1. Out and About in the Big City
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

There are more than just sand castles and swingsets waiting for kids on vacationCairo is a kid-friendly city, with facilities catering to children nearly everywhere. Ceramic Café has been very

2. Quick English Arabic Tourist Dictionary
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...AROUND Can you take me to this address? Hal yomken an takhozny ela haza alaonwan? Please Take me to the Cairo Marriott Hotel Oreed an azhab ela fondoq Marriott al kahera I will get my own taxi. Sawf ...

3. Hurghada Restaurants, Bars and Cafes closed by Police
(Hurghada Info/Useful Stuff to know in Hurghada)

...a religious state,l" he added. Eid pointed out that such a campaign was proposed two years ago in Cairo but was met with failure. This campaign could trigger sectarian sedition in Egypt since...

4. 'We are going underwater. The sea will conquer our lands'
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...mdy's ancestors arrived on the shores of Lake Burrulus in the mid-19th century. In the dusty heat of Cairo at the time, French industrialists were rounding up forced labour squads to help build th...

5. Ramadan in Egypt
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...tradition started during the 16th century, when the canon was fired from the Cairo Citadel over "el-Moqattam" mount, and continued since then. &quot...

6. Missing Russian divers survive after swimming 20km
(Diving/Diving Health and Safety)

...r a dive in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, one of Egypt's top diving locations 800 kilometres south of Cairo. They were found on Tuesday at a tourist village in al-Quseir, north of Marsa Alam, sai...

7. Russian divers survive after swimming miles
(Diving/General Information on Diving)

...idents in 2007 in the waters off Marsa Alam, which is located nearly 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of Cairo. ...

8. Fourteen people die in Egypt crash
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO (Reuters) - Fourteen people, including 11 Serb tourists, were killed in Egypt Thursday when their tour bus crashed, a security source said. A source had put the original death toll at 11 but two

9. Egypt police hold 37 after village killing, violence
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Police have arrested 37 Muslims and Christians from a village in Egypt's Nile Delta in connection with the killing of a Muslim man and violence that followed, witnesses a

10. Egyptian Protesters Accuse Germany Of Racism
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...r all Muslims at the start of his court case, said the prosecutor. Al-Sherbini's body was flown to Cairo on Sunday, and met by her family and the German ambassador. Her funeral was attended by m...

11. Red Sea resort risks destruction by power plant
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...nesto Preatoni Immobiliare (EPI). They asked for $2 billion to be paid over 10 years. Within hours, from Cairo to Hurghada, people staged huge demonstrations. A mini-revolution sparked to save marine ...

12. First Confirmed Swine-Flu Victim in Hurghada
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...rus to 39, Abdel-Rahman Shahin said. Among the five cases were three Egyptian children who returned to Cairo with their families two days ago: a 6-year-old Egyptian girl arriving from the United Sta...

13. Egypt swine flu cases rise to 18
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt reported three new cases of swine flu on Saturday, as two Egyptian children and a Colombian woman tested positive for the A(H1N1) virus, bringing to 18 the total. A health ministry

14. Egyptian tycoon gets death sentence in singer's murder
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...led. The sentence may be a sign that 'nobody is above the law,' an analyst says. Reporting from Cairo -- A billionaire developer and former member of the Egyptian parliament was convicted and...

15. Swine flu scare at university dorm in Cairo
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...ian police have imposed quarantine restrictions on a dormitory of the prestigious American University in Cairo after an outbreak of swine flu. Two students arriving from the US have been diagnosed wit...

16. Health Minister: Egypt free of swine flu
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...all, particularly in the Middle East and Africa. In this respect, El-Gabali lauded the measures taken by Cairo Governorate to cull all pigs as they are the host of the deadly virus.Following the appea...

