In early August, for example, two SIIC governors in Qadhisiyah and Muthanna (the latter a British controlled governorate until July 2006) were killed by roadside bombs within ten days of each other, with the Mehdi Army widely blamed for their deaths.
It declares the latest position of the Wafd party which includes demands such as the trial of fraudsters and the opening of governorate headquarters to protect citizens.Another well-respected independent daily, El Shorouk, opens with the headline: "The people advance as Mubarak starts his retreat" before reporting sources that say that Mr Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa, have left for London.
Voters in the capital, Cairo, by far the richest and most populous governorate, actually turned it down, as did Egyptians resident in the West.In this section The fire is getting closer A dubious yes A tortuous triangle Return of a prodigal son ReprintsNor does the trend favour the Islamists.
The governorate of Fayoum is home to more than two million people, mostly farmers, a big majority of whom last year voted for Muhammed Morsi, the Muslim Brother and former president who was deposed in an army-led coup on July 3rd.
They are likely to have done so in the almost entirely Sunni Arab governorate of Anbar and heavily Sunni Arab Salaheddin.
Home to Bedouin tribes, it lies some 450km (280 miles) south of Muscat, Oman's capital, in the poor and empty Wustah governorate.
Al-Iskandariyyah, muḥāfaẓah (governorate), Lower Egypt.
On Elephantine a museum contains antiquities from the governorate.
Kafr al-Shaykh, also spelled Kafr el-Sheikh, town, capital of Kafr al-Shaykh muḥāfaẓah (governorate) of the central Nile River delta, Lower Egypt, bordering the Mediterranean.
Sunni Muslims account for about three-fourths of Syria's Muslim population and are in the majority everywhere in the country except in the southern Al-Suwaydāʾ muḥāfaẓah (governorate) and the Latakia governorate in the north.
The ʿAlawites (a Shīʿite subsect) are the next largest group, and most live in the Latakia governorate or in the governorates of Homs and Ḥamāh.
