northern suburb of Cairo, in Al-Qalyūbīyah (Qalyūbīyah, Al-) muḥāfaẓah (governorate), on the east bank of the Nile, Lower Egypt. It was formerly a market town supplying Cairo with agricultural produce from the rich, alluvial delta area. In the 1820s Muḥammad ʿAlī, the Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, built the country's first European-type factories and schools in Shūbra al-Khaymah, and it developed as an industrial centre. Industries now include cotton ginning and the production of textiles, industrial specialty glass, and ceramics. Shubrā al-Khaymah is the site of the Cairo Polytechnic Institute (1961), and a teachers' college now occupies the old viceroy's palace. The town is on the Cairo–Alexandria superhighway and lies just west of the southern terminus of the Turʿat al-Ismāʿīlīyah (Ismailia Canal), which links the Suez Canal with the Nile River. Pop. (1996 est.) 871,000.