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PHOTOS: 6 Unique Small-Ship Cruises

BootsnAll | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Bootsnall, Caribbean, Egypt, France, Cruises, Travel, Vietnam, Nile, Burgundy, Small Ship Cruises, Paris, Galapagos Islands, Maine, Slidepollajax, Travel News
BootsnAll

Small ship cruises aren't always cheap, but their prices are often comparable with big ship cruises and can offer more bang for your buck.

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85 Percent Of Egypt Cruises Docked: Recovery Uncertain

www.reuters.com | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Nile River, Cruise Industry, Egypt, Global Pulse, Cruises, Nile Cruises, Nile, Egypt Tourism, Egyptian Revolution, Travel News

The newly launched Al-Hambra cruise ship sailed only twice on the Nile before President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February and has been docked sinc...

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WATCH: An Author's Journey Down The Chaotic Nile

Huffington Post | Andrew Burmon | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: International Destinations, Sudan Travel, The Black Nile, Travel Video, Travel Tv, Africa Travel, Destinations, South Sudan Travel, Lake Victoria, Egypt, Africa, Uganda Travel, Dan Morrison, Travel Books, Nile, South Sudan, Video, Travel News

On a clear day, Lake Victoria’s islands are agreeably symmetrical at their waterlines. They float like furry green blimps across a hazy grey scrim s...

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Dumber Than Mubarak?

Will Stebbins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt Protests, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Democracy, Hosni Mubarak, Nile, Dynasty, Egypt, Pyramids, Anwar Sadat, World News
Will Stebbins

They may be preparing to sacrifice Mubarak to appease the crowds, but there are unmistakable signs that the regime is busy inventing a new argument for their ongoing monopoly on power.

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New Chinese Dam Project to Fuel Ethnic Conflict in Sudan

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rivers, Nubians, Human Rights, Dams, International Rivers, Nile, Sudan, China, Africa, Sudan Dams, Egypt Protests, World News
Peter Bosshard

Dams have impoverished tens of thousands of people and triggered serious human rights violations in Sudan. Now Chinese companies have won contracts to build three more hydropower projects in the country.

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Full of Croc: Why Not to Mess Around in Small Boats in Africa

Richard Bangs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crocodiles, Nile, Africa, Travel News
Richard Bangs

Hendrik Coetzee's death by crocodile while attempting to make a first kayak descent down the upper reaches of the White Nile, it brought back memories of my own first descent in Africa, and how lucky I was to have survived.

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Red Sea Sharks Made in Israel?

Firas Al-Atraqchi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nile River, Egypt, Tourism, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Sinai, Cairo, Sharm-El-Sheikh, Islamic Jihad, Nile, Israel, Red Sea, Sharks, World News, World News
Firas Al-Atraqchi

A German tourist was mauled to death by a shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast Sunday, but if popular rumors on the street are to be believed, it was the I...

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Kin Tut's Grandfather, Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Carved In Statue Discovered In Egypt

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Pyramid, Ancient Egypt, Luxor, Nile, Amenhotep III, Zahi Hawass, Archaeology, King Tun, Valley of the Kings, Tutankhamun, World News

Exactly eighty-eight years after another historic Egyptian discovery, archaeologists conducting a routine dig Thursday unearthed the top half of a red...

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German Company Faces Criminal Complaint Over Abuses in Sudan Dam

Peter Bosshard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Transnational-Companies, Sudan, Human Rights, Dams, International Rivers, Nile, Green News
Peter Bosshard

The criminal complaint against Lahmeyer International is a pioneering example of how transnational corporations can be held to account for human rights abuses on their projects.

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Reflections on Revisiting Cairo 20 Years Later - Egypt on the Rise

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Giza Pyramids, Nile, Cairo, Economy, Developing World, Developing Countries, Economic Growth, Politics News
Howard Steven Friedman

I first visited Cairo as a student nearly 20 years ago. I remember vividly the friendliness of the people and the blazing heat. I return to Cairo no...

