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Advice, information and discussion about Egypt in general.
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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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Source:
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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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Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
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Latest round of new governors
by newcastle » Wed Nov 27, 2019 12:43 pm
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According to undisclosed sources moves are afoot to appoint new governors......this after the big shuffle last year. I have some doubts about this post....and will correct later if necessary.
As...
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Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi appointed sixteen new governors on Wednesday, according to state-run television.
The newly-appointed governors include Abdel Hamid Abdel...
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Last post by newcastle
Wed Nov 27, 2019 2:53 pm
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Egypt is safe!!
by newcastle » Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:50 am
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Who’d have thought it!! Egypt is the 8th safest country in the world.....ranking above UK and most European countries.
“Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you...
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We all have different experiences.
In Nov 2018 I was in Hurghada suffering stomach pains. I went to a doctor who examined me and gave me the usual ‘gippy tummy’ medication. The problem persisted and...
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Last post by newcastle
Mon Nov 25, 2019 12:41 pm
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The Unfinished Obelisk in 1872
by HEPZIBAH » Fri Nov 22, 2019 7:21 pm
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The Unfinished Obelisk - in pre-mass tourism days of almost 150 years ago.
The Granite Quarries of Syene (Aswan ) with the unfinished Obelisk 1872 ,
By Frank Dillon #British , 1823-1909...
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That one last auctioned for £ 10,000 - 15,000 at Bonhams, I wonder where it is now ?
Definitely not at The Luxor Art Gallery even though they have silly prices for pretty poor works of art.
Being...
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Last post by Who2
Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:34 pm
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SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW FREE FOR DISABLED COMMUNITY, THE ELDERLY AND WAR VETERANS
by HEPZIBAH » Tue Nov 19, 2019 11:17 pm
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Posted today by Luxor City, Egypt on Facebook
SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW FREE FOR DISABLED COMMUNITY, THE ELDERLY AND WAR VETERANS
The Egyptian Sound and Light Show Company has announced its decision to...
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Egyptians only of course.
It doesn't actually say that, but that is the implication, especially as it states '...for their Arabic-language shows.'
Of course, you could fall into one or more of...
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Last post by HEPZIBAH
Wed Nov 20, 2019 8:52 pm
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The fast verry.
by HEPZIBAH » Fri Nov 01, 2019 8:22 pm
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The following has recently been posted on Facebook by Friends of Egypt support tourism to Egypt. (Personally, I find it frustrating that the prices are given in EGP for Egyptians and $ (USD) for...
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'Each trip takes two hours and a half from Hurghada to Sharm el-Sheikh.'
Wonder how long it takes from Sharm el Sheikh to Hurghada. 😆
Well...if my experience is anything to go by, the return trip...
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Last post by newcastle
Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:19 pm
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Egypt's Tahrir Square on lockdown as regime moves to stifle protests
by DJKeefy » Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:53 pm
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Egyptian security forces have blocked access to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, as part of a wide-ranging crackdown aimed at heading off planned...
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A Four. A variation on the cocoon idea. No one predicted the Arab Spring (well there was one US based junior academic who did - 1/50,000), the fall of communism, Iraq 2 or the recent financial...
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Last post by Hafiz
Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:25 am
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The English Are Civilized - Others Are Not
by Hafiz » Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:22 pm
The English Are Civilized.
The English quite like modern, pre WW2, Egyptian paintings, so do billionaires in the Gulf who have driven their price up. Egypt doesn’t like much other than mythologized...
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Last post by Hafiz
Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:22 pm
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Disease and How To Get It.
by Hafiz » Sat Sep 28, 2019 3:01 am
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Disease and How to Get It.
Arab countries are pure and untouched vessels of Islam. Maybe this accounts for the chaos, corruption, violence, war, poor democratic and legal systems, maltreatment of...
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Newcastle. Coverage of infected people is no good. The table above, under the heading of Treatment and Prevention Programs, has Egypt about the worst in the world as at a few years ago according to...
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Last post by Hafiz
Tue Oct 29, 2019 12:20 am
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Death toll from heavy rains, flooding rises.
by DJKeefy » Thu Oct 24, 2019 3:38 pm
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Thundery rain flooded the streets of Cairo but for northern Egypt, there is worse to come.
Several people have died since heavy rains and flooding began to paralyse Egypt's capital, Cairo, and other...
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An extremely unusual “medicane” is set to lash parts of Egypt and Israel, bringing the potential for tropical storm-force winds, heavy rainfall and perhaps even coastal flooding in spots. The hybrid...
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Last post by newcastle
Fri Oct 25, 2019 3:27 pm
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27 Unnoticed Beautiful Moments Captured in Egypt
by newcastle » Fri Oct 25, 2019 8:11 am
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Some iconic pictures :
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11. Silent Pain
camel merchant trying to guide a camel back to its enclosure.
I have a hard time seeing the beauty in animal abuse.
So do I....and I’ve witnessed, many times, animals in Egypt...
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Last post by newcastle
Fri Oct 25, 2019 1:09 pm
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Women of Egypt
by HEPZIBAH » Fri Oct 18, 2019 5:09 pm
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I've just come across this net page and thought I'd share as there are some wonderful photographs of Egyptian Women:
Women of Egypt Mag
An Advocacy Movement to Empower the Women of Egypt
20 Photos...
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I'm very happy for it to be shared.
It was a link I picked up on the internet, so not protected, and I have also shared it to the L4U/E4U/RS4U Facebook page as well as my own.
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Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:56 pm
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Boboos a Baladi Dog.
by Who2 » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:47 am
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Now I never knew this, thanks to some Yanks...
Using Embark services: DNA testing, strain identification, genealogy and
research partner at Cornell University, College of Veterinary Medicine. It is...
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Or even a big cat by any other name... 8)
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Last post by Who2
Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:30 am
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Hurghada-Sharm Ferry news
by HEPZIBAH » Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:25 pm
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EGYPT INDEPENDENT
Hurghada-Sharm el-Sheikh ferry line begins resuming operation
Al-Masry Al-Youm
October 14, 2019
11:30 am
The Cairo Ferry and Maritime Transport Company on Sunday conducted the...
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So many false starts...... maybe at last?
Maybe. Maybe not. :roll:
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Last post by HEPZIBAH
Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:09 pm
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Protests break out against Egypt's Sisi in Cairo
by DJKeefy » Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:43 pm
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Egyptian activists held protests against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in one of the first waves of demonstrations since the former army general tightened his grip on the country....
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Following the rare protest that was spotted near Egypt’s iconic Tahrir Square on Friday, a number of reports from rights groups and national media have claimed that Egyptian authorities have arrested...
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Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:12 pm
