The document summarizes traditional clothing worn in Egypt. Farmers typically wore gallibayas, while upper classes in cities adopted Ottoman and later European styles. To the south, Nubians and across the desert Bedouins had their own distinctive clothing. For women, peasants wore gallibayas outdoors but in cities only indoors, instead wearing a wide dress called a tob sebleh with trousers underneath. A woman's kaftan was called a yelek, lined with an open neck and buttoned sides. Women also wore a shirt under the yelek and a djubbeh or binnish over it.

4. • What is the capital of Egypt?
• Located in the continent
of Africa, Egypt covers 995,450 square
kilometers of land and 6,000 square
kilometers of water, making it the 30th
largest nation in the world with a total area of
1,001,450 square kilometers.
• Egypt became an independent state in 1831,
after gaining its sovereignty from Turkey. The
population of Egypt is 83,688,164 (2012) and
the nation has a density of 84 people per
square kilometer.
• The currency of Egypt is the Egyptian Pound
(EGP). As well, the people of Egypt are
refered to as Egyptian.

8. Egyptian Traditional Clothing
Egypt had a range of traditional costumes. The farmers
(fellahin) basically wear gallibayas. In the cities the upper
classes adopted the clothes of their conquerors - Ottoman
Turks from 1500s, and later European from 1798. To the
south the Nubians have their own distinctive costume and
across the desert the Bedouin also have a separate style
of clothing.
Man in gallibaya

9. Egypt - Women
Fruitseller
(c1980)Peasant women would wear a gallebaya outdoors but in the city
gallibaya tended to be worn only indoors. For public wear a woman
would wear a wide woman's dress called a tob sebleh.
Wide trousers were worn as underclothing (tshalvar or shintijan)
gathered below knee and falling to ankles.
The woman's kaftan was called a yelek. This was lined, with the neck
open to breast and buttoned or laced along side seams for shaping. It
had high side slit over trousers. Girded with shawl. Women would wear
a shirt under the yelek, and a djubbeh or binnish over it.

10. Ibn Wahshiyya's translation of the
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
alphabet

11. Akhenaten
Akhenaten
Anwar Sadat
Cleopatra
Gamal Abdel
Nasser Hassan
Hatshepsut

13. Egyptian Music
• Music was as important to the ancient
Egyptians as it is in our modern society.
Although it is thought that music played a role
throughout the history of Egypt, those that
study the Egyptian writings have discovered
that music seemed to become more important
in what is called the ‘pharaonic’ period of their
history. This was the time when the Egyptian
dynasties of the pharaohs were established
(around 3100 BCE) and music was found in
many parts of every day Egyptian life.

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Prepared by:
Rachelle Ann N. Mendenilla
Myka Aira D. Ayleon