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Security requirements on flights from Turkey and Egypt
14/12/2017
Update:
You may be aware of UK Government restrictions preventing the carriage of larger electronic items, such as kindles,...
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Left Luxor last week with EA not a word said about my laptop or my 5 cartons of fags.
Mind you an unhelpful & nosy English expat started to explain to me that I had to many cigarettes.
I told him to...
Prior to Christmas the New York Times published an op-ed “Actually Egypt is a Terrible Ally”. It documented decades of non-performance – both for the benefit of the US and for the Egyptian people –...
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I think you may well be right. Everything Egypt is doing at the moment does not effect the local people at all. But never mind things will soon change, promises of this that and the other ready for...
I thought him one of Egypt’s heroes. The long term head of the Alex Library, a prolific author, descended from a pre-Nasser upper class family, sits on high status western Boards, 38 honorary...
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Obviously droll irony is not dead in the Trump/Boris age. Well not entirely dead - maybe just on life support for the many.
Many visitors from the UK (and this may be the case for other countries as well) will be familiar with the multiple entry tourist visa obtained on application to Embassy in London.
I'm not mad about opera but enjoy going to one from time to time. This would be one of the occasions that I would really like to go, but alas I already know I cannot have time from off from work in...
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Went to this with my husband in, I think, 2009. An okay production for an opera far from being my favourite, but you cannot deny the location is fabulous.
The proposed bill criminalising atheism is but the latest in bizarre legislation discussed, though not (as yet) enacted by Egypt's parliament since 2016
From Ripped Jeans Ban to Virginity Tests:...
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Nothing to do with education the majority of the world would expect a murderer to be punished. Your argument which you seem to have dropped was that she didn't know the law so should not be held...
A number of hotel managers in the Red Sea confirmed that Christmas and New Year’s Eve reservations in Marsa Alam and Hurghada have reached about 90...
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Newcastle amazing - but probably short term surge that still leaves long term viability in question - not to mention stable jobs for young or poorer people.
An interesting article on attitudes to family planning in Egypt. I doubt the findings will come as any surprise to those of us familiar with the Egyptian mentality
Photo Credit: Reuters/ Amr...
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I think the answer lies in the statistics, the educated better off have less children
No, Carrie, they have fewer children.
Sorry, I thought that I had lost my grammar police hat.
A mother who had been recently diagnosed with AIDS after transmitting the disease from her husband committed suicide by jumping from the fifth-floor of her Bulaq al-Dakrour...
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When the AIDS virus was first brought to the public attention, and the news quite openly stated that this was the Armageddon plague that will kill millions world wide with no cure, in our so called...
Sometimes a marketing phrase doesn’t make sense – if its really bad you can’t even make a guess on what they might mean or whether the idea was produced by a monkey or a human being.
Here is a...
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Dusak that may be the norm in your friends family but I know many where the wife is certainly the boss in her home, some of the husbands are quite scared of the wife and the majority of problems here...
Al-Sisi, Putin to Sign Contracts for Dabaa Nuclear Power Plant in a Bilateral Summit in Egypt
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Cairo on Monday to attend the final signing ceremony of...
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Yes you are right Brian, 2032 is most likely to be the date. My work was the Electrical installation in Sizewell B reactor, that alone took 3-4 years and goodness knows how much planning before hand....
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