CAIRO (Reuters) - The Suez Canal Authority's chairman, Osama Rabie, said on Monday that navigational maps for the planned 10km (6.2 mile) canal extension were issued. Rabie's statement said that the ...
An illustration of opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 17, 1869, the esteemed guests of Ismaʻil Pasha, Ottoman viceroy of Egypt, gathered on the ...
ISMAILIA, Egypt — The men in the canal’s control room had their eyes glued to radar screens, monitoring the progress of the precious yellow icons. Down below, on the bank of the Suez Canal, the ...