Inside Egypt Book

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:51 pm

Even 50% is a huge amount.

I'm amazed the book wasn't banned in Egypt

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:50 pm

It was, when it first came out. Then they lifted the ban. I haven't read the whole thing but I was able to read the Luxor chapter on Amazon.com...

Post by **cbrbddd** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:59 pm

I noticed the paperback version is coming out in August . . . a little bit cheaper than the hardback . . . this is in the U.S. amazon.com. I think I'll pre-order it.

I found another book titled "Egypt Culture Smart the essential guide to customs and culture", which i will order too. It had a recommend from the woman who has the blog whazzup egypt http://whazzupegypt.blogspot.com .

Being "on the bench" has some advantages and disadvantages

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:16 pm

My copy of this book arrived today and I went straight to the Luxor section. My husband is reading the chapter as we speak so we can have a discussion about it while we have dinner.

It is a very depressing state of affairs. When we are in Luxor my parents often come to visit us, my Mum is in her 50's and on a few occasions when we have been in Luxor, just the two of us, local lads have made a beeline for her. They soon backed off once I gave them a bit of verbal

Truly awful to see your own mother being propositioned!

The 'Luxor related forums' that the author talks about is clearly Luxor4u. He discusses an article in a newspaper that talked about the changing fabric of Luxor's society with young men marrying older women; I remember reading the quotes on here.

There is a West Bank lady who is interviewed who is aware of what her younger Egyptian husband is getting out of her, and she makes it clear what she is getting from him:oops: I think in a lot of ways I have more respect for women like this than the women that come here and say that they have found 'the one'.

Post by **JOJO** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:30 pm

Angela wrote: The 'Luxor related forums' that the author talks about is clearly Luxor4u.

Ooooo what does it say?

Post by **New Gal** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:39 pm

Angela wrote:My copy of this book arrived today and I went straight to the Luxor section. My husband is reading the chapter as we speak so we can have a discussion about it while we have dinner.

It is a very depressing state of affairs. When we are in Luxor my parents often come to visit us, my Mum is in her 50's and on a few occasions when we have been in Luxor, just the two of us, local lads have made a beeline for her. They soon backed off once I gave them a bit of verbal Truly awful to see your own mother being propositioned!

The 'Luxor related forums' that the author talks about is clearly Luxor4u. He discusses an article in a newspaper that talked about the changing fabric of Luxor's society with young men marrying older women; I remember reading the quotes on here.

There is a West Bank lady who is interviewed who is aware of what her younger Egyptian husband is getting out of her, and she makes it clear what she is getting from him:oops: I think in a lot of ways I have more respect for women like this than the women that come here and say that they have found 'the one'.

: I agree with you wholeheartedly Angela, I hate when people dress up their physical need for sex as 'love' and their material need for money as 'affection', be real people and just tell it like it is. If you need and want to have casual sex, be casual about it and if you know a bloke wants you just for money and/or sex then realise that and go into it eyes wide open.

No-one falls in love in a second nor is it enough to make a/the world go round. You need to have mutual respect, goals, aims, morals etc etc etc and that doesn't happen when your eyes lock across a club or bar, it takes a long time to build up.

Call a fling a fling and be done with it, if you need an orfi for security reasons, get one without stamps on it and tear it up the next morning but don't insult people's intelligence with stories of true love, it makes me so mad for the genuine people out there who call a spade a spade or in this case, a one night stand just that

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:56 pm

That's right, now I remember. He did quote Stan in something he said here in the forum without mentioning his name!

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:59 pm

Jo jo - Just for you.

(this bit is about the gay scene in Luxor)

â€œThe older foreign women who commented on their own Luxor-themed websites that reprinted the Asharq Al-awsat article were, I later discovered when I read through them, eager to point out in this context that it was not just they who were to blame for the growth of male prostitution in the city. Why, they wanted to know, were the gay Westerners who also flock to Egypt not being singled out?â€

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:01 pm

Angela wrote:
There is a West Bank lady who is interviewed who is aware of what her younger Egyptian husband is getting out of her, and she makes it clear what she is getting from him:oops: I think in a lot of ways I have more respect for women like this than the women that come here and say that they have found 'the one'.

I have to disagree. I respect someone who blindly falls in love more than someone who buys another human being.

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:02 pm

http://www.luxor4u.net/forum/viewtopic. ... t&&start=0

Here is the original thread.

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:02 pm

So he was calling Stan an older foreign woman?

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:03 pm

There is another quote from here in the chapter, I will try and find it.
Incidentally, half the people who contributed to the thread above aren't even in relationships (as far as I know) with Egyptians.

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:07 pm

Glyphdoctor wrote:So he was calling Stan an older foreign woman?

Looks like it

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:08 pm

And others of us who are don't belong to the older women category either!

Post by **Glyphdoctor** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:09 pm

Little did we know that Stan was a transsexual...S/he's kept it so well hidden!

Post by **Angela** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:13 pm

This is the woman I was referring to:-

"The women who struck me as the most contented had accepted from the start that there was no possibility of love with the local men, and the relationship was essentially one of glorified prostitution. They took control of the situation, that is to say, and just made the most of the sex with handsome guys who would not look twice (or even once) at them back in England.

One such English woman I chatted with, who owned a business on the West Bank, still could not get over her luck, three years after moving to Luxor, at being showered with so much attention.

"My husband is much younger than me." she kept saying, rolling her eyes and tutting mischievously.

It was not difficult to see why she was so elated: Frankly, she looked like she had been run over by a London double decker bus. Her Egyptian husband also had an Egyptian wife, so he would visit the British one only a few evenings a week, when he would giver her a servicing and get a cash handout in return.

"He's very jealous of me,"she said, rolling her eyes and tutting loudly again. This woman, though was the exception".

Blimey! Don't mince your words John Bradley:lol:

Post by **JOJO** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:29 pm

OMG

)

) How embaressing for her. I think the author got alittle confused in who wrote what

Thank god I didn't contribute to the thread-phew

Post by **JOJO** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:44 pm

oh..... after reading I may of contributed on that thread as the pages went on BUT in true Jojo style I went off on a different topic!

Post by **Ebikatsu** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:29 pm

Angela wrote:This is the woman I was referring to:-

"The women who struck me as the most contented had accepted from the start that there was no possibility of love with the local men, and the relationship was essentially one of glorified prostitution. They took control of the situation, that is to say, and just made the most of the sex with handsome guys who would not look twice (or even once) at them back in England.

One such English woman I chatted with, who owned a business on the West Bank, still could not get over her luck, three years after moving to Luxor, at being showered with so much attention.

"My husband is much younger than me." she kept saying, rolling her eyes and tutting mischievously.

It was not difficult to see why she was so elated: Frankly, she looked like she had been run over by a London double decker bus. Her Egyptian husband also had an Egyptian wife, so he would visit the British one only a few evenings a week, when he would giver her a servicing and get a cash handout in return.

"He's very jealous of me,"she said, rolling her eyes and tutting loudly again. This woman, though was the exception".

Blimey! Don't mince your words John Bradley:lol:

OMG

Can you imagine the embarrassment of the husband reading the other man thought she looked like she had been hit by a bus!!! he must have died of shame

I bet you he told all his mates in the cafe his wife was going to be in a book and died a death when they all read it

That's assuming he and they can read

I bet they wont be giving too many interviews!!

Post by **JOJO** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:31 pm

I bet he doesn't know anything about it!