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The occasional stats on tourist arrivals or anecdotes from members of this forum just obscure the full story. The tourism industry is very sick and the Central Bank...
According to undisclosed sources moves are afoot to appoint new governors......this after the big shuffle last year. I have some doubts about this post....and will correct later if necessary.
As...
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Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi appointed sixteen new governors on Wednesday, according to state-run television.
The newly-appointed governors include Abdel Hamid Abdel...
Who’d have thought it!! Egypt is the 8th safest country in the world.....ranking above UK and most European countries.
“Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you...
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We all have different experiences.
In Nov 2018 I was in Hurghada suffering stomach pains. I went to a doctor who examined me and gave me the usual ‘gippy tummy’ medication. The problem persisted and...
The Unfinished Obelisk - in pre-mass tourism days of almost 150 years ago.
The Granite Quarries of Syene (Aswan ) with the unfinished Obelisk 1872 ,
By Frank Dillon #British , 1823-1909...
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That one last auctioned for £ 10,000 - 15,000 at Bonhams, I wonder where it is now ?
Definitely not at The Luxor Art Gallery even though they have silly prices for pretty poor works of art.
The following has recently been posted on Facebook by Friends of Egypt support tourism to Egypt. (Personally, I find it frustrating that the prices are given in EGP for Egyptians and $ (USD) for...
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'Each trip takes two hours and a half from Hurghada to Sharm el-Sheikh.'
Wonder how long it takes from Sharm el Sheikh to Hurghada. 😆
Well...if my experience is anything to go by, the return trip...
Egyptian security forces have blocked access to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, as part of a wide-ranging crackdown aimed at heading off planned...
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A Four. A variation on the cocoon idea. No one predicted the Arab Spring (well there was one US based junior academic who did - 1/50,000), the fall of communism, Iraq 2 or the recent financial...
The English quite like modern, pre WW2, Egyptian paintings, so do billionaires in the Gulf who have driven their price up. Egypt doesn’t like much other than mythologized...
Arab countries are pure and untouched vessels of Islam. Maybe this accounts for the chaos, corruption, violence, war, poor democratic and legal systems, maltreatment of...
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Newcastle. Coverage of infected people is no good. The table above, under the heading of Treatment and Prevention Programs, has Egypt about the worst in the world as at a few years ago according to...
Thundery rain flooded the streets of Cairo but for northern Egypt, there is worse to come.
Several people have died since heavy rains and flooding began to paralyse Egypt's capital, Cairo, and other...
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An extremely unusual “medicane” is set to lash parts of Egypt and Israel, bringing the potential for tropical storm-force winds, heavy rainfall and perhaps even coastal flooding in spots. The hybrid...
I've just come across this net page and thought I'd share as there are some wonderful photographs of Egyptian Women:
Women of Egypt Mag
An Advocacy Movement to Empower the Women of Egypt
20 Photos...
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I'm very happy for it to be shared.
It was a link I picked up on the internet, so not protected, and I have also shared it to the L4U/E4U/RS4U Facebook page as well as my own.
Using Embark services: DNA testing, strain identification, genealogy and
research partner at Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine. It is...
Egyptian activists held protests against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in one of the first waves of demonstrations since the former army general tightened his grip on the country....
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Following the rare protest that was spotted near Egypt’s iconic Tahrir Square on Friday, a number of reports from rights groups and national media have claimed that Egyptian authorities have arrested...
Information I have coming out of Reuters states that very well known and respected B.B.C. reporter Sally Nabil was yesterday arrested along with her legal advisor. The B.B.C. along with other...
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Iv'e lived and survived 3 revolutions. not those 1967 drug induced revolutions, good though they were.
Go shopping do I care, get your your head kicked in by a beardie-werdi not my problem.
Officers in Egypt’s military called on citizens to take to the streets and bring an end to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday.
The Egypt Officers Front,...
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Then he can use the countries judges to imprison or execute him, that the good thing about judges you can get them to do just about anything it worked well for the Nazi's in Germany. :up
When I was going to Hurghada via the Desert Road, about 5 kilo from Luxor we passed a wall, in the middle of which was a great gate flanked by two large, what looked like minarets. The wall continued...
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