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Topic: Luxor

May 18, 2013
5:06 pm

The mother of 24-year-old school teacher Dimyana Abdel-Nour, who is accused of insulting Islam while teaching fourth graders history of religions, talks about her daughter in her home in southern Egypt's ancient city of Luxor, Egypt, Thursday, May 16, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Ibrahim Zayed)

Egyptians face growing threat of blasphemy charges

Copts, Christians of the Nile Valley, increasingly targeted since Cairo criminalized religious slander in December

May 11, 2013
2:14 pm

An illustrative photo of Egyptian protesters chanting anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Prosecutor frees prominent Egyptian youth activist

Ahmed Maher was arrested for ‘incitement’ a few days after he criticized President Morsi’s Islamist party on his movement’s website

May 11, 2013
4:15 am

An illustrative photo of Egyptian protesters chanting anti Muslim Brotherhood slogans outside the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, in December 2012. (photo credit: AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

Prominent youth activist detained in Egypt

Ahmed Maher arrested for ‘incitement’ a few days after he criticized President Morsi’s Islamist party on his movement’s website

May 11, 2013
1:09 am

An illustrative photo of young boys attending the Friday noon prayer in Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo, Egypt. (photo credit: AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Amnesty calls for release of Egyptian Copt

24-year-old female schoolteacher held for contempt of Islam near Luxor

April 21, 2013
11:06 pm

A hot-air balloon flies over the city of Luxor, Egypt, 2012. (photo credit: AP/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt resumes hot-air balloon sightseeing, following deadly crash

Tourists in Luxor can once again view ancient tombs, Valley of the Kings from the air

March 31, 2013
11:52 pm

Iranians wishing to tour Egypt have been restricted to visits to Red Sea resorts and boat rides on the Nile, with Cairo remaining off-bounds for fear of uninvited Shi'ite influence. (photo credit: CC-BY plusgood, Flickr.com)

Over 50 Iranians head to Egypt via reopened route

Visitors’ movements will be restricted due to objections from ultraconservative Sunni Muslims to ‘heretical’ Shi’ite tourism

By Haggag Salama

March 28, 2013
11:12 pm

Egypt's minister of tourism, Hesham Zaazoua, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt Thursday, March 28, 2013 (photocredit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

Egypt’s tourism minister says Iranians pose no risk

Visitors from the Islamic Republic were banned for more than three decades; now Cairo hopes they’ll help the flagging economy

By Mariam Ezzat

February 27, 2013
11:44 pm

Flowers are laid by Japanese travel agent Okumura Hatsuko and Luxor's mayor Ezzat Saad, both unseen, to pay respect to Japanese tourists that died from a hot air balloon accident, in Luxor, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013(photo credit: AP/ Nasser Nasser)

Balloon disaster sinks tourism in already hurting town

Luxor, in southern Egypt, depends on visitors to drive economy; anger voiced at Morsi for not commenting on tragedy

By MAGGIE MICHAEL

February 26, 2013
9:00 am

Illustrative photo of hot air balloons over Luxor, Egypt (photo credit: CC BY OsvaldoROVE/Flickr)

Hot air balloon crash in Egypt kills 18 foreign tourists

Fire and explosion sent balloon plummeting from the sky west of Luxor, official says

By Haggag Salama

October 18, 2012
1:11 am

12-year-old Egyptian girl punished for not wearing a veil, father says

Teacher cut off girl’s hair, sent her away for being ‘shameful’

By Haggag Salama

August 20, 2012
9:12 am

Supporters of Salafi presidential candidate Hazem Abu-Ismail in Cairo (photo credit: AP/Amr Nabil)

Former Islamist Egyptian lawmaker’s sons detained for antiquity theft

Arrest is third scandal to hit the Salafi Nour Party coalition’s members

August 4, 2012
1:39 am

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)

Morsi aims to bring tourists back to Egypt

Security and religious extremism seen as greatest threats to economic revival