 45 people and injured more than 100. *26 April - Live bullets were fired on protestors during the

2016–17 Egyptian protests The 2016-2017 Egyptian protests was a mass protest movement and political unrest movement against president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his reforms, government and many other core issues. The first and major issue was massive corruption and the selling ...

who were protesting the selling of Tiran and

Sanafir Sanafir Island (, ) is a Saudi Island. It was previously administered by Egypt. Its area is about and it is located at the entrance to the Straits of Tiran, which separates the Gulf of Aqaba from the Red Sea. The island is about 2.5 km f ...

to Saudi Arabia. *26 May – Egyptian military launch airstrikes against Libyan targets due to terrorist attack which killed 26 Coptic Christians. *11 August – Alexandria train collision.

Sport

*1-9 July – the

2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup The 2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup (Arabic: 2017 كأس العالم لكرة السلة تحت 19 سنة فيبا) was the 13th edition of the FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, the biennial international men's youth basketball champi ...

was held in

Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...

*18-25 August – the

2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship The 2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship was the third and final edition of the international volleyball tournament and the world championship for men's national teams under the age of 23, organized by the sport's world governing body ...

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

event hosted by Egypt

Deaths

*6 January – Awad Moukhtar Halloudah, swimmer (born 1931) *12 January –

Karima Mokhtar Karima Mokhtar (, born Attyat Mohamed El Badry; 16 January 1934 – 12 January 2017) was an Egyptian stage, television and film Actor whose career spanned for more than fifty years, and was considered as the "Mother of Egyptian Drama". Life K ...

, actress (born 1934) *1 April –

Talaat al-Shayeb Talaat al-Shayeb (Arabic: طلعت الشايب) (1942–2017) was an Egyptian author, translator and intellectual. He translated and reviewed more than one international literate work. Early life Talaat al-Shayeb born in 1942 in Al-Batanun v ...

, author (born 1942) *4 April –

Samir Farid Samir Farid (, ) (December 1, 1943 – April 4, 2017) was an Egyptian writer and a world renowned film critic, journalist and film historian based in Cairo. He authored and/or translated over 60 books since 1966 on Egyptian, Arab and World cinema ...

, writer and film critic (born 1943) *15 June –

Ibrahim Abouleish Ibrahim Abouleish (; 23 March 1937 – 15 June 2017) was an Egyptian philanthropist, drug designer and chemist. He began his chemistry and medicine studies at the age of 19 in Austria. He did his doctorate in 1969 in the field of pharmacology an ...

, pharmacologist (born 1937) *7 July –

Ahmed Mansi Colonel Ahmed Mansy (; October 4, 1978–July 7, 2017) was the commander of Egypt's Sa'ka Forces (Special Forces) Thunderbolt Battalion 103. Life He was born in 1978 in Minya al-Qamh district in al-Sharqiyya governorate. He joined the Sa'ka F ...

, SEAL military commander (born 1978)

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