Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd, has just released its new print directory, updating its listings for Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, and the surrounding areas.

Valid from June 2010 until June 2011, the new directory, offers the most comprehensive source for business listings in Egypt in both Arabic and English.

The directory features an alphabetical index, which makes it easy for users to choose the category that best describes the company, product, service, or brand for which they are looking.

The directory also covers Damietta, El Dakahleya, El Gharbeya, El Sharkeya, Ismaileya, Kaliobeya, Marina, Marsa Matrouh, Port Said, Suez, Aida, Al Alamein, El Heheira, El Hammam, El Monofeya, El Salloum, Kafr El Sheikh, Markia, Marbella, Mina, Ras El Bar, and Sidi Kreir.

Egypt Yellow Pages Ltd has placed 300,000 copies of the free directory in circulation. Users can order a free copy by dialing 19345.

For More info Please Visit: http://www.yellow.com.eg/

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Alexandria is to be Egypt’s first no smoking city, beginning with a ban on lighting up in government buildings. Within two years, the ban will be extended to include cafes.

Egyptians, the biggest Arab consumers of cigarettes, smoke some 19 billion cigarettes each year, prompting concerns for public health.

And Egypt is a nation of smokers with traditional shisha water pipes found in many coffee shops, and persuading Egyptians to quit will be a challenge.

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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 2,000-year-old granite statue of a Ptolemaic-era king at the temple of Taposiris Magna, west of the coastal city of Alexandria.

The head of the Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass, says the statue could belong to King Ptolemy IV.

The archeology team, led by Hawass and Dominican archeologist Kathleen Martinez, has spent the last five years trying to locate Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s final resting place.

The archeologists say they also have discovered the original entrance to the temple of Taposiris Magna on its western side.  They say there is evidence the entrance to the temple was lined with a series of sphinx statues similar to those of the pharaonic era.

VOA News

A conference on environmental security in the Arab world opens in Alexandria today, just days after an Egyptian minister warned that his country has fallen below the water poverty line and amid a government campaign to educate citizens on the economical use of water.

The conference, titled Scarce Water, Rising Water: Between Draughts and Flooding – Arab Policies to Meet Environmental Challenges, will address challenges ranging from rising sea levels to desertification, with a warning that the next regional wars will likely be over water resources.

The two-day conference will be hosted by the famed Alexandria Library (Bibliotheca Alexandrina) and based on the Arab Human Development Reports, which are written by Arab scholars and endorsed by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

The National

Wataniya Airways, Kuwait’s premium service airline, announced today that it will start a regular service to Alexandria, selected as the Capital of Arab Tourism for 2010, from June 1st. The new schedule will provide four flights a week on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Monday from Wataniya Airways Sheikh Saad Terminal to Alexandria’s Borg El Arab airport. Alexandria is Wataniya Airways’ tenth destination since the launch of its commercial operations in January 2009.

The city of Alexandria is one of the world’s most attractive cities for tourists because of its culture and close associations with some of history’s greatest civilizations, especially the Greek and Roman empires.

Alexandria is also distinguished with a mild climate both in the summer and winter seasons, in addition to its shores that extend along the Mediterranean coast,
Wataniya Airways’ services are timed to arrive in Alexandria at 10.30 in the morning, local time, giving guests plenty of time to arrive and enjoy the sites on the day of their arrival.

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A northern Egyptian town close to the seaside resort of Alexandria is earmarked for a large development aimed at increasing tourism.

The $4 million Marsa Matrouh development includes 29 projects to accommodate up to 30 million tourists, with hotels and recreation facilities such as safaris and tours of cultural landmarks, a university and a new Greek district complete with a plantation of olive trees, with plans to export its produce.

The district received over six million tourists during the busy summer season of June to September last year, thanks to its natural landscape, the turquoise-colored ocean and white silky sand.

Presently, Marsa Matrouth is inhabited by 500,000 living in simple brickhouses.

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Egyptian Tourism Minister, Zoheir Garranah, and Major General Adel Labib, Governor of Alexandria, declared the initiation of the ceremonial festivals for the selection of Alexandria as the Capital of Arab Tourism for the year 2010 during the press conference that was held on March 17th at that city. Twelve other Arab cities applied for the competition.

