Dar El Salam

Dar el-Salam is a small Upper Egyptian city near Akhmim. It is located on the east bank of the Nile, in the Sohag Governorate.
The city used to be two separate villages – Naga el Daba and El Galaila.

About

The city of Dar el-Salam had a population of 39,500 in 2001.
In a 2008 report produced by the local authorities of Dar el-Salam, the city had an overall illiteracy rate of 35% amongst males and 48% amongst females was identified, putting the overall illiteracy rate at 41.5% of the total population.
In 2011, Dar el-Salam was identified by the United Nations Development Programme's Egypt Human Development Report as one of Egypt's five poorest districts on the Human Development Index for the second year in a row.

Sectarianism

In 2000, sectarian clashes occurred in the Dar El Salam region in the village Kosheh between Coptic Christians and Muslims resulting in the deaths of 22 Copts and 1 Muslim.
In 2003 in the town of Beit Alim, a vendetta feud between two families left 22 members of one family dead, including a nine-year-old child.