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- Kaaba Kiswa To Be Handed Over To Egypt's Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Three months after the theft of two pieces of a 19th-century embroidered Al-Kaaba Kiswa (the Kaaba cover) from the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfik in Cairo's eastern cemetery, the Ministry of Religious...
- New Book: Westcar On The Nile
Reichert Verlag On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a revolution...
- Paintings Retrieved
Egypt Daily Star News Nine antique paintings that were stolen earlier this month were retrieved by police officials after they were tipped off by an “anonymous” phone call, an official statement released by the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday....
- Lured To The House Of Taz
Egytpian Gazette (Nayrouz Talaat) The story on this URL will expire shortly, so it has been reproduced in full here. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture is saving the treasures of Islamic Cairo, one of the most popular of them being the Mameluke Amir Taz...
- Farouq Hosni Visits Textile Museum
http://tinyurl.com/c7whf (State Information Service)"Culture Minister Farouq Hosni has visited Mohamed Ali Sabeel (a public fountain) in Nahasseen district in Cairo after the Supreme Council of Antiquities has turned it into a textile museum within the...
Egypt
Mohamed Ali Palace in Greece reopened
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Egypt and Greece are to celebrate on October 23-24 the reopening of Mohamed Ali Pasha ruler of Egypt's palace in the Greek city of Kavala after it has been restored and renewed and turned into a Hotel and tourist attraction.
This Hotel is owned by Egypt's Awkaf Ministry. Eng. Mohamed Abdul-Raouf, boardchairman of Awkaf department said the Greek government wanted to buy this palace of Mohamed Ali Pasha but the Egyptian side rejected in order to keep a symbol of one of the most flourishing ages in Egypt.
- Kaaba Kiswa To Be Handed Over To Egypt's Antiquities Ministry
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) With photos. Three months after the theft of two pieces of a 19th-century embroidered Al-Kaaba Kiswa (the Kaaba cover) from the mausoleum of Khedive Tawfik in Cairo's eastern cemetery, the Ministry of Religious...
- New Book: Westcar On The Nile
Reichert Verlag On November 6, 1823, four Englishmen disembarked in the harbour of Alexandria. In the succeeding ten months, they traveled up the Nile as far as the Second Cataract and, in the course of their travels, witnessed the turmoils of a revolution...
- Paintings Retrieved
Egypt Daily Star News Nine antique paintings that were stolen earlier this month were retrieved by police officials after they were tipped off by an “anonymous” phone call, an official statement released by the Ministry of Culture said on Thursday....
- Lured To The House Of Taz
Egytpian Gazette (Nayrouz Talaat) The story on this URL will expire shortly, so it has been reproduced in full here. The Egyptian Ministry of Culture is saving the treasures of Islamic Cairo, one of the most popular of them being the Mameluke Amir Taz...
- Farouq Hosni Visits Textile Museum
http://tinyurl.com/c7whf (State Information Service)"Culture Minister Farouq Hosni has visited Mohamed Ali Sabeel (a public fountain) in Nahasseen district in Cairo after the Supreme Council of Antiquities has turned it into a textile museum within the...