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African nations gear up to polish image at Dubai Expo

For a week and a half, Gazans have taken cover in their stairwells and other parts of the house, eating canned foods and hoping they can run out in time — if an airstrike warning comes.

Palestinian children walk past the rubble of a house hit by Israeli airstrikes this week in Beit Lahyia in the northern Gaza Strip. Image: Hatem Moussa/AP These days, when Jamal al-Shareef, his wife or any of his six children need to go to the kitchen of their home in Jabalia, north of Gaza City, they plan when to do so as a family. The kitchen is on a side of the house that faces east, toward the Gazan border — and shellfire from the Israeli military. It feels too exposed to let any one of t...

African nations are attending this year's Dubai Expo 2020 in force, hoping to project an image of a modern and ambitious continent and shed stereotypes of conflict and underdevelopment. The six-month mega-event, delayed by the Covid pandemic, is a milestone for the wealthy Gulf emirate. It has spent some $8.2 billion transforming a barren stretch on the outskirts of the city into an eye-popping site bristling with high-tech pavilions. As the...

What to do in Egypt on vacation? Egypt is famous for its pyramids, and its pharaohs known to the world like Cleopatra, Tutankhamun etc. We also think of a Nile River Cruise, this majestic river, which is the longest in the world with the Amazon. It is an extraordinary country for its culture, its landscapes, its monuments. There are many organized Egypt tours, stays offered at very low rates to get to Egypt. However, one can also get to the country by traveling independently. It is the most au...

A Guide to a Luxury Trip to Egypt April 12, 2021 first civilizations greatness are still particularly numerous and continue to surprise us with their majesty. We invite you to discover the most beautiful of them and the surroundings in which they are located. Through the authentic Egypt, far from mass tourism. During this luxury trip to Egypt, you will find the most beautiful sites, starting from a cruise on the Nile aboard a magnificent yacht with more than 32 rooms, to ...

    Tourism Ireland’s annual Global Greening initiative has gone from strength to strength – from its beginning back in 2010, when just the Sydney Opera House and the Sky Tower in Auckland went green, to this year, which will be the biggest ever Global Greening.     From Rome to Rio and from London to Las Vegas, a host of famous buildings and sites around the world will be illuminated in green to mark St Patrick’s Day. Iconic buildings include the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Niagara Falls,...

Cairo: The Arab world has expressed overwhelming jubilation as the UAE made history with its Hope probe entering the Mars orbit. The UAE became the first Arab country to reach the Red Planet Tuesday when the orbiter successfully landed at the plane after a seven-month journey. In a gesture of celebration, the Cairo Tower, a Nile-side landmark, Tuesday night lit up in red displaying the phrase the “Hope probe” in Arabic. Egyptian media, meanwhile, gave massive coverage of the historic event ...

Five Egyptian architects win the Tamayouz Excellence Award - Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020 By Sponsor| Aerial shot showing the dialogue between the Egyptian Museum and Cairo Tower Tamayouz Excellence Award  has announced the winners of its Rifat Chadirji Prize 2020, an annual thematic prize named after the prolific Iraqi architect and academic Dr. Rifat Chadirji, is a thematic international prize that seeks designs responding to local challenges. The prize, which is part of Tamayouz’s program o...

You had tens of thousands in the street. there was absolutely nothing on state tv, not even one mention and then once it turns out the situation wasnt going to go away. they eventually switched to two shots. one is a nice beautiful picture of the nile with a bridge and the cairo tower in the background and the other shot is directly from the opposite -- underneath the offices which is near the bridge with three tanks and no people. so whenever you had thousands of people in tahrir square, those ...