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Will Smith's Last Pharaoh vs. Egypt's History by Hollywood

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, Mohammed ElBaradei, Mohamed ElBaradei, Ayman Nour, World News
Aladdin Elaasar

Will Smith's upcoming movie sheds light on long forgotten Egyptian history. If you want to know the true story of the Last Pharaoh of Egypt, you'd better pay attention to what's going on in Egypt today and in the near future.

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A Revolution in the Making?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, World News
Aladdin Elaasar

A sense of frustration, hopelessness and repression seems to be haunting Egyptian youth and the older people as well, struggling to make ends meet. The result has impacted Egyptian society.

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Is Egypt's Economy in Crisis?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, World News
Aladdin Elaasar

Egypt is undergoing a severe liquidity crisis caused by the loss of hard currency from few sources: tourism was a key source of foreign exchange and the main engine of growth.

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Thirty Years after Khomeini: Will Egypt Turn into another Iran?

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, World News
Aladdin Elaasar

The 83-year-old President Mubarak of Egypt has been in power since 1981. Concerns about his health draw much greater attention to the question of who will next rule the nation of Egypt.

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Will Smith, The Last Pharaoh

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: William J. Bennett, Europe, Islam, Jews, Congress, America, Ann Coulter, Liberals, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, 9/11, Best Seller, Middle East, George W. Bush, Iran, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Fareed Zakaria, Movies, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Conservatives, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Pyramids, Jewish, Jon Stewart, Dick Cheney, Robin Wright, Librarians, Hosni Mubarak, Nile, North Africa, Africa, Will Smith, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Harry Potter, Copts, Rush Limbaugh, Stephenie Meyer, Bill O'Reilly, Hot, Entertainment News
Aladdin Elaasar

Will Smith's latest project, The Last Pharaoh, is a greatmega action movie expected by millions of fans around the globe.

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Risky Business in the Arab World

Aladdin Elaasar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, William J. Bennett, Europe, Jews, Congress, America, Tom Hanks, Ann Coulter, Liberals, Steven Speilburg, Fiction, Oprah Winfry, 9/11, Middle East, George W. Bush, Obama, Aladdin Elaasar, Movies, Conservatives, Adc, Pyramids, Jewish, Robin Wright, Patriot Act, Hosni Mubarak, North Africa, Adl, Will Smith, Book Clubs, War on Terror, The Last Pharaoh, Senate, Human Rights, Cairo, Romance, Bill Clinton, Arab, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Christianity, Teachers, Copts, Stephenie Meyer, Hot, Islam, USA, Dick Morris, The Twilight Saga, Best Seller, Iran, Tolerance, Fareed Zakaria, Amity Shlaes, Jerome R. Corsi Lynne Cheney, Inside Egypt, Egypt, Cair, Dick Cheney, Jon Stewart, Librarians, Nile, John McCain, Africa, Mark R. Levin, Nancy Pelosi, Arabia, Thomas L. Friedman, Bin Laden, Non Fiction, Barack, Sarah Palin, Harry Potter, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Saul Alinsky, Books News
Aladdin Elaasar

Why is it hard for Arab and Muslim writers, professors, intellectuals and average persons to speak out against suicide bombers, Jihadists, anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism in their countries?

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The Cairo Stop: New Ideas in an Ancient World

Michael Luongo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Cairo 52, Gay Travels in the Muslim World, Arab Diffusion, Michael Luongo, Nile, Middle East, Gay Rights, Cairo, Gay Travel, Queen Nile Boat, Mubarek, Tahrir Square, World News
Michael Luongo

The Cairo Book Fair, the second largest book fair in the world, is an amazing event -- vendors sprawl through dozens of exhibition halls as visitors come in droves. If only Book Expo America were like this.

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Hey, Dan Brown, Call Me

Jessica Rovello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Nikola Tesla, Pini Society, Arkadium, King Tuts Tomb, Dan Brown the Lost Symbol, The Lost Symbol, Jessica Rovello, Symbol Quest, World War II, Dan Brown, Nile, Entertainment News
Jessica Rovello

Whether you love or hate his ideas, it's hard to deny that Brown has a gift for pulling you in and getting you excited about the possibility that there are truths being kept from us.

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