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I’ve been traveling the world for a decade in search of unique food—but nothing prepared me for what happened in Egypt. This was supposed to be a special day trying camel meat the traditional ...
ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) – Remote-controlled robot jockeys lined up at a major camel racing festival in northeastern Egypt, as owners came under pressure from campaigns to stop using child ...
As the dollar exchange rate remains strong, traders in Egypt say they are struggling to sell camels ahead of Eid al-Adha, a major holiday. This year’s price of a single animal rose steeply ...
On a desert track in eastern Egypt camels race across the sand, urged on by their young jockeys and a convoy of cars speeding alongside them.
The morning after I arrived in Egypt to visit friends serving in the diplomatic corps, we piled into an armored car, and took the 45-minute ride to the camel market from Maadi, the Cairo ...
The largest market for camels in the Middle East A camel vendor leads his camel at the camel market in Birqash, Giza, 25 km,16 miles north of Cairo, Egypt, on August 26, 2016.
A new Egyptian project aims at zoning animal handlers to give tourists a smoother experience, but the camel handlers are staging protests.
Egypt’s inflation is keeping many families from buying camel, the traditional meat they ate when beef and mutton grew too expensive.
Camels wait to be bought and sold at the camel market in Birqesh, near Cairo, Egypt, May 15, 2008. Camel traders come to this small town from as far away as Somalia and Sudan to... Camels wait to ...