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It is summer time in Egypt, a season when many Egyptians prepare to travel abroad for a myriad of reasons, whether for tourism, business or studying. However, it is a struggle for many of them to get...
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There's probably a catch 22 position with visa's - if you've never had one then how do the authorities know that you are going to return home as there is no travel history but on the other hand if...
Security forces in the Upper Egyptian city of Luxor have reportedly arrested five out of 10 male relatives accused of killing three female family members after suspecting them of having affairs.
The link below is to a recent article on Tourism. There is not much new in the article it but it points out how the trade has come back from past problems (1998 Luxor 60 killed, 2006 Dahab 23...
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Brian Yare - I'd also like to know the breakdown. I've never seen figures on duration: which is probably more important. All you get is figures like 10 million tourists rather than 70 million tourist...
Egypt’s government expects to collect around LE2.7 billion (roughly $388.5 million) in revenues from property taxes imposed on 15 million units and that have been counted by the tax authority’s...
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15 Poles BB, you are lucky living next to a half empty house for the peace and quiet. :lol:
The World Food Programme (WFP) in Egypt released a report on Tuesday showing that 17 percent of Egypt's population, an estimated 13.7 million people, suffered from food insecurity in 2011, compared...
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The result has been an increase in poverty rates and of malnutrition.
I think there would also be an increase in lots of other factors as well - domestic violence, crime, mental health etc which...
It's rare that I have come across a shop in Luxor that seems to be able to add the price of a few items up in their head quickly, most times they have to use a calculator, sometimes they have to...
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My sister was/is a maths genius, whereas I was the proverbial underachiever with the numbers, a thicko. She still works at 67 to make ends meet, I retired at 50 and used any form of electronic devise...
The streets are almost deserted. Luxury hotels, some with 270 rooms, are empty, except for the lonely hotel porter. Taxi drivers are waiting for customers that are not coming. Luxor, one of the...
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The Syrian kids here are, as I've pointed out previously, a nuisance, or used to be. They seemed to have quietened down a lot of late. I was talking to my Egyptian neighbour a couple of days ago and...
CAIRO — Pigs once played an important economic role for Cairo's Coptic Christians, and helped keep the capital clean. Now, after a controversial culling, they are making a return.
A city of 18...
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Highly recommend:
I'm after 'babe sized kanzeer, as in it's early sequences, my 'Hawaiian BBQ™pending, cannot take large porkers anything under 18 kilos should suffice just nice!......:cool:
PS:...
Some 6.3 million families had home internet access in 2012, according to Egypt's official statistics agency, while 96 percent of Egyptian households owned at least one mobile phone.
Sexual harassment of women in Egypt is a major problem but a Cairo based TV documentary series is trying to raise awareness and has used a male actor to impersonate a woman on Cairo streets and to...
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The producers said:
“We realised that we could not find a root cause, and so instead, the film engages in a kind of myth-busting exercise. (We found that) many perpetrators are married, they are...
Egyptian police have arrested three al-Qaeda militants planning a suicide attack on a Western embassy, the country's interior minister says.
Mohammed Ibrahim did not specify which embassy had been...
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The point is though why do such organisations exist in the first place. ?
Hatshepsut had nothing to do with AL Quaeda, and most of the 9/11 terrorists allegedly from that group were still alive after...
Egypt's health ministry lists licensed bottled water brands amid shortage fears.
Official safe-to-drink list addresses key consumer concerns amid bottled water shortage following ministry crackdown...
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I personalty drink very little water and what I do drink usually comes from a kettle with tea bag. But I think it a disgrace when it can be openly stated that the water is unsafe to drink in the big...
It has not been a very good week for animals in Egypt. Truth be told, animals usually end up getting the short end of the stick here, literally. Animals are either food or are used for work in the...
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I know a few Egyptians that care and love their pets as much as their children, but unfortunately the vast percentage of the Egyptian population have little or no interest in domesticated animals....
Islamist-ruled Egypt is open to visitors who drink alcohol and wear bikinis as it sets out to boost numbers by at least a fifth this year, the tourism minister said on Sunday.
Tourism is a pillar of...
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Not only that, I have never been told to leave one of the many hotels if I need a loo, so theoretically, there are no shortages.
Videos of brutal public executions have become increasingly common in Egypt. Experts say lynching phenomenon could spread to major cities.
Egged on by communal acceptance, mob killings of alleged...
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Without going into Politics, I supposes someone has to uphold the law in Egypt, it was always going to go down this avenue, when the people were allowed to take back the streets from the Police and...
The touristic city of Hurghada saw the opening of a no-alcohol resort on Saturday – dubbed by state media as the first of its kind in the Red Sea – allocating an entire floor for women only.
Resort...
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You can always get over the asterisks. :up That is one of those Northern sayings, meaning nothing small is of importance.
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