Egypt
- Travel: Feeling Safe In Cairo
New York Times (Jennifer Conlin) An interesting article, and reassuringly positive. A family visiting Egypt were in the Cairo square where the bomb went off only days before. The writer's daughter had a photograph which showed the bench where the...
- Does Egypt's Indiana Jones Have A Hidden Agenda?
Newsvine - Part 1 Newsvine - Part 2 New finds are being generated more prolifically than at any time since 1997 when more than 60 people, mostly Japanese and Swiss tourists, along with Egyptian police and guides, were killed by an attack on the archaelogical...
- Tourism: Luxor Massacre Changed Tourism In Egypt
Egypt Daily Star It was a stunning attack, still recalled with horror a decade later: Terrorists armed with knives and automatic weapons massacred 58 foreign tourists, mainly Germans, Swiss and Japanese, at one of Egypt's most popular pharaonic temples.But...
- More On The Anti-sculpture Fatwa
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p01s02-wome.html" More than 1,300 years after the Muslim conquest swept through Egypt, one of the country's highest religious authorities has declared that its ancient sculptures are forbidden by Islam. In his fatwa...
- Recent Cairo Attacks - Impacts On Tourism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/02/wegypt02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/02/ixworld.html "Seven tourists were reported to be injured in Saturday's incidents, which came less than a month after a bomb near Cairo's well-visited...
Egypt
Statue attack fuels fears
http://tinyurl.com/rdpbl (telegraph.co.uk)
A disturbing account describing a recent attack on three statues in Cairo: "A religiously motivated attack on statues at a museum in Cairo has sparked outcry in Egypt and fuelled fears that the country is veering towards an Islamic state.
The attack on three artworks, by a black-clad and veiled woman screaming,'Infidels, infidels!' followed a fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti of Cairo, Ali Gomaa, which banned all decorative statues of living beings. . . . It led to furious criticism of the mufti from Egyptian liberals. In a televised debate with the mufti after the attack, one poet raged that 'the prevalent religious discourse in the country encourages terror'. Although the ancient treasures of Egypt have been protected under Islam so far, an increasing extremism in the country could make statues such as the quartzite head of Nefertiti, the colossus of Amenhotep, and the golden death mask of Tutankhamen possible targets in future."
The attack on three artworks, by a black-clad and veiled woman screaming,'Infidels, infidels!' followed a fatwa issued by the Grand Mufti of Cairo, Ali Gomaa, which banned all decorative statues of living beings. . . . It led to furious criticism of the mufti from Egyptian liberals. In a televised debate with the mufti after the attack, one poet raged that 'the prevalent religious discourse in the country encourages terror'. Although the ancient treasures of Egypt have been protected under Islam so far, an increasing extremism in the country could make statues such as the quartzite head of Nefertiti, the colossus of Amenhotep, and the golden death mask of Tutankhamen possible targets in future."
See the complete article on the above page for the full account.
- Travel: Feeling Safe In Cairo
New York Times (Jennifer Conlin) An interesting article, and reassuringly positive. A family visiting Egypt were in the Cairo square where the bomb went off only days before. The writer's daughter had a photograph which showed the bench where the...
- Does Egypt's Indiana Jones Have A Hidden Agenda?
Newsvine - Part 1 Newsvine - Part 2 New finds are being generated more prolifically than at any time since 1997 when more than 60 people, mostly Japanese and Swiss tourists, along with Egyptian police and guides, were killed by an attack on the archaelogical...
- Tourism: Luxor Massacre Changed Tourism In Egypt
Egypt Daily Star It was a stunning attack, still recalled with horror a decade later: Terrorists armed with knives and automatic weapons massacred 58 foreign tourists, mainly Germans, Swiss and Japanese, at one of Egypt's most popular pharaonic temples.But...
- More On The Anti-sculpture Fatwa
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0418/p01s02-wome.html" More than 1,300 years after the Muslim conquest swept through Egypt, one of the country's highest religious authorities has declared that its ancient sculptures are forbidden by Islam. In his fatwa...
- Recent Cairo Attacks - Impacts On Tourism
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/02/wegypt02.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/02/ixworld.html "Seven tourists were reported to be injured in Saturday's incidents, which came less than a month after a bomb near Cairo's well-visited...