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  Ibrahim Pasha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ibrahim Pasha was born in the town of Kavala, currently located in the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery of Greece.
In 1805 and during his father's struggle to establish himself in Egypt, Ibrahim, an adolescent of sixteen years of age, was sent as a hostage to the Ottoman capitan Pasha (admiral).
Ibrahim was undoubtedly helped by Colonel Sève arid the European officers in his army, But his intelligent docility to their advice, as well as his personal hardiness and energy, compare most favourably with the sloth, ignorance and arrogant conceit of the Ottoman generals opposed to him.
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 Battle of Navarino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ibrahim was sent to Peloponnesos with a squadron and a Western trained army of 17,000 men in the service of Ottoman sultan Mahmud II.
Ibrahim's operations in the Morea were energetic and ferocious.
He easily defeated the Greeks in the open field, and though the siege of Messolonghi proved costly to his own troops and to the Ottoman forces who operated with him, he brought it to a successful termination on April 24, 1826.
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 Ibrahim Pasha - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Ibrahim served as Regent for his father from July to 10 November 1848.
The holy cities had been recovered from the Wahhabis, and Ibrahim's task was to follow them into the desert of Nejd and destroy their fortresses.
Their squadrons cut his communications by sea with Egypt, a general revolt isolated him in Syria, and he was finally compelled to evacuate the country in February 1841.
www.voyager.in /Ibrahim_Pasha   (1233 words)

  
 Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Egypt / Bibliography
Holt, P.M. Egypt and the Fertile Crescent, 1516-1922.
Religious Strife in Egypt: Crisis and Ideological Conflict in the Seventies.
Muslim Extremism in Egypt: The Prophet and the Pharaoh.
lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/egypt/eg_bibl.html   (4199 words)

  
 Middle East Information
Egypt until the overthrow of King Faruk I in 1952.
Ibrahim Pasha (1789-1848), Egyptian general and viceroy, born in Kavála,
Abbas I (of Egypt) (1813-1854), pasha of Egypt
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 North Carolina Belly Dancers and Troupes
Her most recent study of the Whirling Dervish, in the Sufi, Mevlevi tradition of turning was under the tutelage of Shayka Khadija (Marcia Radin).
They have just recently completed their 2nd tour of Cairo, Egypt, been invited to perform at The Conga Square Jazz Festival in Calcutta, India 2 years in a row, and a jazz festival in Poland as well.
JAAFAR is a revolving door of extremely talented musicians, with a willingness to push themselves and their audience to unforeseen places, fuseing traditional Arabic music, classical Indian concepts of composition, North African rhythmic grooves, and pure American "old-school Funk" to produce the INCREDIBLY unique soundscape that is Jaafar.
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