Egypt
Chicago Tribune (Stephen Franklin)
Travel article about some of the more recent aspects of Alexandria's past:
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- Cosmopolitan Alexandria Endangered
Al Masry Al Youm (Fatma Keshk) “The city of Alexander,” “The second Egyptian capital,” “The cosmopolitan city,” “The bride of the Mediterranean;” so many are the names given to Alexandria. In the old quarters of the city, first built in...
- Alexandria The Crossroads
Saudi Aramco World (Edward Lewis) With photographs. Visitors to Alexandria are usually surprised by two features: the extent to which the city contributed to and shaped the Mediterranean world, and the complete lack of physical evidence that demonstrates...
- Travel: The City That Fell Into The Sea
The Observer ( Dan Whitaker) Dated 29th July 2007, this is another one that got away - thanks to my father for sending it to me. More than a million Britons journeyed to Egypt last year. Almost all of them either battled the regimented coach parties to...
- Tourism: Alexandria
Reuters Alexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites. This summer, a new luxury hotel opened...
- 50-year Saga To Reclaim Egypt's 'cecil Hotel'
Thanks to Tony Marson for forwarding this article, which offers a nostalgic look at the Cecil Hotel, which has been reclaimed by its former owners. It took exactly half-a-century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious...
Egypt
Travel: Rolling back the centuries in Egypt's second city
Chicago Tribune (Stephen Franklin)
Travel article about some of the more recent aspects of Alexandria's past:
As the old hotel elevator rumbles upward, its antiquarian wood and brass cage carries me backward.
Back to the 1930s when the Cecil Hotel—staring out at an ancient harbor, a busy square and chic European-style patisseries—was the gathering place for aspiring (and already world-famous) writers, for social climbers and for curious foreigners caught up in Egypt's mystique.
Back to a breezy, Mediterranean city on the edge of Africa that once felt like Marseilles and London and Naples and Istanbul, and a mixture of everything from the Middle East thrown into an exotic urban stew.
Back to a decades-old cosmopolitan elegance.
What draws me in 2007 to Alexandria, the heart of which is a tiny isthmus between two harbors, is exactly this: a long-lingering connection to the past with just enough taste of the new.
See the above page for more.
- Cosmopolitan Alexandria Endangered
Al Masry Al Youm (Fatma Keshk) “The city of Alexander,” “The second Egyptian capital,” “The cosmopolitan city,” “The bride of the Mediterranean;” so many are the names given to Alexandria. In the old quarters of the city, first built in...
- Alexandria The Crossroads
Saudi Aramco World (Edward Lewis) With photographs. Visitors to Alexandria are usually surprised by two features: the extent to which the city contributed to and shaped the Mediterranean world, and the complete lack of physical evidence that demonstrates...
- Travel: The City That Fell Into The Sea
The Observer ( Dan Whitaker) Dated 29th July 2007, this is another one that got away - thanks to my father for sending it to me. More than a million Britons journeyed to Egypt last year. Almost all of them either battled the regimented coach parties to...
- Tourism: Alexandria
Reuters Alexandria, the Egyptian coastal city where Cleopatra had love affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, is trying to regain some of its old glory as a tourism destination for European and Arab elites. This summer, a new luxury hotel opened...
- 50-year Saga To Reclaim Egypt's 'cecil Hotel'
Thanks to Tony Marson for forwarding this article, which offers a nostalgic look at the Cecil Hotel, which has been reclaimed by its former owners. It took exactly half-a-century for the Metzger family to reclaim ownership of the Cecil Hotel, the illustrious...