Egypt
- In The Shadow Of The Mamluks
Al Ahram Weekly (Sherif Sonbol) Like many of the rulers who have ruled Egypt since antiquity, the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (1279-1290) destroyed the constructions of his predecessors in order to raise buildings that reflected his own rule on their foundations....
- 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....
- Tourism: Internet For Tourism Sector
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ Speaking as a not infrequent visitor to Egypt, this initiative is very welcome:"As part of the USAID project While in Egypt Stay Connected and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Hotel...
- Museum Update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6763 The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt. New museum in Hurghada "Hurghada will soon be home to a the first...
- New Hotels In Giza And Elsewhere
http://www.businesstodayegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6213"Five-year-old Italian hotel chain Domina has filed plans with the Ministry of Tourism to build six new hotels at locations across Egypt. The plans include new resorts on the Red Sea at Taba,...
Egypt
Palace hotels
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7213
Fourth article on the page: "While archeologists and hist-orians continue to warn of the dangers to the historic Citadel district posed by an in-progress office complex being constructed by Alkan Group, rumor has it the Ministry of Culture is planning to invite the private sector to invest in restoring historic Cairo.
Major hotel chains are reportedly being allowed to turn some of the monuments into hotels. Word on the street holds that the first building to be considered is going to be Wekalet Qaitbay next to Bab El-Nasr.
The Wekala was built in 885 by the Mamluk King Al-Ashraf Abul Nasr Qaitbay as a place for traveling merchants to sleep and peddle their wares. It displays all the beautiful characteristics of the Mamluk era’s intricate architecture.
This sounds a bit like the Bab El-Azab project a few years back, when the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni declared that his ministry was going to turn the historic building into a hotel. The project sparked a media furor and the Ministry promptly dropped the idea."
Major hotel chains are reportedly being allowed to turn some of the monuments into hotels. Word on the street holds that the first building to be considered is going to be Wekalet Qaitbay next to Bab El-Nasr.
The Wekala was built in 885 by the Mamluk King Al-Ashraf Abul Nasr Qaitbay as a place for traveling merchants to sleep and peddle their wares. It displays all the beautiful characteristics of the Mamluk era’s intricate architecture.
This sounds a bit like the Bab El-Azab project a few years back, when the Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni declared that his ministry was going to turn the historic building into a hotel. The project sparked a media furor and the Ministry promptly dropped the idea."
- In The Shadow Of The Mamluks
Al Ahram Weekly (Sherif Sonbol) Like many of the rulers who have ruled Egypt since antiquity, the Mamluk Sultan Qalawun (1279-1290) destroyed the constructions of his predecessors in order to raise buildings that reflected his own rule on their foundations....
- 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....
- Tourism: Internet For Tourism Sector
http://www.algomhuria.net.eg/gazette/1/ Speaking as a not infrequent visitor to Egypt, this initiative is very welcome:"As part of the USAID project While in Egypt Stay Connected and in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Hotel...
- Museum Update
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6763 The Egypt Today website has two short features on their Culture 101 page, above, re the establishment of two new museums in Egypt. New museum in Hurghada "Hurghada will soon be home to a the first...
- New Hotels In Giza And Elsewhere
http://www.businesstodayegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6213"Five-year-old Italian hotel chain Domina has filed plans with the Ministry of Tourism to build six new hotels at locations across Egypt. The plans include new resorts on the Red Sea at Taba,...