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As of August 2017 Canada had several travel warnings on Egypt but pointed out that the Sharm El Sheikh resort area was excluded from the warning. [ 13 ] The Grand Egyptian Museum is a multi-million dollar museum, at the Giza Plateau which opened in 2023, [ 14 ] is a more recent investment into Egypt's Tourism Industry , and will require ...
Tiran (Arabic: جزيرة ثيران Jezîret Tīrān, [1] Jazīrat Tīrān), [2] and Yotvat Island, [3] [4] is a Saudi Arabian island that was formerly administered by Egypt. Sovereignty of the two Red Sea islands, Tiran and Sanafir , was ceded officially to Saudi Arabia as part of a maritime border agreement between Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Though Israel directly borders Egypt, most of the country’s major cities and tourists sites are a substantial distance away. Sharm el Sheikh is the closest, though it is still over two-and-a ...
The 2016-2017 Egyptian protests was a mass protest movement and political unrest movement against president Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and his reforms, government and many other core issues. The first and major issue was massive corruption and the selling of Tiran and Sanafir to Saudi Arabia. Thousands chanted slogans depicting the government and ...
On 4 February 1990, a bus carrying tourists in Egypt was attacked by members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Eleven people were killed, including nine Israelis, and 17 wounded (sixteen of whom were Israelis). This was the fourth attack on Israeli tourists in Egypt since the signing of the peace treaty. [78]
9 April – The Palm Sunday church bombings, twin suicide bombings that took place at St. George’s Church in Tanta, and Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Alexandria, killed at least 45 people and injured more than 100.
Law and crime Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of anti-government protesters during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. (The Guardian) Politics and elections Political appointments of Donald Trump The U.S. Senate confirms Donald Trump's appointment of his former opponents in the presidential primaries, neurosurgeon Ben Carson and Governor ...
As desperate Palestinians in sealed-off Gaza try to find refuge under Israel’s relentless bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' brutal Oct. 7 attack, some ask why neighboring Egypt and Jordan ...