CAIRO (AP) -- A group of hardline Islamists angered by the Egyptian government's push to improve ties with Tehran threw rocks and tried to storm the residence of Iran's top diplomat in Cairo on Friday. Although only about 40 people took part in the demonstration, it underscored deep suspicions many Egyptians have toward their country's rapprochement ...

[caption id="attachment_30920" align="alignright" width="210"] Egypt's minister of tourism, Hisham Zazou, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at his office in Cairo, Egypt[/caption] Tourism minister tries to allay fears of 'Shia infiltration' as a new Iranian tour group visits Egypt amid their depressingtourism downturn The flow ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- Several dozen Iranian tourists touched down in an ancient Egyptian city on Friday, the first time Iranians were back in Egypt following a two months' interruption in the warming-up of ties between the two nations. The group of 132 Iranians was greeted with tight security measures meant for their own protection, an Egyptian security ...

Egypts Culture, Information and Tourism Committee recently witnessed a series of disagreements between MPs about the issue of Iranian tourism in Egypt, with altercations breaking out between Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and Al-Wasat MPs on one side, and Al-Nour MPs on the other. Altercations began after Al-Nour party MP Muhammad Hanafi said that ...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) -- More than 50 Iranian tourists visited sites in southern Egypt on Sunday amid tight security as part of a bilateral tourism promotion deal that has generated some controversy. The tourists, who according to a security official arrived on some of the first commercial flights between the two countries in three decades, will be restricted ...

Minister of Tourism Hesham Zaazou said that he is aiming to attract 200,000 Iranian tourists per year to guarantee $250m annually in revenues. Egypt should take a piece of this pie, he said, according to Gulf News, during a press conference in Dubai on Saturday ahead of the Arabian Tourism Market (ATM) event. He added, however, that Iranians will ...

Strong Egypt Partyfounder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh says tourists from predominantly Shia Iran pose no threat to Egypt Egyptians should not feel threatened by tourists from Iran, Strong Egypt Party founder Abdel-Moneim Abul-Fotouh has said."Around 1900 Israelis have visited Egypt over the past few days and nobody has objected," Abul-Fotouh, a former ...

Cairo,Asharq Al-AwsatThe Egyptian minister of tourism, Hisham Zazou, called on Sunday for Iranian tourists to return to Egypt. This call comes after a sudden reversal of IranianEgyptian tourism cooperation. On March 30, the Egyptian government decided to allow the resumption of commercial flights from Iran. Dr. Zazou toldAsharq Al-Awsatat the time ...

(Reuters) - Egypt has halted commercial flights from Shi'ite powerIranuntil mid-June, days after the first such flight in 34 years between the countries provoked protests from hardline Sunni Islamists in Cairo. That first commercial flight, from Cairo to Tehran, took off on March 30 in the latest step towards normalising ties broken after the 1979 ...