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	<title>Egypt Then and Now</title>
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		<title>Fourth Luxor International Painting Symposium</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Overlooking the Nile, the 25 artists taking part in the fourth Luxor International Painting Symposium &#8212; which this year took &#8220;Africa, Expressions of Identity&#8221; as its theme &#8212; were taken on excursions to nearby islands and ancient ruins and used the trips as a time to bond and exchange more than just artistic skills. In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/02/fourth-luxor-international-painting-symposium/</link>
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		<title>Best to worst places for women to live in</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek/The Daily Beast analyzed dozens of data points for 165 countries to determine which countries offer women the most expansive rights and the best quality of life.
Best place is,,,(drum roll)
1, Iceland
Overall score (out of 100): 100.0
Justice: 100.0
Health: 90.5
Education: 96.7
Economics: 88.0
Politics: 92.8
United States ranks 8, United Kingdom ranks 19.
Egypt ranks…
120, Egypt
Overall score (out of 100): 51.9
Justice: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/02/best-to-worst-places-for-women-to-live-in/</link>
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		<title>Hurghada hotels display endangered species on buffet tables</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two hotels from the Pickalbatros chain in Hurghada have been serving up buffets of endangered fish and sharks. With the corpses of the sharks, rays and parrot fish hanging from the ceiling, chefs stand by to cut and grill them to order, horrifying some tourists who sounded the alarm to the Hurghada Environmental Protection and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/hurghada-hotels-display-endangered-species-on-buffet-tables/</link>
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		<title>British the second most popular visitors to Egypt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Egypt Tourism Authority has announced that 1,034,413 British holiday makers visited Egypt in 2011. This makes the UK the second most popular tourist nationality to the home of the ancient Pharaohs, topped only by Russia with Germany coming third.
It has also been announced that the average UK holiday maker spends 11.45 nights per annum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/british-the-second-most-popular-visitors-to-egypt/</link>
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		<title>Zahi Hawass: What I have been doing lately</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
For the last few months, I have been busy writing and working hard, as I am used to doing. Actually, being away from government has been good for me. I needed time to recover from all the trouble, and to give the friends of Seth, the god of chaos, some time to calm down. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/zahi-hawass-what-i-have-been-doing-lately/</link>
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		<title>Mummy gets back her mask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The daughter of a wealthy family in ancient Egypt has been preserved in the Reading Public Museum for decades, but a key part of the exhibit has been in storage until now.
More than 2,000 years ago Nefrina had a mask made to protect her face. And Wednesday the mask was delivered to the museum.
Nefrina came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/mummy-gets-back-her-mask/</link>
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		<title>Egypt&#8217;s Yoga Festival &#8220;Back To Freedom&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more travelers are looking for both relaxation and ways of improving their health whilst being on vacation.  Holiday makers can now combine these two aspects by visiting the ancient world of Egypt and its Fifth International Yoga Festival which takes place at the Domina Coral Bay Elisir Hotel in Sharm el-Sheikh from 26 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/egypts-yoga-festival-back-to-freedom/</link>
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		<title>KV64 &#8211; 1,100 year-old tomb of female singer found in Egypt&#8217;s Valley of the Kings</title>
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Egyptian and Swiss archaeologists have unearthed a roughly 1,100 year-old tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings.
It is the only tomb of a woman not related to the ancient Egyptian royal families ever found in the Valley of the Kings, said Mansour Boraiq, the top government official for the Antiquities’ Ministry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/kv64-1100-year-old-tomb-of-female-singer-found-in-egypts-valley-of-the-kings/</link>
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		<title>Groundwater lowering project at Temple of Edfu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) kicked-off a new groundwater lowering project at Temple Edfu.  The project will construct a drainage system to lower the groundwater level that threatens antiquities in the Edfu Temple and will be carried out over approximately 20 months.
The Government of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://allaboutegypt.org/2012/01/groundwater-lowering-project-at-temple-of-edfu/</link>
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		<title>One woman play:  Hatshepsut, the Female Pharaoh</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Actor&#8217;s Workshop of Ithaca Theater Company will launch its Emerging Playwright Series tonight with the premiere of &#8220;Hatshepsut, the Female Pharaoh,&#8221; a one-woman play written by Timothy Lawrence.
The show stars Esosa Edosomwan as Hatshepsut. There will be three performances at Cornell University&#8217;s Risley Theatre: at 7:30 p.m. today, and 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Edosomwan, [...]]]></description>
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