ancient nearby sites of Sais, Naucratis, and Buto, such as pottery and statues. El Mahallah is a large industrial town near Tanta, famous for its textiles. Climate As all of Egypt, has a hot desert climate (BWh), according to Köppen-Geiger climate classification system. Notable people Magda al-Sabahi or Magda Sabbahi = Magda (1931-2020) actress Huda Sultan (1925-2006) singer and actress Kamal Amin (1923–1979), artist Mahmoud Zulfikar (1914-1970), Film director Khairy Beshara, film director Abdu al-Hamuli (‎) (1836–1901), singer Mahmoud Khalil Al-Hussary, (1917–1980) reciter of the Qur'an Mohamed Fawzi (1918–1966), composer, singer, and actor Naima Akef (1929–1966), actress and circus player Doria Shafik (1908–1975), leader of the Women's Liberation Movement in the early 1950s Ahmed Hijazi (1936–2011), known as "Hegazy", a caricature artist Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), thinker and liberal theologian Ahmed Khaled Tawfik (1962–2018), author Amina Rizk (1910–2003), actress El-Sayed Nosseir (1905–1977), Olympic Gold medal winner in weightlifting Hilana Sedarous first female Egyptian doctor and first female Egyptian gynaecologist Maximos V Hakim, Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Nabil Farouk, novelist See also List of cities and towns in Egypt Nile Delta Egyptian festivals References External links Egypt: Handbook for Travellers : Part First, Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai by Karl Baedeker (1885) Families as We are: Conversations from Around the World by Perdita Huston, 2001 The Encyclopædia Britannica: a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information by Hugh Chisholm, 1910 The Coptic Diocese of Tanta Governorate capitals in Egypt Populated places in Gharbia Governorate Nile Delta Cities in Egypt Religious festivals in Egypt