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Ghada Tosson waits anxiously outside an Egyptian high school in the Helwan district south of Cairo as her daughter with Down's syndrome sits her end-of-year exam.
Winning the chance to sit standard...
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A fabulous episode in a fabulous second series. If you want fascinating, revealing and honest TV with lots of humour and some tears, I highly recommend going back to Series 1 and working your way...
Egypt’s official state news agency reports that the governor of the Egyptian capital has announced a 50-percent increase in transportation fares, a day after the government increased fees for...
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I feel more sorry for the bus drivers, they are getting it the neck from passengers, as if he can control the increases, according to my eyes on the ground. It would be nice if the government made it...
Any project requires a committee, which requisitions a detailed Report, which the committee then refers to the Cabinet, Prime Minister and President. More often than not,...
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It was deemed as an illegal gathering by the new ruler, so was disbanded, which just left the two that were the only ones attending anyways, the t shirt two.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Sherif Ismail signed off on Wednesday to raise drinking water and sewage fees starting August by as much as 50 percent for consumers of all consumption tiers.
On a sunny summer day amid green fields in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis, Khaled Abdul Nabi sat under the shade of a mango tree watching his workers preparing lemongrass crops to be exported to Europe.
Just...
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'All we need is a good marketing system' and 'the government should strongly helps farmers'
Good to see irony is alive and well in Egypt :lol:
CAIRO – 30 July 2017: “Egyptian tour guides are the best in the world according to the evaluations of international tourism organizations and internationally approved performance reports,” Walid...
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Having overheard some of the rubbish that so-called tour guides deliver to their groups, I was insistent that Petra provide an experienced and knowledgable guide, and Waleed was exactly that! A lot...
Mustafa Galal al-Azali joined the fashion world not long ago, determined to make his mark.
Azali now has a legacy, after winning the 2017 ‘Man of the World’ title at the championship competition,...
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Yes, and if my bus had turned up, it would of been me in the photo shoot. Won by default. :cry:
The Social Solidarity Directorate in Luxor suspended an orphanage supervisor on allegations of torturing kids, and referred the case to public prosecution for further investigations.
Head of the...
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I couldn't agree more Newcastle, children have been abused all over the world by those who are in a position to do so. The treatment of children at Sunshine however has raised many concerns for years.
A huge military base was opened in Egypt on Saturday, amid continued financial pressures for the country as Cairo cuts government spending in other areas.
The Mohammed Naguib Military Base is...
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You start to see where the borrowed money is going though! No change there. Could this be the next North Korea?
In a bare room with nothing but a small pillow, a few pots, and a sheet to cover the dusty floor, Youssef Abdullah's family was living in an impoverished Upper Egyptian village when they were told he...
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One of these guys said his brother had worked in Libya and came home with enough money to build a small home. If your young strong and can not find work then the temptation to go look for it in the...
Many may know of the Culturewheel in Cairo. Part night club, part educational venue with a strong commitment to young people and Egyptian cultural development. It covers music, literature and theatre...
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The above could hardly be less intelligible. I've even tried rearranging the words....to no effect.
You need to leave the confines of your local boozer and take a course in elementary English.
It is generally not considered a good idea to swim in the Nile these days, although many people do. In 1956 a 29 mile competition to swim the Nile took place. I'm not sure if this was a regular...
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Don't know about the competition, but this year in Ramadan, as in every Ramadan when many hundreds swim in the Nile, there were nine deaths by drownings, one young lad never found. Its strictly a no...
Egypt faces water insecurity as Ethiopian mega-dam starts filling.
“The land has become very dry,” observes Mahmoud Abo Khokha, a farmer from Al Monofeyya governorate, in Egypt’s Nile delta....
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The Ethiopian Dam project was conceived 7 years ago and is nearing completion. Egypt has been twittering about it consistently...without the Ethiopians (backed by Sudan) taking the slightest...
Modern Egyptian painters generally haven’t come from Upper Egypt, except for the new generation of brilliant Luxor graffitists, and therefore most paintings of Luxor are either of the standard...
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I agree that its probably not the Luxor area I never thought it was – principally because of what appears to be rock facing to the river bank which, I think, is untypical of the Luxor area. In any...
Egypt is changing the way it subsidises bread in a bid to better supply its most vital staple and reduce wheat imports by the world’s biggest buyer of the grain.
Rather than fund the production of...
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Having written my most recent post above, I do not want to sound dis-respectful to the local ex-pats in Luxor and the West Bank, but during my time in Upper Egypt I often visited friends far away...
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