17. Bombing Attacks near Churches in Cairo
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

Copt leaving sanctuary knifed in Minya; bomb explodes near venerable structure in Cairo. CAIRO, May 25  – In separate attacks in Egypt earlier this month, a Coptic Christian suffered severe

18. German Tourist with swine flu at Hurghada Airport
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

... he had visited a pig farm 10 days earlier in Germany. Medical samples have been sent to laboratories in Cairo for testing. . Confirmed cases of A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, have b...

19. Egyptians want price-fixing and removal of Israel
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

CAIRO - Palestine Media - An opinion poll of Egypt, during the presentation of the annual conference of the National Center for Social and Criminal Research in collaboration with the Center for Inform

20. Egypt reports 24th bird flu death
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

Latest casualty is a 6-year-old boy, nation’s health ministry says CAIRO, - The Egyptian Health Ministry says a 6-year-old boy has died of bird flu, the country's 24th casualty to the lethal

21. Doctor drowned in diving tragedy
(Diving/General Information on Diving)

...is degree in medicine in 2007 he completed his pre-registration year at Ein Shams University Hospital in Cairo and last November began his career as a Hyperbaric Chamber Doctor - specialising in divin...

22. Egypt road crash leaves 13 dead
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO (AFP) — Thirteen factory workers were killed on Saturday when their small pickup truck crashed head on into a large lorry in southern Egypt, a security official said. The workers were on t

23. Scare sends mask sales up in Egypt
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

Cairo: For most of his 15 years as a pharmacist, Samir Hamouda does not remember to have sold a single face mask in one week. But since fears of a swine flu epidemic in Egypt were raised in late Apri

24. Austrian Tourist banned from entry into Egypt
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

... of passengers suspected of carrying the swine flu virus, but all have been proven free of the germ. At Cairo International Airport, Egypt's main gateway, masked faces of customs and immigration ...

25. Brewhaha
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...ble operations such as the Dimetry Yafoudious and Coladis and Papa Dakis distilleries in Alexandria, and Cairo’s Ryad Kena factory and Bekhiet Samman Toma distillery. Overall, ABC and EGYBEV ha...

26. Egyptian woman contracts bird flu as cases mount
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman has contracted the highly pathogenic bird flu virus after coming into contact with infected birds, state news agency MENA said on Thursday, as the virus gathers pac

27. Egypt's pyramids dim for Earth Hour
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...time (1830 GMT) on Saturday, lights shining around the Pyramids in Giza plateau in the western suburb of Cairo were switched off for the global initiative "Earth Hour" to highlight the threa...

28. Egypt becomes a popular destination for Russian tourism
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...in Egypt include Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Taba, Luxor, Aswan, Safaga, Al Ein El Sokhna and Cairo. The historical relations between the two countries and the fact that Egypt was one of th...

29. Owner of sunken Egyptian ferry gets 7 years prison
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

CAIRO (AP) — The wealthy owner of a ferry that sank three years ago in the Red Sea, killing more than 1,000 people, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and negligence Wednesday and sentenc

30. Bomb Terror in Egypt
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...unded at least 20 other people in a crowded square near a popular tourist bazaar in the Egyptian capital Cairo on Sunday, officials said.The blast was the first fatal attack on tourists in Egypt since...

31. Ancient Egypt
(Egypt/Ancient Artifacts)

Ancient Egypt was a civilization in eastern North Africa concentrated along the middle to lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern nation of Egypt. The civilization began around 3150

32. Was mummy King Tut a daddy?
(Egypt/Ancient Artifacts)

...r 3,000 years ago, by explorer Howard Carter in 1922. Since then they have been kept in storage at the Cairo School of Medicine, and have not been publicly displayed. Some scholars think the femal...

33. I started with dead dogs and donkeys...
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...eat meat." Khalifa was caught red-handed on March 3 as he was skinning a dead donkey by a canal in Cairo. He later led police to the place where he stored large quantities of dead animal meat, w...

