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El Sakkakini is a small district in Cairo, Egypt that neighbours the El Zaher and Abbaseya districts.El Sakkakini was originally part of El Zaher, but it was named after a wealthy, famous, family of Syrian origin, whose patriarch, Count Gabriel Habib Sakkakini Pasha had built a palace and a church in the area in 1897. In addition, Sakkakini Pasha, is known to have established the Roman Catholic Patriarchate in Faggala and the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Old Cairo.Famous residents The Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was raised in Sakkikini in the 1930s. The composer Halim El-Dabh was born in Sakkakini in 1921.