Reinvention Of a Wasteland / Egypt's plans to make a desert habitable are blamed by many for a stagnant economy. By Ashraf Khalil, Chronicle Foreign Service Dec 25, 2000.

I travelled with TUI to visit Sharm El Sheikh and one of Egypt’s BEST all-inclusive spots for 2024 - here’s what I thought.

Seclusion has kept these desert gems, if not secret, then still wild. Egypt’s oases are time capsules of millions of years of human and natural history, from when whales had legs to the Roman ...

Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert: in the 4th century, St Anthony – later known as the "father of all monks" – went there to live in an empty tomb, and was tempted by the devil.