Al-Ahram Weekly

Jumping the gun

Carefully mapped and recently-restored with painstaking care, sites along the route of the Holy Family in Egypt opened to great fanfare almost two months ago. But is Egypt really ready for religious tourism? asks Rehab Saad

Planet Cairo
As Egypt widens its arms to an ever-growing menagerie of travellers, Cairo may not be the only place they're headed. Ahmed Sami takes the ring road to the new satellite cities surrounding Mother Cairo