* Anti-smoking ban falters in Egypt Nov 19, 2009
Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam, has the government embarked on as challenging a national project: wiping out smoking in public places. Anyone who has ever spent any time in a Cairo taxicab, restaurant, office, lobby, coffeehouse, cafeteria or university, or even at the zoo, knows just how ubiquitous smoking is. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Antismoking fight proves a pyramid-size task Nov 17, 2009
CAIRO -- Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam, has the government embarked on as challenging a national project: wiping out smoking in public places ... CAIRO -- Perhaps not since Egypt built the great pyramids of Giza, or more recently tamed the Nile with the Aswan High Dam, has the government embarked on as challenging a national project: wiping out smoking in public places. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Africa: Giant Buys a Lamb Nov 9, 2009
Apart from the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, completed since 1956, which other important socio-economic project have the Russians done in Africa, including the Ajaokuta Steel Mill, uncompleted after 35 years [maybe not entirely their fault. Even the Japanese, if they come here warning us to be wary of the Chinese, we will drive them away, because we hear that they are yet to atone for the Rape of Nanking in 1937, or even to update their school textbooks and mention what their troops did in China in... (allAfrica.com)
Crazy, colourful Cairo Sep 8, 2009
Towered by the Hanging Church in the Coptic City built on pillars, this natural resource is so much engrained in Egyptian society that during the time of the Pharaohs crop yields were predicted and taxes were set according to the water level of the river, which has dropped dramatically with the building of the Aswan High Dam. Read about the city's mediaeval heart on Page two. (iAfrica.com)
Nile offers glimpses of ancient, modern Egypt Jun 29, 2009
The temple sits on the southern edge of Lake Nasser, the vast body of water (the world's largest artificial lake at more than 300 miles long) created with the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971. In the early morning light, I walked with scores of others through the sand toward the Great Temple of Abu Simbel and its four colossi. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ride like an Egyptian Jun 16, 2009
Don't bother: Aswan High Dam at Lake Nasser - congested parking and not much to see. It's more interesting to read about. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Fast Facts: Egypt Jun 4, 2009
The completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1971 and the resultant Lake Nasser have altered the time-honored place of the Nile River in the agriculture and ecology of Egypt. A rapidly growing population (the largest in the Arab world), limited arable land, and dependence on the Nile all continue to overtax resources and stress society. (CBS News)
Nubian memories Mar 26, 2009
Fifty years ago this year Egypt and Sudan asked for international help to save ancient sites threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. "It was going to submerge all the area of Nubia - monuments, people, the landscape, everything," says Costanza de Simone from the United Nations' culture agency, Unesco. (BBC News)
