Just thought I would like to share these retinted B/W photographs, I thought they were pretty good... 8)

1920's sunset.

Satchmo & Lil, Daisy or Alpha.... 8)

So, who has just shuffled off his mortal coil ? not before time imho.... 8)

Egypt says it will raise electricity prices for households and businesses by an average of 15 percent, the latest in a series of austerity measures aimed at boosting the economy.

Electricity...

Google celebrated on Sunday, May 26 the discovery of the Khufu ship in 1954 with a Google Doodle. It is considered one of the world's oldest and largest ships.

The Khufu ship was discovered in...

Now, I know we have all had it pretty easy here over the years, subsidies here and there.
Now seems the time we all have to start to 'coughing-up... spluttering-up more like....

El Sisi is getting...

Egyptian tattoo artist draws flowers, butterflies to hide burns

In a workshop in Cairo's upscale neighborhood of Maadi, Egyptian tattoo artist Shenouda Abdel Malak conceals people's psychological...

EgyptAir Suicide.

‘The 2016 crash of a Paris-Cairo EgyptAir flight that killed all 66 people on board was a result of a lack of maintenance and the plane should never have taken off, according to an...

All is Vanity.

Its in the Old Testament and still true.

Here is a sketch of the new Presidential Palace on the North Coast near Alamein to join the Cairo and Alex Palaces – so many palaces. This...

Geerte Hofstede is a major Dutch sociologist/management theorist who has studied Egypt and many other countries. Unlike others who just look at statistics he tries to identify the values and human...

All museums will open for free for Egyptians and tourists on May 18, which marks the International Museum Day.

In a Tuesday statement, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities announced that the museums...

Egyptian History Lies.

This post is about someone well known to European-Luxor residents and the moral backbone – or something akin to a back-side – of Egypt. Beware of who your heroes are.

Farag...

Regini was reportedly arrested and beaten by Egyptian police because they thought he was a British spy. The 28-year-old Italian student was on an exchange program in Egypt while studying at Cambridge...

Climate change will kill us all if not fixed and will also kill trees and plants as well. However there is paradox with climate change maybe, at this stage, making bigger but more fragile/weaker...

Egypt's Red Sea Governorate is to introduce a ban on single-use plastics that are destroying marine life, the province's top official said Wednesday.

The ban, set to take effect in June, covers...

The number of reported car accidents in Egypt fell by nearly a quarter last year, according to new figures from the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Some 8,480...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has raised the country’s minimum wage to 2,000 Egyptian pounds a month from 1,200 pounds, he said at an event on Saturday celebrating women.

Sisi said the...

Egypt just opened its first long-distance hiking trail and it’s stunning

Mar 4, 2019

A NEW HIKING TRAIL just opened in Egypt. The 105-mile Red Sea Mountain Trail will be the first long-distance...

According to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah’s speech at the final session of the Arab and African Youth forum in Aswan, foreigners residing in Egypt are to be screened as part of the “100 Million...

12 March 2019: A week ago, an official at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced that banknotes with writings or scribbles are untradable, a step begged a question on the possibility of trading...