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Zagazig

الزقازيق

City (Wikidata Q140304).

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Egypt & Nile
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Birthplace of
Farouk El-Baz
Home of
Mohamed Shaheen El-Taeb

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Farouk El-Baz· Mohamed Shaheen El-Taeb

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islam.museum contributors. “Zagazig”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/zagazig/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Farouk El-Baz

Egyptian-American geologist and space scientist, born in Zagazig in 1938, who worked with NASA on the scientific exploration of the Moon in the Apollo programme (1967–1972), selecting landing sites and training astronauts, then founded and directed Boston University's Center for Remote Sensing and became known for desert and groundwater research from satellite images.