The twin streams of Egypt's history converge just below the Delta at Cairo, where the greatest city in the Islamic ... More
LUXOR has been a tourist mecca ever since Nile steamers began calling in the nineteenth century to view the remains of ... More
Unlike Port Said and Ismailiya, SUEZ (Es-Suweis in Arabic) has a history long predating the Canal, going back to Ptolemaic ... More
Founded at the start of the canal excavations, PORT SAID (Bur Said in Arabic) was by the late nineteenth century a major ... More
Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter-day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on ... More
Before the Europeans came, Honolulu was insignificant; soon so many foreign ships were frequenting its waters that it had ... More
New York City, arguably the world's most vibrant and sprawling metropolis, occupies five boroughs, each with its own ... More