FILE PHOTO: A general view shows part of the exterior of St. Catherine's monastery in south Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo FILE PHOTO ...
(Bahira AMIN/AFP/AFP) Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction ...
In the south of the Sinai Peninsula, the desert reveals one of its most spectacular landscapes. Between pale mineral mountains and vast silent expanses, the village of Saint Catherine is about to ...
One of the earliest unmistakable images of a state projecting power outside its heartland consider a rock carving in southwestern Sinai, dated to about 3000 B.C., which portrays power projected in a ...
ST. CATHERINE, Egypt -- In the Bible, Moses climbs Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. But he was the chosen one, and I am a mere mortal. Divine intervention seemed unlikely as I stood at the ...
Mourad Mwafi has been in charge of North Sinai, Egypt’s eastern frontier governorate, for only the past 2½ months. But the broad-shouldered official is comfortable in his new role. He knows the turf ...
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship ...
On Mount Sinai in the Saint Catherine valley, hotels are under construction as part of Egypt's new tourism megaproject — Bahira AMIN Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic ...