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After the tourists: Dreamaway’s stark collage of a desolate Sharm El-Sheikh

Omar Elkafrawy | Marouan Omara and Johanna Domke's doc offers strong commentary on desperate youth in an arid market

5 March 2019

Tough times by the sea | A portrait of Fayed’s local tourism economy

Mostafa Darwish | Workers and summergoers at Fayed resort discuss the impact of Egypt's economic issues on the season

5 August 2017

Lionel Messi arrives in Egypt for medical tourism campaign

Argentinian football star Lionel Messi arrived in Cairo Tuesday for a medical tourism campaign

21 February 2017

There’s no room at this hotel if you’re a woman

Heba Afify | Women in Egypt must convince not only their families but hotel managers of their right to travel without

20 September 2016

Egypt’s battered tourist industry anxiously awaits EgyptAir crash investigation results

Isabel Esterman | Egypt’s travel industry is watching anxiously as experts and officials air competing explanations for

26 May 2016

What’s in an island?

Heba Afify | Tiran and Sanafir transfer to Saudi is of little concern to their actual neighbors

1 May 2016

A year of trying to deal with things going wrong for the economy

Isabel Esterman | The year 2015 witnessed some major triumphs for President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his economic

29 December 2015

A year in economic data

Isabel Esterman | Egypt has seen some good economic news in 2015: overall economic growth measured at 4.2 percent for the

25 December 2015

Labor unrest from north to south

Jano Charbel | Thousands of workers across the country are protesting against what they call unfair employment

19 December 2015

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