Egypt
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- Tourism: New Resort Planned For Al Alamein
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- The Luxor Museum And The Proposed Egyptian Copyright Law
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- More Re Objections To Cairo Financial Centre
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- Introducing Children To The Ancient Egyptians
http://www.strategiy.com/retailnew.asp?id=20060808131918A rather nice idea by a shopping mall in Dubai, to encourage children to become familiar with ancient Egypt: "Reef Mall is celebrating Knowledge Surprises this Week. Organised by Dubai Land Department...
Egypt
Another pyramid-shaped hotel
http://www.itp.net/business/features/details.php?id=3410&category=
First there was the Luxor in Vegas - now we are to have the Raffles Hotel in Dubai, designed in the form of a pyramid to compliment the Egyptian-themed Wafi City Mall: "Back in the early 1990s a pyramid-shaped hotel was planned to complement Wafi City’s Egyptian-themed mall. Work began on the piling for the structure but was stopped due to the outbreak of the first Gulf War. But 15 years later, construction work has recommenced on the Wafi site, in the form of Dubai’s first Raffles hotel . . . . Such is the attention to detail that the project even has its own Egyptologist on board — Dr Mahmoud Mabrook, a senior member of the archaeological museum in Cairo. He is being consulted on the hieroglyphics on the project, which all have an authentic meaning".
See the ITP business website, above, for the full story.
To see what the hotel will look like see the following URL (you will need Flash 6.0 installed, and be warned - there is music).
http://216.25.85.145/waficity/
- Architect Treads Softly In Shadows Of History
Rocky Mountain News For an architect, it's tough enough designing a huge facility covering 15 acres and housing a cavernous underground garage, a posh hotel and hundreds of thousands of square feet of office and retail space. But to map out a $730...
- Tourism: New Resort Planned For Al Alamein
Bloomberg Egyptian billionaire Ibrahim Kamel plans to build a $500 million seaside resort near the World War II battlefield of Al-Alamein that will compete with Red Sea vacation sites in Egypt. Kamel's Kato Group will construct 4,000 hotel...
- The Luxor Museum And The Proposed Egyptian Copyright Law
Las Vegas Sun According to Bill Paulos, a former vice president of the Luxor, the original Luxor team met with Egyptian officials when they designed and built the resort. Hawass, in fact, is credited in old Luxor publicity statements as having been a...
- More Re Objections To Cairo Financial Centre
Gulf Daily News A couple of days ago I posted about complaints from Zahi Hawass which caused a halt in ongoing construction work of the Cairo Financial and Touris Centre, a new complex which is located near the important heritage site the Cairo Citadel....
- Introducing Children To The Ancient Egyptians
http://www.strategiy.com/retailnew.asp?id=20060808131918A rather nice idea by a shopping mall in Dubai, to encourage children to become familiar with ancient Egypt: "Reef Mall is celebrating Knowledge Surprises this Week. Organised by Dubai Land Department...