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Egypt and Egyptian Links
Peltours - tours of Egypt and the Red Sea
Cleopatra's Needle Egyptian monument in London
Go Egypt.org Egypt tours, cruises, Vacation and hotels in Egypt and rich information about Egyptian history, visa, airlines, great shopping in Egypt and a useful links about Egyptians and tours to Egypt we also offer trips to Israel and Jordan.
Magical Egypt a symbolist tour
Isis Collection designs on T-shirts, totebags, mugs, and jewelry
For items of an ancient Egyptian theme, it's good to have a look around the British Museum Shop
It's a curious thing, but Egypt enjoys a remarkable reputation largely because of Ancient Egypt and the legends and magic of Ancient Egypt. Modern Egypt has difficulty living up to the legends of Ancient Egypt. It's not got the Pharaohs anymore, but is instead ruled over by a fanatical religious government that behaves in a rather odd way. Even according to the reasonably balanced Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Egypt , "Religious freedom in Egypt is hampered to varying degrees by discriminatory and restrictive government policies". Besides being absurdly biased against Bahá'í , and Humanists, Atheists, and Jedi, it's also against the country's original belief-system that put Ancient Egypt on the map in the first place! Also see http://forum.egypt.com/enforum/news-f183/hrw-condemns-egypt-over-religious-affiliation-government-documents-273.html . The problems of Modern Egypt were originally noticed with some seriously questionable prison population figures, and then later with the hog holocaust as per www.toxicdrums.com/killing-pigs-in-egypt.html . Clearly there is something wrong with the place! Well it's not too late for the government to reform and start getting things right. Otherwise, it could lose the country's reputation earned over the millennia, and the government of Modern Egypt might start to be regarded as an impostor regime, no better than some of the United States imposed puppet-state regimes, or like the cultural vandalism upon Tibet committed by China.
Update 2009/08 on the hog holocaust in Egypt: Now that the government of Egypt have exterminated all pigs (not that they were anything to do with swine flu), minoritised persecuted religious minorities are unable to keep pigs which kept the organic waste down, so now what is there: RATS! This is not the first time Egypt has been smote by cause and effect with consequences stacking up. What about the Ten Plagues of Egypt?!