Egypt
Al Masry Al Youm
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova inspected the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to check the damage after it was robbed during the chaos of the January 25 Revolution. Guided by Tarek El-Awadi, director general of the...
- Tourists Return To Egyptian Museum
Al Masry Al Youm Four tourist groups visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square following its re-opening on Sunday morning. The Museum was secured from both the inside and out following the government's decision to re-open the museum to international...
- Travel: Noise Levels In Cairo
New York Times (Michael Slackman) This isn't a travel article but I think that it will certainly be of interest to anyone who has visited or is planning to visit Cairo. I found it fascinating. Thanks very much to Rhio Barnhart for sending me the link....
- Failure Of Terrorism To Derail Tourism
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/eg3.htm Article based on an interview with Ahmed El-Khadem, head of the Egyptian Tourist Authority: "While El-Khadem admits that the fall out from the Sharm bombings had a negative impact on the second half of 2005...
Egypt
Visits to Egyptian Museum return to normal
Al Masry Al Youm
Tareq al-Awadi, head of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, said Sunday that visiting levels to the museum returned to normal this week with the restoration of calm in Tahrir Square.
Awadi said visits increased to normal levels on Saturday and Sunday.
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Bokova has been showing UNESCO's support for the Egyptian revolution and giving her assurance that the international body would back the integrity of the nation's archaeological treasures after the thuggery and...
- Unesco Director General Tours The Egytian Museum
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova inspected the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to check the damage after it was robbed during the chaos of the January 25 Revolution. Guided by Tarek El-Awadi, director general of the...
- Tourists Return To Egyptian Museum
Al Masry Al Youm Four tourist groups visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square following its re-opening on Sunday morning. The Museum was secured from both the inside and out following the government's decision to re-open the museum to international...
- Travel: Noise Levels In Cairo
New York Times (Michael Slackman) This isn't a travel article but I think that it will certainly be of interest to anyone who has visited or is planning to visit Cairo. I found it fascinating. Thanks very much to Rhio Barnhart for sending me the link....
- Failure Of Terrorism To Derail Tourism
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/777/eg3.htm Article based on an interview with Ahmed El-Khadem, head of the Egyptian Tourist Authority: "While El-Khadem admits that the fall out from the Sharm bombings had a negative impact on the second half of 2005...