On the night of 19 April, the town of St Catherine's, the historical and geographical heart of the Sinai Peninsula, faced a challenge unprecedented in its well-documented history of over 1,400 years.
There was a failed armed attempt to penetrate the (...)
Looking at the administrative map of the Sinai Peninsula, one finds lines running across sand and mountains. Those lines form polygons that represent regional (governorate) and municipal boundaries. The administrative lines do not follow the (...)
The recently signed Sinai agreements between the governments of the Arab Republic of Egypt and Kingdom Saudi Arabia put the kingdom at the investment forefront in the peninsula for the first time in history.
Among the agreements are the newly (...)
Tapping strategic and local Sinai groundwater reservoirs for development purposes historically stood divided between traditional Bedouin and military use until the late 1970s. Sinai is the peace front of the Middle East, where water plays a major (...)
Travelling through the Sinai Peninsula after the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel on 26 March 1979, one would cross temporary withdrawal lines. The land was changing hands. The Israeli-occupied Sinai was being handed back to Egypt.
Al-Arish, (...)
When it comes to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, there is little agreement and much argument among scholars and policy-makers. Disagreements come to the fore as regional struggles develop.
Sinai is well known to academics as being simultaneously positioned (...)
A community response and essential maps
The outline of Rugum Plan is based on the Gebaliya "people of the mountains" Bedouin community response, led by tourism business leaders, to the trekking accident of the Egyptian tourists in the vicinity of (...)
By Ahmed Shams, PhD
Changing weather and long treks
"The sun had been shining as if [it was] summertime; it turned hot! We decided to follow Wadi Thabt, Wadi Qasuriya, the Wadi Junction, and Wadi Rimhan instead of Wadi Tarfaa, towards the abandoned (...)
CAIRO: Protesters remained camped out in Tahrir Square through the early hours of Sunday, in defiance of curfew and a violent crackdown by military police the previous night.
By Saturday afternoon, more than a thousand protesters were back in (...)