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Events in the year2017 inEgypt.

• President:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi
• Prime Minister:Sherif Ismail

• 9 April – ThePalm Sunday church bombings, twin suicide bombings that took place at St. George’s Church inTanta, andSaint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral inAlexandria, killed at least 45 people and injured more than 100.^[1]
• 26 April - Live bullets were fired on protestors during the2016–17 Egyptian protests who were protesting the selling ofTiran andSanafir to Saudi Arabia.^[2]
• 26 May – Egyptian military launch airstrikes against Libyan targets due to terrorist attack which killed 26 Coptic Christians.
• 11 August –Alexandria train collision.

• 1-9 July – the2017 FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup was held inCairo
• 18-25 August – the2017 FIVB Volleyball Men's U23 World Championship,volleyball event hosted by Egypt

• 6 January –Awad Moukhtar Halloudah, swimmer (born 1931)
• 12 January –Karima Mokhtar, actress (born 1934)^[3]
• 1 April –Talaat al-Shayeb, author (born 1942)
• 4 April –Samir Farid, writer and film critic (born 1943)
• 15 June –Ibrahim Abouleish, pharmacologist (born 1937)
• 7 July –Ahmed Mansi, SEAL military commander (born 1978)

• List of Egyptian films of 2017

• 2017 in Egypt
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• Years of the 21st century in Egypt
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