Archive for March, 2011

Cairo schools and universities have reopened, people have returned to work and the democratic transition is evolving in a more or less orderly fashion. The capital of 18 million, which managed to function throughout the uprising without a police force, has returned to its usual state of chaos, its daily traffic jams sometimes gnarled... »

Egypt will recognize South Sudan as an independent state after it voted to secede from Khartoum. The new government also said it would introduce a new proposal to Nile Basin nations to try to overcome a stalemate on sharing the river’s waters, as a seven-minister delegation headed by Egypt’s prime minister arrived on Sunday in... »

Hopes are pinned on a swift Egypt tourism recovery, despite ongoing political uncertainty and sporadic low-level violence. The collapse of the UK’s African Safari Club, a Nile-cruise specialist, has led industry experts to warn of further troubles for smaller tourist enterprises. More established tour companies anticipate a severe dent in Egypt-based earnings but for actual... »

Egypt’s stock exchange surged by about 5 percent early Sunday as investors previously cautious about its nearly two-month closure returned to the market and began reversing the earlier losses. The EGX30 was trading up almost 5 percent, to 5,198 points, by 11:15 a.m. local time. The EGX100 was up almost 7 percent. Gains were registered across... »

The Ten Commandments Blue-ray Limited Edition: Only 100,000 will be made Movie Content: • 6-Discs Blu-ray and DVD Combo Pack • 2-Disc DVD of the fully restored 1956 version • 2-Disc Blu-ray of the fully restored 1956 version • Exclusive Blu-ray of 1923 Ten Commandments (First time on Blu-ray) • DVD of all-new bonus features Extra Content Exclusively in Box Set: • Commemorative 50-page book with... »

NEW YORK CITY and CAIRO—March 24, 2011—Past Preservers and Crimson Bamboo LLC announced today that they would be teaming up to develop tours for Rama, Crimson Bamboo’s flagship augmented reality app for iPhone. Named by BBC Travel in 2010 as one of the ten best new travel apps, Rama is a mobile phone platform that... »

The exchange rate of the US dollar continued to rise against the Egyptian pound on Sunday. The price of the US dollar reached LE5.92, up from LE5.85 before 25 January. According to an executive director of a currency exchange company, the value of one US dollar will exceed the barrier of LE6 by the end of... »

Three perpetrators have been arrested with 12 of the Egyptian Museum’s missing objects in their possession after spreading videos and pictures of the objects to mobile phones of others trying to find a buyer. The Antiquities police in co-operation with the Armed Forces tracked them and set them a trap with the help of... »

I assume by the source of this article that the currency is the Canadian dollar. Canada plans to offer $11 million to help Egypt in its democracy-building efforts. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon told Egypt’s Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and his cabinet that Canada was willing to participate in Egypt’s “transition from dictatorship to democracy.” The money... »

Download the official complete list of missing antiquities from the Cairo Museum here. »