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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:
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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.
On Monday 6 May, Egyptians celebrated the annual spring holiday of Sham El-Nasim, having picnics and eating traditional fish dishes
Sham El-Nasim, a traditional Egyptian festival celebrating the...
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I was invited to join my Egyptian friends yesterday and last night but unfortunately my intestinal tract had other ideas. I was surprised when told that on the main square facing MacD's, men were...
Another sad consequence of the Burka spring. The consequences for Egypt will be catastrophic
The new government of President Mohamed Morsi has continued financing for family planning programs. But...
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I found out yesterday why the old building next but one to me has been repainted a garish purple and pink and is covered in Arabic script. The owner has decided to open a Kindergarten. According to...
Last week-end Hany Kadry Dimian resigned his position as First Deputy Finance Minister in Egypt.
Not important news, you might say, (as it seems so, on this site,and others.) however, this man was...
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I really have thought for some time now that Egypt is getting further and further into a tight corner, after reading this that corner has been reached, but in the words of the President God will...
In our culture if we do wrong or lie or whatever (whether deliberate or not) and then admit it with an apology it is viewed as us having personal strength or good moral character. It is then normal...
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It is all about 'us' trying to understand 'them' and 'them' trying to understand 'us' and hopefully we'll all be open enough, communicate enough, be tolerant enough, astute enough, self reflective...
Egypt's ailing pound continues its depreciation, recording a new all-time low on Tuesday with an average of LE6.92 to the dollar, data from the Egyptian central bank showed.
Prices of bottled mineral water have surged in the past two weeks, reaching EGP 2.5 from EGP 2 per bottle. According to media reports, prices vary from one region to another and traders and buyers...
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And you can bet your bottom dollar that when supply's are back to normal and the place once again becomes 'saturated' with bottled water, the 40Le price per box will still stand.
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