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Looks like this thread hasn't been updated for a while. Anyways, I will add new links here, in case someone is checking the thread. All of these have updated Egypt information:
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Arabic is the official language; English and French are used by an educated elite; Nobiin, Berber and Coptic are used for religious purposes.
Area size...
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It was interesting to note that the literacy rate for women was half that of men and that even in 2002 almost 60% of the female population could not read. As this would be a national rather than a...
Many now fear an imminent rise in fuel and food prices, as the government shifts to a flexible exchange rate that saw the currency dwindle in a matter of hours.
Egypt signed a $8bn deal with the...
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Thanks A-Four that helps. One point does anyone know if the UK donates foreign aid to Egypt? If so how much?
On another point it seems the low cost airlines only are using Sphinx airport for now. A...
Some on here may be aware that to the immediate south of and next to the old Nova Hotel (now known as Iberotel) they are building the new Four Seasons Hotel, it will take the shape in the style of an...
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Further to what you say Crewmeal, although this is a fine hotel, food is good and staff are wonderful, I cannot recommend this place simply because there are TWO tower crane next door, and building...
Towards the end of last week the Egyptian government announced throughout the national media, including the state run El Ahram, that it had discovered a large amount of fake U.S. $'s in general use...
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So the SFO will investigate an AOP about a crime ?
You're probably dead right there, why would they bother? (But I wouldn't have dared risk it anyway, lol.)
As I posted earlier this year Egypt is doing everything it possibly can to raise hard currency, through the 'back door' one might say. The world banks are some what rather disappointed that Egypt is...
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I find it very sad to read Dusak's recent posts, that he is now leaving Luxor, a place I know from reading his posts for many years, that he now finds it impossible to live there. He has really lived...
Are there any restrictions on the size of liquids in hand luggage? I'm only taking hand luggage....Last time I flew I had half bottle of sun lotion taken off me at Gatwick because the bottle was...
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Just a thought...I seem to think that you can/used to be able to order duty free to pick up at your home airport. Might be worth looking at the Gatwick website for information.
I've just got back from Heathrow airport having picked up a friend who had a flight from Uganda back to the UK via Cairo with Egyptair. She was filling me in on a number of the experiences she, and...
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In all my time in Egypt I have never had any real problem at either Cairo or Luxor airports when departing from there, being probably because these were the outward journeys, even when Luxor airport...
This is a promotional shot for my mates Dahabeya's.
He was a famous singer from Essna 'who once created quite a storm one News Years Eve
party at Scheherazade..'damn if I can remember his name, he...
No matter where I have travelled in the world, I have appreciated seeing old crafts being kept alive, either in traditional format or in a manner that keeps the tradition alive but meets the modern...
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Respect :up Who had imagined so much work going into creating each tile? Friends who import these tiles from Cairo tell me that there are always very few on the market, I cannot wait to hear their...
Born and raised in Nubia, southern Egypt, the 29-year-old Jehad Ashraf is the first in her family to grow up not understanding the Nubian language. “I lived in Aswan my whole...
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There is an article about the Nubian language on Wikipedia (I'm sure there are probably more and potentially better elsewhere but I've not searched that far). I've only skim read the beginning but it...
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