Egypt
Egypt Today
Business Times (Tamer Hafez)
This is an extract from an article about the state of the Egyptian Stock Exchange.
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
For reasons unknown, the only photos of Egypt that I have stored on my laptop are of the Gilf Kebir, so it was a choice of giving you more photos of north Wales, a rather nice collection from Italy, or photos of the Western Desert! So the Gilf it is....
- Long Range Desert Group
Egypt Daily Star News (Peter A. Carrigan) More slightly off-topic themes - this time it's the Pharaohs' Rally, but the author has made mention of the Long Range Desert Group who are certainly an important and intriguing part of Egypt's modern...
- Gilf Kebir Hostages Freed
BBC News A group of Western tourists and their Egyptian guides, who were kidnapped 10 days ago, have been freed. The 11 hostages - five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian - and their guides are said to be in good health. The group, abducted by gunmen...
- Egypt Kidnappings Not Stopping Tourists
Times Online The adventure-tour operator Explore will decide in the next few days whether to go ahead with trips to the remote western desert of Egypt, where 11 tourists were kidnapped on September 19. The company’s next tour, which is due to depart...
- Touts Threat To Tourism In Egypt
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=19161"Pushy bazaar merchants and poor waiter service are a bigger threat to Egypt's tourism industry than the bombs of militants, Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah said in an interview. Garranah...
Egypt
Follow-up re kidnappings near Gilf Kebir
Egypt TodayThis story also covers the news that the Grand Hyatt had decided not to sell alcohol for religious reasons, and looks briefly at the "makeover" of the Giza plateau.In September, a masked gang kidnapped eight Egyptians, five Germans, five Italians and one Romanian from Gilf Kebir near the Egypt-Sudan border, asking for a rumored $6 million (LE 33.2 million) ransom. Ten days later, after Sudan reported it had killed six kidnappers and captured two more, the hostages were freed. Official government accounts claimed that Egyptian Army Special Forces freed the hostages by killing half the kidnappers, while the other half escaped. Once back in Egypt, however, the hostages said that they were released in the desert by the kidnappers and that no military action took place. Egyptian Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah denied that any ransom had been paid.
Business Times (Tamer Hafez)
This is an extract from an article about the state of the Egyptian Stock Exchange.
The tourism industry is still shaken at the mid-September kidnapping of 11 tourists and eight Egyptians. Taken by unknown assailants from Gilf Kebir in the Western Desert, the group was apparently moved first across the border into Sudan and at press time was reported to be in Libya. While the sector, worth $8.2 billion (LE 44.7 billion) in FY2006/07 according to the General Authority of Investment and Free Zones, has steadily grown despite a spate of bombings in Sinai, the kidnapping has recalled fears of 1997’s Luxor killings and the subsequent tourism drought.
- Daily Photo - Gilf Kebir
For reasons unknown, the only photos of Egypt that I have stored on my laptop are of the Gilf Kebir, so it was a choice of giving you more photos of north Wales, a rather nice collection from Italy, or photos of the Western Desert! So the Gilf it is....
- Long Range Desert Group
Egypt Daily Star News (Peter A. Carrigan) More slightly off-topic themes - this time it's the Pharaohs' Rally, but the author has made mention of the Long Range Desert Group who are certainly an important and intriguing part of Egypt's modern...
- Gilf Kebir Hostages Freed
BBC News A group of Western tourists and their Egyptian guides, who were kidnapped 10 days ago, have been freed. The 11 hostages - five Italians, five Germans and a Romanian - and their guides are said to be in good health. The group, abducted by gunmen...
- Egypt Kidnappings Not Stopping Tourists
Times Online The adventure-tour operator Explore will decide in the next few days whether to go ahead with trips to the remote western desert of Egypt, where 11 tourists were kidnapped on September 19. The company’s next tour, which is due to depart...
- Touts Threat To Tourism In Egypt
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=19161"Pushy bazaar merchants and poor waiter service are a bigger threat to Egypt's tourism industry than the bombs of militants, Tourism Minister Zoheir Garranah said in an interview. Garranah...