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Advice, information and discussion about Egypt in general.
Moderators: Horus, DJKeefy, 4u Network
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Useful Websites
by Connie Tindale » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:54 am
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We need to rebuild the useful websites page. Please add any that you can think of here.
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Looks like this thread hasn't been updated for a while. Anyways, I will add new links here, in case someone is checking the thread. All of these have updated Egypt information:
Hurghada & Egypt...
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Last post by Hanna
Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:48 pm
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Travel Advice - Egypt
by DJKeefy » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:37 pm
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Still current at: 07 October 2008
Updated: 30 September 2008
This advice has been reviewed and reissued with amendments to the Crime and River and Sea Safety sections. The overall level of the...
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I am locking this thread.
I am surprised that it has been resurrected, and how fast it is moving off topic.
The original information is over ten years old. It may still be current but, as so much...
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Last post by HEPZIBAH
Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:27 am
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Live Stream from Karnak Temple
by DJKeefy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:50 am
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I saw the governor on tv yesterday and he said 90 percent of the street cameras in Luxor had been installed so far, making the city safer....
Installation does not equal operating and there of...
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Last post by Who2
Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:59 am
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Timeline: Egypt - A chronology of key events
by DJKeefy » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:49 am
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circa 7,000 BC - Settlement of Nile Valley begins.
circa 3,000 BC - Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite. Successive dynasties witness flourishing trade, prosperity and the development of great...
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thanksz
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Last post by Dravid456
Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:59 am
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Facts & Figures - Egypt
by DJKeefy » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:56 am
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BASIC FACTS
Capital
Cairo
Language
Arabic is the official language; English and French are used by an educated elite; Nobiin, Berber and Coptic are used for religious purposes.
Area size...
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It was interesting to note that the literacy rate for women was half that of men and that even in 2002 almost 60% of the female population could not read. As this would be a national rather than a...
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Last post by Once bitten
Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:11 am
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Profile of Egypt
by DJKeefy » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
BASIC INFORMATION
Full Country Name: The Arab Republic of Egypt
Area: 997,739 Sq. Km
Population: 70.5 million (2004)
Capital City: Cairo (population - 16.7million)
People: Eastern Hamitic...
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Last post by DJKeefy
Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
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Who has just kicked the Bucket ?
by Who2 » Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:19 pm
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So, who has just shuffled off his mortal coil ? not before time imho.... 8)
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Former Egypt president Mohammed Morsi dies during trial
June 18, 2019 — 5.17am
Cairo: Former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected head of state in Egypt's modern...
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Last post by Winged Isis
Mon Jun 17, 2019 10:53 pm
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Channel 5 - The Nile with Historian Bettany Hughes
by crewmeal » Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:55 pm
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Starting tomorrow on Channel 5
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Yes my heart sank as she hurried toward the top floor of the museum and said I am here to meet someone very special, a very famous Egyptologist luckily I saw it was Salima before I had managed to...
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Last post by Horus
Sat Jun 15, 2019 3:00 pm
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Last post by Horus
Wed Jun 05, 2019 6:15 pm
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Egypt to hike electricity prices in July
by DJKeefy » Tue May 21, 2019 6:01 pm
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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...
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Don't talk about your Leccie prices, here we have the biggest hikes throughout the EU at almost 13%. Our bill on average is 140€ every 2 months. What is the average bill in Luxor now following this...
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Last post by Major Thom
Fri May 31, 2019 5:36 am
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Google celebrates discovery of Khufu Ship with Google Doodle
by DJKeefy » Sun May 26, 2019 2:50 pm
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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...
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Oh yes, I had forgotten about that. :oops:
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Last post by Horus
Tue May 28, 2019 9:21 pm
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The rising Costs of Living in Egypt.
by Who2 » Thu May 16, 2019 9:46 am
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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...
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The Saudis are well and truly on top of that. New cities that are dedicated solar powered and even have aircon in the streets all powered by convection and air pressure differences.. Clever stuff......
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Last post by John Landon
Mon May 20, 2019 8:39 am
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Tattoo artist draws flowers, butterflies to hide burns
by DJKeefy » Thu May 16, 2019 1:01 pm
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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...
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That's a really interesting post, Keefy! Thanks for posting it. I also agree with Who's comments, but it's a very interesting way of concealment.
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Last post by Ruby Slippers
Fri May 17, 2019 12:50 pm
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EgyptAir Suicide
by Hafiz » Thu Apr 25, 2019 1:41 pm
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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...
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Judge for yourselves.
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Last post by crewmeal
Fri May 10, 2019 6:14 am
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All is Vanity.
by Hafiz » Sun Apr 28, 2019 6:27 am
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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...
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'Dubious economic strategy' - really. A ledger-keeper, bookkeeper would scream otherwise from under his white visor.
Huge debt on non-moneymaking and non-job creating projects some of which blew...
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Last post by Hafiz
Fri May 10, 2019 4:01 am
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Egyptian Values and Failure
by Hafiz » Fri May 10, 2019 3:00 am
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...
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Last post by Hafiz
Fri May 10, 2019 3:00 am
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Museums open for free on International Museum Day
by DJKeefy » Thu May 09, 2019 4:37 pm
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...
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Last post by DJKeefy
Thu May 09, 2019 4:37 pm
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Egyptian History Lies-Farag
by Hafiz » Tue May 07, 2019 12:42 pm
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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...
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With the sphinx avenue my second reference to the left of the avenue should have been to the right - a political direction well known to Farag, on an extreme day.
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Last post by Hafiz
Wed May 08, 2019 1:52 am
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Details emerge about Italian student Murdered in Egypt
by DJKeefy » Mon May 06, 2019 3:51 pm
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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...
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I can’t see that an overheard (and presumably unrecorded) conversation adds much to this sad saga.
The world at large has come to the conclusion (in the absence of any plausible alternative...
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Last post by newcastle
Mon May 06, 2019 5:15 pm
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Trees and Climate Change in Egypt
by Hafiz » Sun Apr 21, 2019 8:03 am
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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...
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See my post headed Fauna in General Discussions
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Last post by Major Thom
Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:18 pm
