Shibin El Kom (Arabic: شبين الكوم pronounced [ʃɪˈbiːn elˈkoːm], colloquially shortened to Shibin) is a city in Egypt's Nile Delta, and the capital of the Monufia Governorate. It was previously known as Shaybin al-Sara (Arabic: شيبين السرى) the first part of which Ramzi connects to Arabic: أشيب ʾašyab "grey-coloured, old".