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A community portal about Egypt with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an... [more]
A community portal about Egypt with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country in North Africa that includes the Sinai Peninsula, a land bridge to Asia. Covering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometers, Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.
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China Confidential has learned that the Obama administration is quietly backing the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in an attempt to curry favor with the banned Islamist opposition group. In response to the Brotherhood's emergence from elections in 2005 as Egypt's main opposition group, the government of President Hosni Mubarak has wisely banned religion-based political parties. The government has introduced legislation preventing Muslim Brothers...
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Ibrahim al-Houdaiby's excellent overview of the challenges facing the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood reminds me of this session at this month's MESA meeting:"It has been forty years since the publication of Richard P. Mitchell’s The Society of the Muslim Brothers, the seminal study of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and a groundbreaking work on modern Islamic movements. While commenting on Mitchell’s contributions to the field, this...
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Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt and the California-based Getty Conservation Institute ...
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Filed under: History, Africa, Egypt, TransportationTaking a hot air balloon ride over the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt has become a "must do" for travelers visiting the ancient temples and tombs of that region. The morning skies have often been filled with the colorful balloons as they drift slowly over the desert landscapes below. But that all changed back in April, when a balloon crashed, and the government was forced to put a halt...
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- Valley of The Kings Tombs Endangered By Fracture Zones (redorbit.com)
Catching the Egyptair flight from Cairo to Mumbai, I watch the man next to me cross himself a few times. It has been an eventful month, starting with a cruise on the Nile and ending with guided tours of the Citadel, Coptic Cairo, the Egyptian Museum ...
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