Born in Cairo in 1977 to second-generation Nubian Cairenes, the journalist and novelist Samar Nour experienced things ...

The original Aswan Dam was built and completed by the British in 1902 about four miles downstream from where the Aswan High Dam is located today.

Viking today announced that the 82-guest Viking Thoth was floated out, marking a construction milestone and the first time ...

After a dream hiking trip in the Himalayas last month I was brought swiftly back to earth by the tricky issue of tipping. How ...

The next day, we went to Giza to see the pyramids as well as the Sphinx. It was so surreal to be in the vicinity of both of ...

In his review of “The Determined Spy,” Philip Terzian refers to the “newly nationalized Suez Canal” (Spring Books, April 5). Strictly speaking, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized ...

especially its expected effects on the Roseires Dam in Sudan and the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, he said. Another challenge Halima pinpointed is the common danger that the two countries face in the ...

Although Egypt and the US had entered into talks in November 1955 on American financing for the Aswan Dam to be constructed on the Nile, the US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles withdrew any ...

Eerything you need to know about the Temple of Dendur, where guests at Monday's Met Gala will dine and celebrate.

viewing ancient artifacts and temples rescued from the waters of Lake Nasser when Egypt’s Aswan High Dam was built during the 1960s and ’70s. Later, I worked as a journalist in Khartoum ...

It was given by Egypt in gratitude for Spain’s help saving ancient Nubian sites during the construction of the Aswan Dam. Every day at dusk, many people gather here, some with drinks in hand ...