Posts from the ‘Egypt’ Category
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Some recent press articles
Saudi Arabia: Riyadh: Wadi Hanifah (Saudi Aramco World)
Jerusalem: 48 Hours in Jerusalem (The Independent)
Jerusalem: Light rail: other side of the tracks (BBC News)
Lebanon: Finding the essence (Saudi Aramco World)
Jordan: Rock till you drop (BMI Voyager)
Saudi Arabia: Strange encounter (BBC News)
UK: Traveller's Guide to the Cotswolds (The Independent)
Jordan: 48 Hours in Amman (The Independent)
Syria: Traveller's Guide (The Independent)
Jordan: Eco Tourism (EasyJet Inflight)
Sharjah: Emirate Ambitions (CNN Traveller)
Switzerland: Family Travel (The Independent)
Switzerland: Glacier Express (Oryx: Qatar Airways)
Oman: Gold, frankincense & myrrh (The Independent)
The Red Sea: A traveller's guide (The Independent)
Abu Dhabi: Dune Roaming (The Independent)
Israel: 48 Hours in Tel Aviv (The Independent)
Saudi Arabia: Bloom time in Taif (CNN Traveller)
Switzerland: Travel by train (CNN Traveller)
Middle East wildlife: Rx for Oryx (Saudi Aramco World)
Jordan: A Pilgrim's Progress (The Independent)
Syria: Foodie road to Damascus (The Observer)
Turkey: Following the Abraham Path (The Times)
Oman: In Search of Sindbad (Gulf Life)
Abu Dhabi: A Quiet Revolution (CNN Traveller)
Middle East: Walking for peace (Wanderlust)
Syria: Aleppo: Sound of the Souk (bmi Voyager)
Malta: Easy Rider on the Med (The Independent)
Switzerland: Zurich for less (British Airways High Life)
Jordan: A Vine Romance (CNN Traveller)
SEE MORE ARTICLES HERESome recent radio
BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent (Amman)
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent (Amman)
BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent (Jerusalem)
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent (Jerusalem)
BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent (Taif, Saudi Arabia – audio begins 0:18:15)
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent (Taif, Saudi Arabia - audio begins 0:04:45)
BBC World Service: From Our Own Correspondent (Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt - audio begins 0:00:28)
BBC Radio 4: Excess Baggage with Sandi Toksvig (studio guest discussing Gulf travel - audio begins 0:18:50)
BBC Radio 4: Traveller's Tree (report on homestay in Jordan – RealPlayer file, about 7 mins)A few travel links
Travel Blather Jeremy Head
Grumpy Traveller David Whitley
501 Places Andy Jarosz
Untraveller Maxine Sheppard
Gadling US travel blog
Strange Maps Frank Jacobs
Kim Wildman Travel blog
Michael Kerr Journalist
BOOT - Business of Online Travel Aussie blog
Alastair McKenzie's Travelling Online
Travel Rants Darren Cronian
Wanderlust UK travel magazine
GoWander.com From Wanderlust
Jordan Jubilee Jordan travel info
Nomads Travel Climbing and adventure
Grantourismo A 2010 travel blog
Travel Scribe by Gail Simmons
Part Time Travel Writer Jenny Woolf
The Irresponsible Traveller Nick Redmayne
Europe à la Carte Karen BryanA few Middle East links
Al Jazeera English
The National UAE
Al-Akhbar English Beirut
+972 Israel
Daily Star Lebanon
7iber.com Citizen journalism from Jordan
ArabianBusiness.com
The Kipp Report Middle East business
Juan Cole "Informed Comment"
Istanbul Calling News from Turkey
360east.com Jordan tech blog
And Far Away Jordan blog
The Black Iris of Jordan
Sustainable Jordan Eco blog
Green Prophet Israel/ME eco blog
Blogging Beirut Lebanon
Lisa Goldman Journalist
Israelitybites Israeli blog
Al-Bab Arab World gateway
Saudi Jeans blog
Bint Battuta Bahrain blog
Sultan Al-Qassemi UAE journalist
Creative Jordan Social networkRecent tweets
- Finally cracked it. Wear 1 layer too many; look tough; put hands in pockets like De Niro - every1 talks to u in Arabic 1st ;-) // 1 hour ago
- @mrdavidwhitley @501places @shaneyhudson Course. But that's the same with sightseeing. It's all about how the encounter has been set up. // 4 hours ago
- @mrdavidwhitley @shaneyhudson Dunno abt Thailand but most rural Jordanians I've met value (sensitively-done) tourism amazingly highly. // 4 hours ago
- @mrdavidwhitley Just being stupid for no reason. Sorry. // 22 hours ago
- @mrdavidwhitley It wasn't? // 22 hours ago
- @RetroJetGirl v welcome // 22 hours ago
- @mrdavidwhitley Petra qualifies. Non-Jordanian visitors outnumber Jordanians by some huge margin, despite 50JD ticket as against 1JD. // 22 hours ago
- In a 25rm (50bed) hotel that's 28 x 50 x 365 = 511,000JD to take a year off. No reception, no sales, just cooking & cleaning. End of tourism // 22 hours ago
- I'm hearing some hotels in Jordan are being taken off the radar: Libyan govt is offering 28JD/day per bed for a YEAR in advance, full board. // 22 hours ago
- Wowow “@AliDahmash: “@otahboub: Beautiful shot of the green hills of Kufr Rakeb in north Jordan via @arababah http://t.co/hFoEEY55 // 22 hours ago
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Recent Posts
- Libyans in Amman
- Grand Hotels of Egypt
- Power and responsibility
- Jerusalem in the snow
- Gospel truth
- Green green grass
- World first for Martin Randall?
- Room at the inn
- Tracks of my tears
- Tears of a stranger
- Get on the bus
- A minor gem
- News from the edge
- Small country, big mistake?
- Jordan off-off the beaten track
- Syria: the only way is up
- Wadi Rum gains World Heritage status
- Dignity departs
- Still not a correspondent
- Some Riyadh visuals
- From (Not) Our Own Correspondent
- No longer deserted
- A thing of beauty
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- From Black to Red
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