[6 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]
Kempinski Nile Hotel Celebrating Ramadan

Celebrating its first Ramadan since its opening earlier this month, the Kempinski Nile Hotel is serving up a bouquet of dining options, designed to appeal to both group and private dining requirements.

With its location on the Nile offering panoramic city views, the hotel provides the ideal environment to enjoy authentic Arabian hospitality, said general manager, Fuat Koroglu: “Both hotel guests and local residents can share Iftar or Sohor at our restaurants, either at the atmospheric Osmanly restaurant, our convivial Blue brasserie, or within a dedicated private dining outlet

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Dining, Headline, Hotels »

[6 Aug 2010 | One Comment | ]
Kempinski Nile Hotel Celebrating Ramadan

Celebrating its first Ramadan since its opening earlier this month, the Kempinski Nile Hotel is serving up a bouquet of dining options, designed to appeal to both group and private dining requirements.

With its location on the Nile offering panoramic city views, the hotel provides the ideal environment to enjoy authentic Arabian hospitality, said general manager, Fuat Koroglu: “Both hotel guests and local residents can share Iftar or Sohor at our restaurants, either at the atmospheric Osmanly restaurant, our convivial Blue brasserie, or within a dedicated private dining outlet

Discoveries, Headline, News, Uncategorized »

[20 Jul 2010 | One Comment | ]
Ramesses II temple unearthed in Upper Egypt

Excavations in Upper Egypt’s Ehnasia archaeological area in Beni Sueif recently uncovered the remains of a 3,000 year old temple dating from the reign of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II.

Inside the remains of this temple, excavators uncovered ten cartouches of Ramesses II and beneath them a relief saying that the ruler had built this temple for himself in Ehnasia,” said the head of Egypt’s Supreme Archaeology’s Pharaonic Section, Sabri Abdel Aziz in a statement on Thursday.

Headline, News »

[30 Jun 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
The National Circus reborn

A new red and blue tent, bright colors and huge theater lights are some of the changes introduced by renovations to the National Circus in Agouza, soon to be re-opened with the performance “The Dream.”

Events, Featured »

[26 Jun 2010 | One Comment | ]
Ahlan wa Sahlan Belly Dance Festival

Now in Egypt Ahlan Wa Sahlan Belly Dance festival organized by Raqia Hassan is held in Egypt from June 27th till July 3rd at the Mena House Oberoi.

Ecotourism, Headline, News »

[25 Jun 2010 | No Comment | ]
Platforms not to blame for oil spill in Red Sea

An oil spill polluting part of Egypt’s Red Sea coast was not caused by any of the oil platforms operating in the area.
Earlier this month, officials in the Red Sea resort of Hurghada discovered the oil spill and said it had polluted parts of a 20-km (12-mile) stretch of coastline including several tourist locations. All 188 oil platforms in the Gulf of Suez area were “totally innocent of any oil spill” that had reached the coast at Hurghada, the newspaper al-Akhbar quoted Fahmy as saying. He said he had received a technical report on the oil spill on Thursday that indicated it might have been caused by water used by an oil tanker to wash out its tanks