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  RealEstate Neighbohoods
That is what Maadi is all about, located in the southern suburbs of Cairo, distinguished not only by its geographic isolation far from the rest of Cairo but by a significant style and an overwhelming greenery dominating its streets.
Maadi stands in the middle of all this, it is geographically larger...
Maadi is counted amongst Cairo's first class neighborhoods and is of course on Cairo's...
www.generalservicesonline.com /neimaadi.asp   (132 words)

  
  Maadi: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Maadi is named after an ancient town that once stood on much the same site as today's Maadi, EHandler: no quick summary.
Maadi is the least densely populated neighbourhood in Greater Cairo, EHandler: no quick summary.
Services in Maadi are geared to a great extent to serve the town's expatriate population.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/maadi.htm   (1863 words)

  
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Maadi - Salvage excavation in the suburb of Cairo
The aim of the investigations is to examine the archaeological remains of an area under the threat of modern construction which is situated to the west of formerly excavated parts of the settlement.
The settlement of Maadi (as well as two cemeteries nearby) was excavated on a large scale by the University of Cairo from 1930 until 1953.
www.dainst.org /index_63_en.html   (1033 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Maadi had a commercial strip situated on road 9 parallel to one of the railway tracks, no stores were to be opened anywhere else except on the west side of that particular street.
Maadi as always is considered as one of Egypt's high-class neighborhoods and the citizens of Maadi are rated somewhere between upper middle class all the way to the cream of the crop.
Another thing that characterizes Maadi is the number of foreign citizenry residing within its parts attracted not only by the place and its dominating greenery and organization close to atmospheres of their own countries but by the services Maadi provides resembled in the CAC and the church communities.
www.maadionline.com /Html/maadihistroy.htm   (1233 words)

  
 Putting God at the Center
Maadi became a member of the engineers union in 1984, then its deputy secretary general, an experience he credits with maturing his politics.
In the meantime, Maadi was jailed for five months for subversion (eventually found not guilty), applied for a newspaper license (still pending after eight years) and sought approval (granted in 2000, to Maadi's surprise) for a civic group called Egypt: For Culture and Dialogue.
In retrospect, the biggest contribution of Maadi and his ideas so far may be their impact today on the powerful Muslim Brotherhood, which keenly follows the successes and failures of other Islamic parties in Turkey, Morocco, Yemen and Jordan.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080701000_pf.html   (2003 words)

  
 Old Predynastic Maadi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The archaeological site of Maadi, for which a modern suburb of Cairo is named, is located on an east-west oriented desert ridge between two wadis at the southern city limits of Cairo.
Maadi is not only the name of an ancient Egyptian settlement, but is also used to define a specific culture of the 4th millennium BC, though by the middle of that period it had already been abandoned.
Maadi, as well as two nearby necropolises, were extensively excavated by M. Amer and I. Rizkana in cooperation with the Department of Geography of the University of Cairo between 1930 and 1953.
touregypt.net /featurestories/maadi.htm   (2410 words)

  
 Maadi Culture
The Maadi culture is named after the settlement Maadi near Cairo.
Maadi and the nearby cemetery were excavated 1930 to 1953 by Mustafa Amer, Oswald Menghin and Ibrahim Rizkana on behalf of Cairo University.
The Maadi culture seems to have its origins in the other cultures of Lower Egypt (Fayum Neolithic, Merimde Beni-salame, el-Omari).
www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /neolithic/maadi.html   (225 words)

  
 Algolith: AlgoSuite MAADI
MAADI algorithm uses adaptive edge interpolation, direction-based motion estimation techniques and anti-aliasing correction to nearly perfect progressive scanned images from interlaced video, allowing you to mix field-based video sequences with progressive image sequences such as film, progressive HDTV and CG.
As one can observes from the previous pictures, MAADI is superior in dealing with lines that are hard to de-interlace, near horizontal angle.
The MAADI algorithm is composed of four primary modules which implement the basic functionality of a Motion Adaptive Anti-Aliasing De-Interlacer.
www.algolith.com /index.php?id=algosuite_maadi&L=0   (369 words)

  
 Aussies In Maadi (Meadi) Camp, Egypt 1914-19
Maadi's Brits' did not waste time in communicating their strong reservations to the commanding officers.
In a news item reported in the EgyptianGazette, sentries were posted on both sides of the railway lines their eyes keen to discover any loiterer round the mountains of fodder, the rows of field equipment, the mounds of baggage, of food etc. all of which awaited removal to the nearby camp.
The ground is for the use of the residents of Maadi and not for military purposes; It has been brought to notice that men are in the habit of digging in search of antiquities.
www.diggerhistory.info /pages-conflicts-periods/ww1/maadi.htm   (2818 words)

