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Last post by Who2
Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:16 pm
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Egyptian Wine Success.
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Hafiz » Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:30 pm
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Egyptian Wine Success.
Wine is a way to make good to very good money on average soils using only moderate water, if you use trickle systems. Egypt has made wine for millennia but the wine of the...
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One only has to travel down the Nile to see all the new vineyards under black netting.
The quality has greatly improved since Al Ahram bought in French vinicultulists.
Which can only be a benefit,...
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Last post by Who2
Wed Dec 12, 2018 3:14 pm
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East Owinat. Another Toshka Farm Fiasco.
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Hafiz » Sun Dec 09, 2018 7:11 am
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East Owinat. Another Toshka.
Just when you thought there couldn’t be another government/military led agricultural/land reclamation fiasco (although Sisi’s 1.5 million feddans is waiting in the wings...
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Could you please encapsulate all the above in a 4 lined sentence,
that might entice me to read all that, Professor ?..... 8)
Well...he's been away for a few weeks working on this magnum opus.
I'm...
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Last post by newcastle
Sun Dec 09, 2018 12:34 pm
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Egyptian actress Rania Youssef could face jail...
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DJKeefy » Sat Dec 01, 2018 7:14 pm
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Egyptian actress Rania Youssef could face jail after wearing revealing dress.
An Egyptian actress could face up to five years in prison after being charged with public obscenity for wearing a...
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After a grovelling apology from the actress, the case against Rania has been dropped.
The artist Rania Youssef presented an apology to the Egyptian family and society for this incident and its...
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Last post by newcastle
Wed Dec 05, 2018 5:52 am
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Egypt no longer requires IMF assistance
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newcastle » Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:36 pm
No Additional Post-Loan Funding from IMF: Egypt’s Finance Minister
Source: Reuters
Upon ending the ongoing loan deal with the International Monetary Funding (IMF) next year, Egypt will not be...
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Last post by newcastle
Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:36 pm
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Child marriage in Egypt reaches 117,000 children
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DJKeefy » Thu Nov 22, 2018 1:35 pm
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An official CAPMAS report announced that 117,000 children under the age of 18 in Egypt are or have been married, even as Egypt has been battling child marriage.
The report, which was released on the...
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During my time on the WB I came across many a strange life. One I remember well, was a young girl, I suspect was around 17 years old, she married this chap around 30 years old, only because her...
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Last post by A-Four
Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:33 pm
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Saying it loud.....Egypt is Safe !!
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newcastle » Tue Nov 20, 2018 11:10 am
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Social media influencers and photographers praised this week security conditions in the country during a tour of Egypt’s tourist attractions organized by AmCham Egypt in cooperation with the Tourism...
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Here's today's risk assessment map.
It states parts of Egypt are unsafe, Duh! parts of London are by far unsafer.... 8)
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Last post by Who2
Mon Nov 26, 2018 7:44 am
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Egypt to export stray cats & dogs for consumption
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newcastle » Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:32 pm
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Some weeks ago the idea of rounding up stray dogs and cats and exporting them was mooted....the destination being countries like Korea where they are regularly eaten.
A leading Egyptian MP has...
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Human Rights Committee???? Where did that come from????
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Last post by Major Thom
Sun Nov 25, 2018 4:01 am
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Basma Hotel, Aswan
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Winged Isis » Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:03 pm
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Has anyone stayed here within the last couple of years? I've stayed there three times, but it's been eight years since the last, and it needed refurbishment. Has it been done or is it being/going to...
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I love the Isis Island! DH prefers the Movenpick but, although the service, rooms and food there are good, there is something very personal about the Isis Island for me. Maybe it's the view from our...
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Last post by Ruby Slippers
Sun Nov 18, 2018 9:27 pm
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Egypt collects taxes of LE 115.9B in Q1 2018/19
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DJKeefy » Thu Nov 08, 2018 9:01 pm
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The Egyptian Tax Authority collected taxes amounting to LE 115.91 billion during the first quarter of the current fiscal year 2018/2019, according to Head of the Authority Emad Samy.
Samy noted...
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I was informed last week zee Germans are now flying 6 flights a week into Luxor, also Hurgharda is direct from
Berlin, 'gotun himmel!. .... 8)
Ps: Hot news President Sisi is due here this week with...
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Last post by Who2
Fri Nov 09, 2018 10:40 am
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The Rosetta Stone
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Who2 » Wed Nov 07, 2018 6:13 am
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Seems that Egypt wants the Rosetta Stone back for their new Giza Museum.
