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3 hrs ago | CNN

Tourism in Egypt: A slow recovery

Some worry that the Muslim Brotherhood government will impose strict morality provisions on Egypt's beach resorts, such as Algouna resort on the Red Sea.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Travel

7 hrs ago | The Daily Star

Egypt tourist arrivals rise, but not by enough

A Fennec fox, the smallest species of its kind, explores the White Desert area, a popular destination for tourists pre-2011. CAIRO: The number of tourists visiting Egypt rose in the first four months of 2012, the Cabinet said Tuesday, but analysts say the sector is still suffering from the aftermath of the country's 2011 uprising.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, Hosni Mubarak,

Wed May 22, 2013

The Daily Beast

The Next Arab Idol

A phenomenon is sweeping the Middle East. Arabs young and old are voting in record numbers-and this time it's not for the Muslim Brotherhood.

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Related Topix: Muslim Brotherhood, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel, Game Show, American Idol, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Carrie Underwood, Africa

Washington Examiner

Egypt leader claims victory in captives' release

This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows President Mohammed Morsi making a statement as he appears with members of the Egyptian security forces, unseen, after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Mohamed Morsi

Pan-African News Wire

Egypt Presidency Faces Hard Choices Over Kidnapped Soldiers

Egypt presidency faces hard choices over kidnapped soldiers: Analysts Nada Hussein Rashwan, Ahram Online, Sunday 19 May 2013 Four days after kidnapping of seven soldiers in Egypt's restless Sinai Peninsula, President Morsi appears to be mulling a number of unpalatable options, analysts say As the state continues to mull ways of securing the release ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Mohamed Morsi

Globe and Mail

Egypt grapples with economic dilemma as subsidy cuts hit industry

A boy runs after his goat in front of a closed factory on the outskirts of Cairo.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

Al Bawaba

Written in sand: Egypt denies UNESCO's threats to declassify its archaelogical sites

Facing anger from Egyptologists, a surprised Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eissa clarifies to Ahram Online that UNESCO is not actually threatening to remove six Egyptian archaeological sites from the World Heritage List .

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Archaeology, Anthropology, Science,

The Straits Times

Egypt court sentences 4 men to death by hanging for killing priest

An Egyptian court sentenced four men on Wednesday to death by hanging for the 2011 killing of a Coptic Christian priest in his apartment in the southern city of Assiut, state news agency Mena reported.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Reuters

Militants release seven Egyptians kidnapped in Sinai

Seven members of the Egyptian security forces kidnapped by Islamist militants in Sinai last week were freed on Wednesday and President Mohamed Mursi announced a new crackdown on lawlessness in the desert peninsula.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Mohamed Morsi, Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak

Tue May 21, 2013

American Reporter

MediaAMERICA in Egypt: No More Frankensteins

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 3, 12:50 p.m. PST -- With some 47 million people living in poverty, 50 million without health insurance, millions jobless and millions more underemployed, President Barak Obama could be less circumspect and more passionate about stimulating our economy.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Religion, Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Life, Holidays, Ramadan

Seattle Weekly

SIFF Week 2 Picks & Pans

This is a humbling documentary for a reporter to watch. Following three bloggers whose beat is their government's oppression, we see the extreme lengths they go to tell the world their stories: They bear house arrest, get beaten up by police, live for years in exile.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa

World-Grain

Harvesting wheat in Egypt

Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on 15 May said Egypt's production of wheat this year will reach 9.5 million tones, 30% increase of last year.

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Related Topix: World News, Mohamed Morsi

Mon May 20, 2013

DFW Catholic

Catholic Bishop in Egypt Notes Hopes for Strengthened Ties With Copts

A Coptic Catholic bishop has expressed hopes that the historic meeting May 10 between Pope Francis and Coptic Orthodox Pope Tawadros II will lead to the Coptic Orthodox Church recognizing Catholic baptism.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Africa, World News, Orthodox Church

Sun-Star

Aquino welcomes new Egypt's envoy

President Benigno Aquino III welcomed the new envoy of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Philippines who called on him in Malacanang on Monday.

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Al Bawaba

Egypt sends army into Sinai after soldiers kidnapped last week

Egyptian police hold signs denoting that the gates are closed and demanding the return of their colleagues, as they gather at the Egyptian crossing point into the Gaza Strip Egypt's army sent dozens of armoured vehicles and personnel carriers across the Suez Canal into North Sinai early on Monday, a security official has told Al-Ahram Arabic news ... (more)

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Sun May 19, 2013

Al Bawaba

Summer's music scene is sizzlin' with the Dum Tak...

Dum Tak Alternative Arab Music Festival will host some of the biggest independent musicians from all over the Arab world - including several from Egypt - between 28 May and 1 June in the Jordanian capital city Amman.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Jordan, Middle East, Lebanon

Pan-African News Wire

Outraged by Kidnappings, Egyptian Police Block Gaza Crossing for Second Day

Outraged by kidnappings, Egyptian police block Gaza crossing for second day Reuters and Ahram Online, Saturday 18 May 2013 Police block Rafah's Gaza crossing for the second day in protest at kidnapped colleagues; Palestinians stranded Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza ... (more)

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

IcNetwork

Peter James has come up with a new theory for why the Egyptians stop building the pyramids

It's the ultimate riddle of the sphinx that has vexed scholars for centuries: just why did the Ancient Egyptians stop building the pyramids? And now, some 4,500 years after they were made, an intrepid Welsh structural engineer may just have stumbled upon the answer.

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Related Topix: World News, Africa, Berkshire County, England, United Kingdom

Free Republic

Cemetery Reveals Baby-Making Season in Ancient Egypt

The peak period for baby-making sex in ancient Egypt was in July and August, when the weather was at its hottest.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News

Sat May 18, 2013

Free Republic

Remains of Nubian soldier who lived 1,400 years ago found in Egypt

Cairo, May 16 .- Archaeologists found the 1,400-year-old remains of a Nubian soldier in Aswan, a city in southern Egypt, Minister of State for Antiquities Ahmed Eisa said.

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