Editing Sharm El Sheikh (section)

==Name==

The English name of Sharm El Sheikh is a borrowing of the [[Egyptian Arabic]] "شرم الشيخ", ''šarm aš-šayḵ'' and, as such, does not have a fixed [[romanisation]]. There are documented uses of alternate spellings such as Sharm el Sheikh and Sharm el-Sheikh, sometimes within the same news article.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63781303 |title=COP27: What was agreed at the Sharm el Sheikh climate conference? |last=Stallard |first=Esme |work=BBC News |date=2022-12-08 |access-date=2024-07-18}}</ref>

Sharm El Sheikh is sometimes referred to as the "City of Peace" (Egyptian Arabic: "''Madinet el-Salam''"), referring to the large number of [[Conference|International Peace Conferences]] that have been held there.<ref name="City of Peace">{{cite news |last1=Al-Mukhtar |first1=Rima |title=Sharm El-Sheikh, city of peace |url=http://www.arabnews.com/travel/sharm-el-sheikh-city-peace |access-date=23 May 2018 |work=Arab News |date=23 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190426061414/http://www.arabnews.com/travel/sharm-el-sheikh-city-peace |archive-date=26 April 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Amongst Egyptians and also many visitors, the name of the city is commonly shortened to "Sharm" ({{IPA|arz|ʃɑɾm|lang}}), which is its common name in [[Egyptian Arabic]].