How could the City of the Dead be a tourist attraction? Mohamed El-Hebeishy is bold enough to try to find out

Although travellers nowadays mainly resort to the Internet for travel information and advice, guidebooks still attract quite a large number of tourists as they are well-researched, well-written, and can be taken wherever you go. The proof that guidebooks are still in fashion is that hundreds of guidebooks are still printed and reprinted every year dealing with various topics of touristic interest...

Although Petra is the most celebrated and attractive site in Jordan, Aqaba is right behind. Mahmoud Bakr visits the city and monitors its emergence as a major tourist destination

Egypt is considered the most suitable destination worldwide for a religious tourist visit of one of the most sacred relics of Christianity -- the sites visited by the Holy Family during their flight into Egypt...

Desolate. This is the feeling Dush casts on its visitors. Looking at the horizon, it is very difficult to imagine how this barren land was once a bustling border town known as Kysis. Mohamed El-Hebeishy discovers one of the last tourist frontiers.