34. John Bradley on the Future of Egypt
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...up Nasser nationalized the newspapers and appointed his lackeys as the editors in chief. Before the coup Cairo was wonderfully cosmopolitan; Nasser then expelled the foreigners and his rank xenophobia...

35. You walk like an Egyptian
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...f military here, more uniforms than civilians.  They are EVERYWHERE!   Finally arrived in Cairo in one piece.  That is one big, dirty city.   Went to the pyramids, not as...

36. Egypt's poor revolutionize recycling
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

In Cairo, there is a group of people known as the Zabaleen. The term means "garbage collectors," and for years, they have collected and recycled huge bundles of trash that come in from the r

37. Highways or death traps?
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

..., asks Gihan Shahine. The sun's rays had just begun to light the sky when a bus slipped off the wet, Cairo-Alexandria desert highway, killing six Australian tourists, including a 14-year-old boy a...

38. 4 killed in Egypt bus accident
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Egypt's state-owned news agency says two French tourists and two Egyptians have been killed in a bus accident on a desert road in south Egypt.     The Middle East Ne

39. Trip to Egypt includes underwater fun plus ancient wonders
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...ile traditional Egyptian culture is hard to find near the tourist hotels, the ancient sites at Luxor and Cairo are a day trip away. We visited Hurghada recently with the assistance of one of a numbe...

40. The Coming Storm
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...suppose everywhere is competition," says Kevin Brett, general manager of the luxury 617-room Conrad Cairo Hotel. "But nobody actually has the blend of the history, the sheer number of sites,...

41. eDar First Class Property Service
(Hurghada Info/Real Estate and Property)

...t has eventually been able to formulate a strong and wealth database for different sites allover Greater Cairo and Alex. For different types of units including but not limited to Apartments, villas, b...

42. Pyramids Makeover
(Egypt/Ancient Artifacts)

The last of the Seven Ancient Wonders gets a twenty-first century facelift, but pleasing everyone proves to be a difficult task The site of the 5,000-year-old Giza Pyramids is now up to speed with the

43. Egypt desert hostages freed after 10-day ordeal
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...ve Germans, five Italians, a Romanian and eight Egyptian drivers and tour guides — were flown into Cairo aboard an Egyptian military plane and taken for medical checks, state television said. T...

44. Foreign Embassies under extra security
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

An Egyptian policeman stands guard outside the Italian embassy in Cairo on September 22, 2008. Masked bandits have kidnapped a group of foreign tourists, including Germans, Italians and a Romanian, in

45. Violent incidents against tourists in Egypt
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...ts ambush tourist bus, killing a British woman and wounding two British men. Feb. 26, 1993 -- Bomb in Cairo coffee shop kills a Turk, a Swede and an Egyptian and wounds 20. June 8 -- Bomb near t...

46. Five days on, most victims still under Duweiqa rubble
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

CAIRO: As rescue efforts in the Duweiqa rockslide disaster enter day five, there are more bodies still under the rubble than had been recovered. As of press time Tuesday, 57 were confirmed dead and o

47. How to walk like an Egyptian
(Egypt/Travel in Egypt)

...urists, others stay longer, working for international companies or as students. Most enjoy their stay in Cairo, but there are certain challenges, often exacerbated by cultural misunderstandings, that ...

48. Early Ramadan shifts vacation map
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...’s roster of activities, the remaining highlights of the summer season seem to be shifting back to Cairo which attracts hoards of local and foreign tourists to its Ramadan festivities. And with ...

49. Mobinil launches 3G service across Egypt
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

...anding over a frequency band for testing. The mobile operator’s 3G services will be available in Cairo, Alexandria, Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, Dahab, Taba, Safaga, Marsa Alam, Luxor and Aswan....

50. Cairo luxury hotel lifts ban on serving alcohol
(Egypt/General Information about Egypt)

Cairo's luxury Grand Hyatt hotel is serving alcohol again after a compromise was reached between the international chain and the hotel's Saudi owner who abruptly declared it a dry venue earlie