Egypt

Ready for Elijah

Egypt’s government has just spent millions of dollars restoring Alexandria’s main Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue

What would you like, Egyptian or Philistine ?

Yeast residue on 5000-year-old pottery vessels used to reproduce ancient strains of beer

In the 1950s, Eilat was a small, isolated frontier settlement on Israel’s southernmost tip, developing into a town only in the 1960s. After the peace accords with Egypt, it was once again Israel’s only outlet to the Red Sea, and hotel tourism followed apace. Eilat in 2012

Eilat’s Treasures

Six years before the port of Eilat opened in 1956, a dilapidated ship loaded with Yemenite Jewry’s cultural heritage anchored...

Harbinger of nationalism. Yaqub James Sanua

Egypt’s Jewish Molière

Banished from Egypt time and again for promoting nationalism and exposing government corruption, James Sanua harnessed humor and drama to...

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