  
 Maadi British International School - International Schools in Egypt Egypt Schools
Maadi British School, the forerunner of Maadi British International School, was established in 1987.
Maadi British International School is accredited by the Worldwide Education Service and has membership of the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS).
It is the school's aim to see that pupils are prepared for their future education in both the private and public sectors, in the UK and overseas.
www.english-schools.org /egypt/maadi-british-international-school.htm   (245 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Focus | Merchants of Maadi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Giza pyramids required a massive labour force, directed by the (rather grandly-named) "Overseer of All the Works of the King"; the ruins of the Maadi settlement, believed to have been a merchant town, show that it was comprised of simple wattle-and-daub huts and semi-subterranean houses.
Situated in the desert west of Maadi, with no discernible road leading up to it, the museum (ostensibly open to the public) is "not really a museum," late Egyptologist Abdel-Moneim Abu Bakr told me, when we visited the site in the 1960s.
The Maadi site was first excavated in 1918 and the results became public in a report to the International Congress of Geography in 1925.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2000/508/fo2.htm   (1278 words)

  
 NTM News: Maadi's victory
There was silence for a moment, then the sous prefe rose and began to clap; soon most of the others joined him in a standing ovation for Maadi's effort.
Others gave their demonstrations and wrote lengthy phrases, yet all realized that Maadi's accomplishment was the greatest.
Maadi continued to read scripture in the village square most days until his recent death.
www.ntm.org /news/news_details.php?news_id=830&page=tribal   (289 words)

  
 Maadi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
It was named Maadi and had apparently been occupied from 3600 BC to 3000 BC.
Unlike many of the grave sites in Egypt, the Maadi culture had very simple burials.  These types of burials have distinguished the Lower societies from the Upper societies in Egypt.  generally, the grave sites are located south of the settlement about 1 km.
The Maadi settlement was a stepping stone that allowed other cultures to flourish.  The site was well preserved and a wonderful find in the archaeological world.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/archaeology/sites/africa/maadi.html   (332 words)

  
 AUC | Faculty Services | Neighborhoods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Though new high-rises line the Corniche, a major thoroughfare along the Nile River, and the outskirts of town, most of Maadi consists of low- and medium-rise apartment buildings surrounded, in the residential areas, by shade trees and gardens, where something seems to be in bloom in every season.
Although most of the air in Cairo is polluted, many residents in Maadi feel that the air seems cleaner there despite the fact that there are cement factories approximately 12 kilometers south of Maadi.
Maadi is relatively quiet compared to the other parts of Cairo, and the streets are fine for walking.
www.aucegypt.edu /facstaff/facservices/neighborhoods.html   (890 words)

  
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Barrel diameters were the same for all Maadi reguardless of the model or length.
The model MISR-90 was a Maadi receiver that had all other parts from a Chinese MAK-90 added to make a complete rifle.
The Chinese AK rifles have a smaller diameter barrel shank that is pressed into the barrel trunion in the receiver than the Russian/Euro pattern rifles of which a Maadi is. A sleeve was needed to attaced the Chinese barrel to the Maadi receiver.
mywebpages.comcast.net /jfreeman246/page-4.htm   (650 words)

  
 e-dar.com | Egypt's Real Estate Directory | Maadi
Maadi is counted amongst Cairo's first class neighborhoods and is of course
New Maadi is a modern imitation of old Maadi but still not an identical twin, the younger sister carries the same scent but for some reason the essence of the peace, quiet and significance found in old Maadi hasn't reached its full effect.
I can confidently say that out of my own experience it's not such a hassle and living in Maadi is absolutely worth it, Maadi will always maintain its position in the hearts and minds of Egyptians and foreigners alike.
www.e-dar.com /html/MaadiRenting.html   (368 words)

  
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Maadi ist neben Buto der namensgebende Fundort für die unterägyptische Kultur des 4.
Die Siedlung von Maadi (und zwei nahegelegene Friedhöfe) wurden in den Jahren 1930-1953 von der Universität Kairo durch M. Amer und I. Rizkana großflächig ausgegraben, in den ersten Jahren (1930-33) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem DAI (O. Menghin, K. Bittel).
Ersteres Gebäude findet in Ägypten keine Parallele, dem zweiten ähnliche Bauten, allerdings kleiner und weniger sorgfältig ausgeführt, sind bereits aus den alten Grabungen in Maadi bekannt und wurden mit Vorbildern aus der chalkolithischen Beersheva-Kultur Südpalästinas in Verbindung gebracht.
www.dainst.org /index.php?id=63   (766 words)

  
 Maadi British International School
Maadi British International School was established in 1995.
In 1995, the school was registered with the Egyptian Ministry of Social Affairs as a non-profit entity with a charter "to educate foreign children in Egypt".
The Maadi British International School is a well established Nursery and Primary School with approximately 290 pupils from ages 2 to 11 years on roll.
www.mbisegypt.com /docs/The_School.htm   (1097 words)

