What Happened When I Tried Being a Tourist
I was mistaken for a foreigner – and that somehow gave schoolchildren and teenagers alike the right to grab me (and my friend of course) and take pictures with us.
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Cairo
Rashed: ‘Egyptians Must Hold On to Hope of Restoring Tourism’
Rashed says, “Young people must build themselves on their own, and not to place blame on the government, but rather to cooperate with it for the sake of Egypt.”
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Overpopulation Hinders Egypt’s Development
Thousands of TV ads, newspaper campaigns, and even a push from former first lady Suzanne Mubarak stressed the importance of slowing down population growth.
The campaigns failed.
AUC the Fragment, the Bubble
After this gruesome incident, it is time for us to really decide what matters to us as a community and how we communicate that to each other, to the administration and even to the rest of the international academic world.
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Ras Sidr: Egypt’s Rising Star in Sinai
“Ras Sidr is a beautiful place and could be marketed as the best location for wind surfing and water sports in Egypt – and one of the best in the world – but it is missing two things: accessibility and high quality assistance,” said Zaazou.
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Will the Ethiopian Grand Dam Secure Egypt’s Future Water Needs?
“Egypt is downstream from the principal source of Nile water, which is Ethiopia. Egypt is presently receiving about 55-60 billion cubic meters of water per year, depending on how much it rains in Ethiopia,” said Tutwiler.
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The Making of a Future Egypt: Challenges, Dreams and Reality
Perhaps, the fact that there is acknowledgement that the country needs urban renewal, let alone a new capital, should reassure us that the government is thinking and strategizing for a 21st Century Egypt.
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AUC hosts private universities Student Union elections
“Our first aim is to get the Ministry of Higher Education to accept the presence of our union,” El Moataz Bellah said.
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