Alexandria is a city with a rich history of several civilizations, such as Greek, Roman, Coptic, and Islamic, making it a city abounded with, and characterized by many of the unique monumental, and cultural sites, such as Pompey’s Pillar (Amoud Al-Swary), the Catacombs of Kom Al Shoqqafa, the Fort of Qaitbay, the Ancient Roman Amphitheatre, the Greco-Romanian Museum, and the Royal Jewelry Museum. Alexandria is also famous for many of the religious sites, such as El-Mursi Abul Abbas Mosque, and Saint Mark’s Church.

The city is also distinguished with a mild climate both in the summer and winter seasons, in addition to its shores that extend along the Mediterranean seacoast.

Additionally, Alexandria is home to one of the most important cultural edifices in the Arab World. It is the Library of Alexandria that includes a large number of unique manuscripts and reference books in all domains and sciences.

Furthermore, it is rich in various features of tourism such as cultural and entertainment events, conferences, festivals, exhibitions, and maritime tourism, in addition to other touristic outlines that help in attracting different classes of tourists.

The Egyptian Tourism Authority is preparing a special guide for Alexandria, which will be published in March 2010, in both Arabic and English Languages. The guide will be distributed to different Arab and foreign Embassies, at the Egyptian airports, as well as to the travel agencies, tour operators in the Arab countries, aviation companies and hotels. Furthermore, the guide will be distributed to the Egyptian Embassies abroad, especially in the Arab countries. Additionally, it will also be distributed in events organized by the Ministry of Tourism and the Egyptian Tourism Authority in the Arab Countries.

In addition, a monthly leaflet will be published to include all the different artistic, cultural and touristic activities and festivals that will be implemented during the month to be distributed to the same above mentioned network of distribution of the guide.

Moreover, the Tourism Authority is preparing to launch a web site associated with the city of Alexandria through which all information on activities will be sighted.

The Egyptian Tourism Authority will also lead an advertising and public relations campaign aimed at the Arab market in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, The Emirates, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Libya, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, through various media.

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Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya.

The 383-sq km (150-square-mile) reserve, mostly in the water in the Gulf of el-Salloum, is Egypt’s 28th nature protectorate, but its first on the Mediterranean.

The protectorate contains more than 160 migratory and local bird species, about 30 reptile and amphibian species and 10,000 to 12,000 marine species. Its creation should encourage scientific research on biological diversity in Egypt, he said.

Reuters

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Four people were killed and more than 50 hurt as bad weather wreaked havoc across Egypt, pelting the capital with a freak hail storm and smashing a luxury liner into a pier, officials and media said Friday.

In the northern Mediterranean city of Alexandria, waves as high as a two-storey building pounded the coast, media reports said.

Thursday evening’s hail storm in Cairo, the first in many years, caused mayhem in the capital, snarling traffic and bringing the sprawling city to a virtual standstill.

Cars crawled on the slippery roads as lightning periodically lit up the drenched streets.

Tourists near the Giza Pyramids, on the outskirts of the capital, ducked for cover from the frozen, marble-sized pellets.

In Alexandria, authorities closed down ports after winds reached 30 knots (55.5 kilometres an hour) and waves six-metre (19-feet) high pounded the shore, the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm reported.

A European luxury cruise ship smashed into a pier in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh early morning as the bad weather continued overnight into Friday, killing three sailors and injuring four tourists, maritime officials said.

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British American Tobacco, Egypt (BAT), together with the Egyptian Hotel Association (EHA) in Alexandria and Hurghada, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with immediate effect, aimed at providing hotel guests in both cities with designated non-smoking and smoking areas.

The initiative has been developed under the framework of BAT’s global “Respecting Choices” program, which ensures that both non-smoking and smoking customers are equally catered to through a mutually beneficial solution.

Through this project, clear signage will be available in outlets directing both non-smokers and smokers to their respective areas.

The “Respecting Choices” project targets ETS through two methods: Segregation, which features both smoking and non-smoking areas in the same room, using airflow to limit the spread of smoke; and Separation, which features smoking rooms or lounges, using walls along with airflow techniques to prevent the smoke from spreading.

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