  
 MAADI MISR Egyptian AK-47 clones - TheFiringLine Forums
Other Maadis that are out there that you may want to stay away from are the MISR-10 which is a single stack 10-round magazine only rifle and the MISR-90 which was a Chinese parts kit installed on a Maadi receiver.
One advantage to the Maadi is that it is built on Soviet machinery and manufactured by people trained by the Soviets.
The Maadi is about the closest example of the Russian AKM as us westerners will get (especially the collectable preban Steyer Maadi).
www.thefiringline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=98145   (670 words)

  
 Aluminum Pedestrian Bridge
MAADI recently participated in the design and manufacturing processes of hundreds of aluminum structures such as
MAADI works with several aluminum fabricators and is able to offer complete solutions.
As a small independent firm, we are able to provide efficient and timely innovative solutions at a reasonable cost.
www.maadigroup.com   (267 words)

  
 About Maadi Children's Study Centre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Purpose Statement : Maadi Children's Study Centre provides affordable education primarily for children of expatriate development workers and other expatriate families in Cairo, through a rich and challenging internationally recognized curriculum.
Maadi Children's Study Centre educates the ‘whole child' to think independently, become life long learners, respect others and integrate a Christian world view into their lives.
In addition to the core curriculum we offer a range of extra curricular activities which have included Jazz Dance, portrait painting, music appreciation and composition, still-life drawing, drama, recreational sports clubs, backgammon and chess.
www.mceducation.org /about.htm   (456 words)

  
 Leading Expatriate Pastor David Petrescue Killed | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction
David Petrescue, 53, the senior pastor of Maadi Community Church (MCC) in Cairo, Egypt, was alone after 3:30 p.m.
His unexpected death has dealt a tremendous blow to Maadi Community Church, which he helped grow from around 150 people in 1992 to a congregation of 1,500 today.
Maadi Community Church is involved in church planting, leadership training, and ministries to Sudanese refugees.
www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2006/septemberweb-only/septemberweb-only/136-32.0.html   (810 words)

  
 NZSSRA: 2006 Maadi Cup regatta
Maadi DVDs and Videos: Positive Pictures produces DVDs of the finals days (2 discs per day) special compilations can be arranged on application.
It's perfect for those parents and supporters who would love to be here at the Lake but haven't been able to make it.
Other media enquires should be directed to our 2006 AON Maadi Media Liaison Officer, John Wylie.
www.schoolrowing.org.nz /maadi.php?year=2006   (1305 words)

  
 Restaurants in Maadi Cairo Egypt Restaurant Reviews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Even in the upscale districts of Maadi, Mohandiseen and Heliopolis, the construction and...
The Alexandrian complex is almost a replica of Cairo?s CityCenter in Maadi and, though more spacious, it is just as crowded.
mound of land sitting in the middle of the Nile opposite the Maadi Military Hospital.
www.diningguide411.com /restaurants/Egypt/Cairo/Maadi   (487 words)

  
 The Church of St. John the Baptist, Maadi
Since 1931, the Church of St. John the Baptist has served the community of Maadi in southern Cairo, Egypt, as a place for worship and solace.
The church is one of the oldest buildings in Maadi, and our international congregation welcomes Christians from all denominations.
Located in Maadi, a suburb of Cairo, at the corner of Port Said Street and Road 17
www.maadichurchstjohn.org   (230 words)

  
 NZSSRA: 2007 Maadi Cup regatta
Coaches and rowers are reminded there is an absolute prohibition against carrying such equipment during a race (whether or not it is used) and the penalty is mandatory disqualification of the SCHOOL (rule 4.8).
Because there were rumours of cell phone usage during Maadi 2006 the organisers are going to be especially vigilant in enforcing rule 4.8 during the 2007 Aon Maadi Cup Regatta.
Every year at Maadi we endeavour to hold a number of exhibition races; the most popular of these being the coxswains' race.
www.schoolrowing.org.nz /maadi.php   (2304 words)

  
 Maadi Community Church - your church home away from home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
At Maadi Community Church we have been truly blessed, not only with the number of members of the church who are actively involved in our ministries, but also by how many people - individuals and families - that we are able to reach out to and help through the our dynamic and active ministries.
“Embrace The Needy”, or ETN as it is also known, is a benevolent ministry of Maadi Community Church who's purpose is to provide adequate life support to needy members and, in some cases, to “non-members” in need.
HOW TO FIND US: we are co-located with the church of St John the Baptist at the corner of Port Said Road and Road 17, near the junction of Road 82.
www.maadichurch.net /MCCministries.htm   (904 words)

  
 Sofitel Cairo Maadi Towers, Cairo - Africa Stay.com
Sofitel Cairo Maadi Towers, Cairo - Africa Stay.com
Rising Above the Nile With a Panoramic View of the Pyramids, This Hotel is 12 Km Away from Cairo City, 30 Min from the Cairo International Conference Centre -Cicc- And 45 Min from the Airport.
Sofitel Cairo Maadi Towers - Cairo Accommodation & Tours
www.africastay.com /sofitel-cairo-maadi-towers.html   (202 words)

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