Egypt
A Walk Along A Mameluke Street
Living in Egypt (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani and Patricia Canfield)
With some absolutely super photographs
A couple of weeks ago a close friend of mine, Patricia Canfield, decided to take one of the walks in Cairo sponsored by ARCE (The American Research Center in Egypt). ARCE offers some amazing tours of Cairo and sites further afield for very reasonable prices. You do have register with ARCE beforehand and to show up on time for the bus as they absolutely depart at the advertised hour, but the tours are some of the best in Egypt. Pat is a freelance writer living here for some twenty odd years and when she showed me the photographs and told me about the places she'd seen, I begged her to write it up for me for my blog. These days my arthritic knees have taken me away from any ideas I have of three hour walks, although knee replacement surgery scheduled for this summer should have me back pounding the pavements, however gingerly, in the fall. Here is her story . . .
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Egyptian Registrars Graduate From Training Initiative
drhawass.com Good news to see that Egyptians are gaining qualifications to take up professions in Egyptology. Today the Egyptian Museum, the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) celebrated the graduation of the...
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News: Arce Wins Big Grant To Help Safeguard Egyptian Antiquity
San Antonio Business Journal (Tamarind Phinissee) Another old news item which I missed, this one dating to the end of August. The American Research Center in Egypt, based in San Antonio, has been awarded a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International...
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Travel: Observing The Pilgrims
Living in Egypt blog (Maryanne Stroud Gabbani) I look at Maryanne Stroud Gabbani's blogs most days because they offer a great insight into her life in the rural outskirts of Cairo and Giza. Today she describes taking some visitors to the Giza plateau...
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News About The Journal Of The American Research Center In Egypt
ARCE Thanks to Eugene Cruz-Uribe for the news that he has taken over as Editor of the JARCE. He took over this position late this summer from Charles Van Siclen who has been acting editor for his efforts. The current status of the journal is as follows:...
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American Research
This is the latest newsletter of the American research center in Egypt. http://www.arce.org/...
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