If you look at a big metabolic chart, like a detailed road map, youâll see that PFK is the first âcommittedâ enzyme for glycolysis. It is tempting to think that hexokinase/glucokinase should be the one, but the product, Glucose 6-phosphate has man...
The first settlement in the region of present-day Cairo was al-Fustat, founded in A. D. 641 as a military encampment by the Arabic commander 'Amr ibn al-'As. Under the dynasties that ruled Egypt over the following centuries, the town grew into a major port city. In A. D. 969 Jawhar, the leader of an Islamic sect called the Fatimids, founded a new city near al-Fustat, initially naming it al-Mansuriyah (its name was later changed to al-Qahirah, or Cairo). When the Fatimids became the rulers of Egypt, founding a dynasty that lasted for two centuries, Cairo became their capital. When Saladin, a Sunni Muslim, defeated the Crusaders and founded the Ayyubid dynasty in the twelfth century, he retained Cairo as his capital, and it became the center of a vast empire.
Cairo (/ËkaÉªroÊ/ KYE-roh; Arabic: Ø§ÙÙØ§ÙØ±Ø© â; Coptic: â²â²Ï©â²â²£â²) is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle-East and second-largest in Africa after Lagos. Its metropolitan area is the 15th largest in the world.Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in 969 CE. Nicknamed the city of a thousand minarets  for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a center of the region's political and cultural life.he Egyptian name for Cairo is said to be: Khere-Ohe, meaning: The Place of Combat, supposedly, in reference to a battle which took place between the Gods Seth and Horus. Sometimes the city is informally also referred to as ÙØ§ÙØ±Ù Kayro [ËkaejÉ¾o] . ËkÃ¦jÉ¾o