One doubts many people will actually visit the unfinished museum.
Dr Tarek Tawfik say's The British Museum can have a...
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Whatever next! the Greeks asking for the return of the Elgin Marbles?
At least we have a bargaining chip with those as in: “We will give you back the Elgin Marbles if you agree to take back all the...
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Last post by Horus
Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:05 am
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Egypt considers banning the burqa as part of anti-extremism
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DJKeefy » Tue Nov 06, 2018 3:18 pm
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Egypt considers banning the burqa as part of anti-extremism campaign.
Egypt is discussing a new draft law that would prevent women from wearing a burqa (nikab) in public spaces as part of a...
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Well that was crap bad sound plus an advert for '1bet kept popping up...
So series six of House of Cards, and a burqa yoke... 8)
Ps: Weirdo now the 6 o'clock news is at 8 o'clock, 'nearly time for...
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Last post by Who2
Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:08 pm
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Egypt, an abundant hunting ground for organ traffickers
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DJKeefy » Tue Oct 30, 2018 3:43 pm
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Egypt is one of the countries most affected by organ trafficking. Widespread poverty means criminal gangs can easily trick or pressure people into selling their organs. While authorities have passed...
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Flaming disgusting, but poverty leads to many things that people will do to escape. Where has all this poverty emerged from, it cannot be the authorities they the people were led to believe were...
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Last post by Major Thom
Wed Oct 31, 2018 2:56 am
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Pricey potatoes unleash Egyptians’ humour
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DJKeefy » Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:56 pm
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“For travel reason, 10kg of potatoes are for sale to the highest bidder!” “I’ve broken up with my finance because his salary can’t buy us enough potatoes!” “I wish my husband-to-be will give me a...
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All these measures do not seem to be working at the moment. So the local people can expects spiraling prices for a few years yet! The whole Country and everybody in it is corrupt so you can expect...
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Last post by Major Thom
Mon Oct 29, 2018 5:15 am
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Egypt seeks to put the brakes on crime riding tuk-tuk wave
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DJKeefy » Fri Oct 26, 2018 1:09 pm
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Whether in Egypt’s working-class areas, villages, or on highways, it is ubiquitous. The tuk-tuk, a motorised rickshaw, has become a main mode of transport in this country of nearly 100 million...
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A classic example of why Egypt struggles.
Tuk tuks require a licence but few localities actualy enforce this requirement. Many areas are a free-for -all for unlicenced drivers.....they just need to...
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Last post by newcastle
Fri Oct 26, 2018 7:15 pm
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Metzger Cecil Hotel.
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Hafiz » Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:08 pm
Metzger Cecil Hotel.
The Jewish owner was expelled from Egypt in 1957, the hotel was nationalized in 1962, the government ‘paid’ $29,000 (1962 rates) for the hotel and the incompetent EGOTH, the...
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Last post by Hafiz
Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:08 pm
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Egypt receives first electric bus from China
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DJKeefy » Sat Oct 06, 2018 1:55 am
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Egypt yesterday announced the arrival of the first electric bus from China which will service the Alexandria Corniche Road.
Local media, including the state-run Al-Akhbar newspaper, reported that...
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I've heard of the slow boat to China, but **** me, how long did the journey take? :lol: And no doubt it will turn out to be ''wong type of wode.'' that prevents it working.
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Last post by Dusak
Sat Oct 06, 2018 12:56 pm
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Some try Harder Than Egypt - and Succeed.
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Hafiz » Thu Oct 04, 2018 2:23 pm
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Some Try Harder.
China in the 60’s was dirt poor and Mao was killing and purging 10’s of millions and purging his own party of any competitors to his senile self and covering up his two disastrous...
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Dr you can bet Iceland employee's are on minimum wage!!
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Last post by Major Thom
Fri Oct 05, 2018 3:05 am
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Saadawi has extraordinary "vision"
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newcastle » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:22 am
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I always used to think Nawal El Saadawi was a glimmer of light in the darkness of Egyptian human rights and democracy and her acquiescence to some of the regimes' outrages could be put down to...
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Newcastle. i agree with you and this is not her first interview in the past 4-5 years which has seemed a reversal of her previous liberal views.
Senility is one interpretation but another is that...
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Last post by Hafiz
Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:48 pm
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The Private Sector is Alive in Egypt.
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Hafiz » Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:36 pm
The Private Sector is Alive in Egypt.
No its not.
The Egyptian Stock Exchange capitalization of shares as a measure of the private sector says.
1. Confidence is down badly, has been going down for...
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Last post by Hafiz
Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:36 pm
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