Cairo Tower Lights up with Qatar's Flag Colors to Celebrate Its National Day

On Saturday, the Cairo Tower lit up in the colors of the Qatari flag to celebrate the Gulf country's National Day, the Qatari embassy in Cairo announced on social media.

Images circulated on social media showed the Cairo Tower displaying the Qatari flag and emblazoned with an illumination reading in Arabic: “The National Day of the State of Qatar”.

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Qatar celebrates its National Day to commemorate the founding of the State of Qatar by Sheikh Jassim Bin Mohammed Bin Thani on December 18, 1878.

In August, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah El Sisi and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad met in Iraq on the sidelines of a regional conference and agreed to promote ties between their countries.

In July, Emir Tamim appointed an ambassador to Egypt, a month after Al Sissi named an envoy to Doha as part of an agreement to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries.

In June, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry visited Qatar, the first visit by such a senior Egyptian official to Doha since the two countries restored diplomatic ties earlier this year.

In January, Egypt signed a declaration at a Gulf summit held in the Saudi city of AlUla ending a dispute between Qatar and a Saudi-led bloc including Cairo.