Travel to Egypt and Israel :

Demographics of Jordan
Demographics of Jordan Most Jordanians are primarily of indigenous Levantine Semitic stock, admixed with various other peoples who have through its history come to conquer or settle the area - principally Arabians (also a Semitic people) during the Islamic expansionism that brought Arab culture, language and the Muslim faith. There are...

Getting Around in Amman
Getting Around in Amman Amman is a relatively small city, and getting around is easy. Hotels, restaurants and tourist attractions are well known and could be reached easily by either taxis, which are metered and inexpensive, or by private transportation. Amman was originally built on seven hills, called Jabals (the Arabic word...

Get around in Cario
Get around in Cario The American University in Cairo has made a good map of Cairo . It is a must-have when you want to get around on your own. CAIRO A-Z from The Palm Press offers a more detailed city map in 300 pages. By metro Cairo has the only metro...

Politics of Egypt
Politics of Egypt Constitution The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt was approved by referendum in 1970 and amended in 1980 and 2005. The Constitution of the Arab Republic of Egypt declares Egypt to be a 'democratic and socialist republic', operating under a 'multiparty system' semi-presidential system. The national government of Egypt...

Districts of Cairo
Districts of Cairo Agouza Abbassia Ain Shams Bulaq Dokki Downtown Cairo El-Manial El-Marg El-Quba El-Tagamu El Khames Embaba | Garden City Giza Haram Heliopolis Islamic Cairo Kerdasa Maadi Mataria Mohandessin Muqatam Nasr...

Noubarya: Egypt
Noubarya: Egypt Noubarya is a town in Egypt, approximately 100 miles north of Cairo. The settlement was founded in 1987 as part of an irrigation scheme using water from the Nile....

History of Tel Aviv
History of Tel Aviv The settlement in the area of modern southern Tel Aviv (the neighbourhoods of Neve Shalom and Neve Tsedek) was started in the 1880s as a substitute for the rather expensive Arab neighbourhoods of Jaffa. However the city of Tel Aviv itself was established only in 1909 as...

Sightseeing in Tel Aviv
Sightseeing in Tel Aviv The Tel Aviv-Jaffa city area is a long, narrow strip along the seashore. Jaffa (locally called, and written, Yafo) is located south of the modern city, while Ramat Aviv, home of Tel Aviv University and the extensive Eretz Israel Museum, is located on the outskirts of north...

History of Kerak
History of Kerak It is given various names in the Old Testament - Kir Hareseth, Kir Heres, Kir of Moab - and was certainly one of the chief cities of the kingdom of Moab. The chief Biblical reference to it occurs in 2Ki.3, when Mesha was king of Moab, Jehoram king...

History of Sahab
History of Sahab The earliest inhabitants in Sahab have immigrated mostly from Egypt during the era of the Ottoman Empire in the 1850s. Two major clans first inhabited the city: Zyood, and Maharmeh. A large number of Palestinian refugees account from almost half of the city's population. Like many cities in Jordan,...

Culture of Israel
Culture of Israel The culture of Israel, also called "Israeli culture", is inseparable from long history of Judaism and Jewish history which preceded it (i.e. dated earlier than the Israeli Declaration of Independence, on May 14, 1948). However, this article concerns only the cultural aspects of the modern Israeli state. Background With a...

Towns and cities in Red Sea
Towns and cities in Red Sea Towns and cities on the Red Sea coast include: Assab , Massawa , Hala'ib , Marsa Alam, Port Sudan , Port Safaga , Hurghada , El Suweis , Sharm el Sheikh , Dahab , Eilat , Aqaba...

Tourism in Red Sea
Tourism in Red Sea The sea is known for its spectacular dive sites such as Ras Mohammed, SS Thistlegorm (ship wreck), Elphinstone, The Brothers and Rocky Island in Egypt, and less known sites in Sudan such as Sanganeb, Abington, Angarosh and Shaab Rumi (see photo above). The Red Sea was "discovered" as...

Nag Hammâdi: Egypt
Nag Hammâdi: Egypt Nag Hammâdi is a village in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 225 kilometres north-west of Aswan with some 30,000 citizens. It is mostly a peasant area where goods such as sugar and aluminium are produced. Nag Hammadi is best known for being the...

Suez: Egypt
Suez: Egypt Suez is a port town (population ca. 460,000) in Egypt, located on the Gulf of Suez, near the mouth of the Suez Canal. The town was utterly destroyed and deserted following the Second Arab-Israeli War in 1967. It was rebuilt after the reopening of the canal in 1975....