Egypt
- More Re Overhaul Of Luxor
Reuters UK (Alexander Dziadosz) LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - In the dusty streets behind the pasha's grand villa, bulldozers and forklifts are tearing into the city where Agatha Christie found inspiration and Howard Carter unearthed Tutankhamun. Egypt...
- Cairo From A Café
The Hindu (Savtej Sarna) A brief experience of Mahfouz country, though the café he used to frequent is no more, having given way to change… The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their...
- Emaar Misr Redevelops Birthplace Of Pyramids
ArabianBusiness.com (Rob Corder) Emaar Misr has unveiled its most ambitious project to date, a $2.1 billion mixed-use development in the Mokattam Mountains to the East of Cairo. Mokattam Mountains - which, at only 200 metres above sea level, are arguably...
- Increase In Jordanian Tourists To Egypt
http://www.strategiy.com/airlinenew.asp?id=20060626071019"Jordanian visitors to Egypt increased 4.5 percent to 50,514 in the first five months of this year, reflecting the strong cultural ties and increased business and leisure opportunities. Egypt’s...
- Threat To Ancient On At Heliopolis
http://tinyurl.com/cw6zt This is a copy of the complete letter to the Reader's Page of the Cairo Magazine, by Raoul Chomka, entitled Comments on Qatameya, but focusing on the building of a new shopping mall on the site of the city of On: "Thank you...
Egypt
Travel: Comparing the land of Pharaohs to Uganda
http://www.monitor.co.ug/sunday/life/life04297.php
A rather good virtual tour of Cairo, seen from the point of view from a Ugandan writer, Eden Kironde. She does touch on Giza and the Egyptian Museum, but the best parts of this piece are the bits that cover areas of Cairo where the tourist on heritage type tours don't usually venture - shopping malls, nightclubs, downtown markets and the new cities built on land reclaimed from the desert:
"In a country where there’s a piece of history in almost every suburb, the grand shopping malls are among the few symbols of the current generation. The Grand Mall in Maadi screams with splendour in the quiet neighbourhood. The mall oozes with such magnificence that all Ugandan malls would be reduced to kiosks in its presence. The six-storied mall possesses all the worldly goods in its enclosure. . . . Certainly in the over 70 million populated nation, not all can afford the prices of the goods in the malls and that is when the Ataba and downtown markets come in handy. Ataba, Egypt’s answer to our St. Balikudembe, has a variety of goods ranging from foodstuffs to domestic appliances at very low prices."
See the above page for the rest of the story.
- More Re Overhaul Of Luxor
Reuters UK (Alexander Dziadosz) LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - In the dusty streets behind the pasha's grand villa, bulldozers and forklifts are tearing into the city where Agatha Christie found inspiration and Howard Carter unearthed Tutankhamun. Egypt...
- Cairo From A Café
The Hindu (Savtej Sarna) A brief experience of Mahfouz country, though the café he used to frequent is no more, having given way to change… The night throws its canopy gently over the Great Pyramids at Giza, as if it were reluctant to smudge their...
- Emaar Misr Redevelops Birthplace Of Pyramids
ArabianBusiness.com (Rob Corder) Emaar Misr has unveiled its most ambitious project to date, a $2.1 billion mixed-use development in the Mokattam Mountains to the East of Cairo. Mokattam Mountains - which, at only 200 metres above sea level, are arguably...
- Increase In Jordanian Tourists To Egypt
http://www.strategiy.com/airlinenew.asp?id=20060626071019"Jordanian visitors to Egypt increased 4.5 percent to 50,514 in the first five months of this year, reflecting the strong cultural ties and increased business and leisure opportunities. Egypt’s...
- Threat To Ancient On At Heliopolis
http://tinyurl.com/cw6zt This is a copy of the complete letter to the Reader's Page of the Cairo Magazine, by Raoul Chomka, entitled Comments on Qatameya, but focusing on the building of a new shopping mall on the site of the city of On: "Thank you...