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Enclosed by the Suez Canal and bordering Gaza and Israel, Egypt’s rugged Sinai Peninsula has been the cornerstone of the Egyptian–Israeli peace accords, yet its internal politics and security have remained largely under media blackout. While the international press descended on the capital Cairo in January 2011, Sinai’s armed rebellion was ignored. The regime lost control of the peninsula in a matter of days and, since then, unprecedented chaos has reigned and the Islamist insurgency has gathered pace. In this crucial analysis, Mohannad Sabry argues that Egypt's shortsighted security approach has continually proven to be a failure. Decades of flawed policies have exacerbated immense social and economic problems, and maintained a superficial stability under which arms trafficking, the smuggling tunnels, and militancy could silently thrive―and finally prevail following the overthrow of Mubarak.Sinai is vital reading for scholars, journalists, policy makers, and all those concerned by the plunge of one of the Middle East's most critical regions into turmoil.

Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space. In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex—and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible. Sinai Tapestry is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic.

Sinai is now one of the world's most popular diving destinations, and in Sharm el-Sheikh alone an average of more than one thousand dives are made every day - but mainly on just one tenth of the dive sites. Now here is a real diving atlas that has been developed through more than ten years of diving experience, and which illustrates clearly the topography of all major dive sites of south Sinai, and their secrets. A must for all Red Sea divers.

Updated and expended 2nd edition! See routes in Google Earth and Google Maps: www.sinaitrekkingandsafari.com The only guidebook to Sinai covering all the main trekking and safari routes – from coast to coast and to the southernmost tip! · 26 treks, 4 off-road circuits, over 100 maps and 500 GPS waypoints! · Alternative routes explained - there is always more than one way to get from A to B! · Elevations of important waypoints marked on maps - see how tough a climb is, work out approximate elevation gain and loss. PLUS notes on culture, history and nature with illustrations; useful Arabic expressions for trekkers; catalogue of main places of interest with descriptions, photos (BW) and maps. This guidebook is an original work based on research which started in 2005. An important milestone was the “Discover Sinai” publication in 2009, followed by a little trekking guide with the highlights in 2011, and now the complete route guide is here. Discover a fascinating world of immense natural beauty and unique desert cultures – discover Sinai!

This beautifully written and illustrated book evokes the expanse of a unique landscape stretching from the mystic loneliness of the desert to the fabulous magnificence of the coral reefs. The variety of visual impressions compliment an informative text that invites the reader to follow in the author's footsteps.

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Sinai’s allure is legendary. Its spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna, and unique history, the store of centuries, have long held sway in the imagination of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula’s south provide the fertile soil that feeds some of Egypt’s highest diversity of plants, while foxes, vipers, lizards, and tortoises are just some of the animals that make their home in the north, which is characterized by lagoons and vast dunes of soft sand. Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness transports us to the haunting grandeur of this peninsula with 150 breathtaking full-color photographs. Omar Attum’s discerning eye shows us blood-red mountains, animals in natural repose and habitat, solitary trees and flowers, and fugitive strips of water, conveying stark beauty and enormous vulnerability, an abundance of life yet utter, devastating peace. The photographs are accompanied by an evocative introduction by Attum to Sinai’s wildlife and landscape.

The Sinai Peninsula - the desert of the exodus from Egypt and land of God's revelation to Moses - is the much fought-over land bridge between Asia and Africa. For thousands of years its turquoise and copper deposits attracted miners and metalworkers from Asia and Africa, who often fought for the valuable ores and minerals. In modern times, the strategic importance of the land bridge, the Suez Canal and the oilfields have, time and time again, turned the romantic landscapes of Sinai into a battlefield - and today the skeletons of modern armoured cars lie beside the ruins an rock drawings of ancient Pharaonic Egypt, of Nabataeans and Romans, and along the old Christian and Moslem pilgrim routes. Sinai, with its three areas that are geographically and geologically totally different. In the south, the Central Plateau breaks off in a steep precipice - and from here there is a magnificent view of the majestic granite mountains of southern Sinai, among them Gebel Musa, the 'Mount of God', the traditional place of the revelation to Moses. The middle of the 19th century saw the beginnings of real scientific exploration of the Sinai. It was another 70 years before a large-scale modern archaeological and archaeo-metallurgical exploration of central and southern Sinai could be undertaken by the 'Arabah Expedition' of Beno Rothenberg in 1967. The new research project, carried out over more than ten years, resulted in a completely new picture of the history of Sinai. The present volume not only shows the exciting beauty of Sinai - as seen through the eyes of the photographer H. Weyer - geography, geology, flora and fauna - the dramatic historical events and developments that have taken place in the Sinai peninsula. The full story of Sinai, from the Early Stone Age to the last Sinai war in 1973, is here told.

Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space. In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex—and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible. Sinai Tapestry is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic.

Sinai’s allure is legendary. Its spectacular landscapes, thriving flora and fauna, and unique history, the store of centuries, have long held sway in the imagination of millions. The high mountains and wadis of the peninsula’s south provide the fertile soil that feeds some of Egypt’s highest diversity of plants, while foxes, vipers, lizards, and tortoises are just some of the animals that make their home in the north, which is characterized by lagoons and vast dunes of soft sand. Sinai: Landscape and Nature in Egypt’s Wilderness transports us to the haunting grandeur of this peninsula with 150 breathtaking full-color photographs. Omar Attum’s discerning eye shows us blood-red mountains, animals in natural repose and habitat, solitary trees and flowers, and fugitive strips of water, conveying stark beauty and enormous vulnerability, an abundance of life yet utter, devastating peace. The photographs are accompanied by an evocative introduction by Attum to Sinai’s wildlife and landscape.

Sinai is now one of the world's most popular diving destinations, and in Sharm el-Sheikh alone an average of more than one thousand dives are made every day - but mainly on just one tenth of the dive sites. Now here is a real diving atlas that has been developed through more than ten years of diving experience, and which illustrates clearly the topography of all major dive sites of south Sinai, and their secrets. A must for all Red Sea divers.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

By John Galey. 9x12" 191 pages profusely & beautifully color photo illustrated. Copyright 1979, English copyright 1980 thus a First U.S. Edition, published by Massada Publishing.

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Sinai Tapestry, the brilliant first novel of the Jerusalem Quartet, is an epic alternate history of the Middle East in which the discovery of the original Bible links a disparate group of remarkable people across time and space. In 1840, Plantagenet Strongbow, the twenty-ninth Duke of Dorset, seven-feet-seven-inches tall and the greatest swordsman and botanist of Victorian England, walks away from the family estate and disappears into the Sinai Desert carrying only a large magnifying glass and a portable sundial. He emerges forty years later as an Arab holy man and anthropologist, now the author of a massive study of Levantine sex—and the secret owner of the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, Skanderbeg Wallenstein has discovered the original Bible, lost on a dusty bookshelf in the monastery library. To his amazement, it defies every truth held by the three major religions. Nearly a century later, Haj Harun, an antiquities dealer who has acted as guardian of the Holy City for three thousand years, uncovers the hidden Bible. Sinai Tapestry is the first volume of the Jerusalem Quartet, which continues with Jerusalem Poker, Nile Shadows, and Jericho Mosaic.