Ad blocker detected: Our website is made possible by displaying online advertisements to our visitors. Please consider supporting us by disabling your ad blocker on our website.
Advice, information and discussion about Egypt in general.
Moderators: DJKeefy, 4u Network
-
-
Useful Websites
by Connie Tindale » Mon Aug 08, 2005 11:54 am
First post
We need to rebuild the useful websites page. Please add any that you can think of here.
Last post
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...
- 17 Replies
- 88718 Views
-
Last post by Hanna
Sat Apr 27, 2019 11:48 pm
-
-
Travel Advice - Egypt
by DJKeefy » Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:37 pm
First post
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...
Last post
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...
- 13 Replies
- 14095 Views
-
Last post by HEPZIBAH
Thu Apr 26, 2018 7:27 am
-
-
Live Stream from Karnak Temple
by DJKeefy » Sun Mar 09, 2014 12:50 am
First post
Source:
Last post
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...
- 25 Replies
- 20810 Views
-
Last post by Who2
Sat Nov 29, 2014 9:59 am
-
-
Timeline: Egypt - A chronology of key events
by DJKeefy » Tue Oct 07, 2008 9:49 am
First post
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...
Last post
thanksz
- 3 Replies
- 9296 Views
-
Last post by Dravid456
Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:59 am
-
-
Facts & Figures - Egypt
by DJKeefy » Mon Nov 14, 2005 12:56 am
First post
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...
Last post
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...
- 9 Replies
- 14357 Views
-
Last post by Once bitten
Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:11 am
-
-
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...
- 0 Replies
- 8635 Views
-
Last post by DJKeefy
Tue Aug 29, 2006 4:15 pm
-
-
Hurghada-Sharm Ferry news
by HEPZIBAH » Mon Oct 14, 2019 2:25 pm
First post
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...
Last post
So many false starts...... maybe at last?
Maybe. Maybe not. :roll:
- 2 Replies
- 19 Views
-
Last post by HEPZIBAH
Mon Oct 14, 2019 4:09 pm
-
-
Egypt's Tahrir Square on lockdown as regime moves to stifle protests
by DJKeefy » Fri Sep 27, 2019 7:53 pm
First post
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...
Last post
Zineer a hot bed of MB supporters.
- 20 Replies
- 798 Views
-
Last post by carrie
Fri Oct 11, 2019 7:58 am
-
-
Disease and How To Get It.
by Hafiz » Sat Sep 28, 2019 3:01 am
First post
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...
Last post
The problem with any discussion about HIV in Egypt is the disconnect between what international bodies have to say, what the Egyptian government says, and what your gut tells you!
I have no argument...
- 6 Replies
- 148 Views
-
Last post by newcastle
Sat Sep 28, 2019 9:31 am
-
-
Protests break out against Egypt's Sisi in Cairo
by DJKeefy » Fri Sep 20, 2019 10:43 pm
First post
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....
Last post
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...
- 7 Replies
- 221 Views
-
Last post by newcastle
Thu Sep 26, 2019 4:12 pm
-
-
BBC Blocked in Egypt.
by A-Four » Mon Sep 23, 2019 5:49 pm
First post
Information I have coming out of Reuters states that very well known and respected B.B.C. reporter Sally Nabil was yesterday arrested along with her legal advisor. The B.B.C. along with other...
Last post
Iv'e lived and survived 3 revolutions. not those 1967 drug induced revolutions, good though they were.
Go shopping do I care, get your your head kicked in by a beardie-werdi not my problem.
Mind...
- 12 Replies
- 199 Views
-
Last post by Who2
Wed Sep 25, 2019 6:21 pm
-
-
Egypt military calls for Sisi to be ousted
by DJKeefy » Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:10 pm
First post
Officers in Egypt’s military called on citizens to take to the streets and bring an end to President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s regime, Al-Khaleej Online reported yesterday.
The Egypt Officers Front,...
Last post
Then he can use the countries judges to imprison or execute him, that the good thing about judges you can get them to do just about anything it worked well for the Nazi's in Germany. :up
- 4 Replies
- 116 Views
-
Last post by Horus
Wed Sep 25, 2019 10:14 am
-
-
Church
by carrie » Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:57 pm
When I was going to Hurghada via the Desert Road, about 5 kilo from Luxor we passed a wall, in the middle of which was a great gate flanked by two large, what looked like minarets. The wall continued...
- 0 Replies
- 79 Views
-
Last post by carrie
Fri Sep 20, 2019 4:57 pm
-
-
Egypt’s Open Skies Policy to further boost tourism
by DJKeefy » Mon Sep 16, 2019 6:46 pm
First post
An announcement by Egypt on its implementation of the Open Skies Policy, which allows Egyptian airlines to operate direct flights from European countries to the Cairo International airport, alongside...
Last post
Very pleasing to know Lower Egypt is getting well looked after at the expense of Upper Egypt..
- 7 Replies
- 236 Views
-
Last post by Major Thom
Thu Sep 19, 2019 8:36 am
-
-
LSE to establish branch in Egypt
by newcastle » Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:21 pm
First post
Yes...I can see the rationale of teaching economics and, particularly, politics in today’s Egypt. :urm:
Egypt’s Ambassador to Britain Tareq Adel attended the signing ceremony on Tuesday of a deal...
Last post
Oops...as you were :lol:
Egypt’s Ambassador to the United Kingdom Tareq Adel reportedly attended the signing ceremony on Tuesday September 10th of a deal with the University of London. According...
- 1 Replies
- 133 Views
-
Last post by newcastle
Tue Sep 17, 2019 9:08 pm
-
-
Sisi accused of massive corruption
by newcastle » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:03 pm
First post
I seem to have arrived in Egypt in the midst of a furore. My friends are talking about nothing else...it fills social media...and Sisi was on TV tonight trying desperately to poo poo the...
Last post
Hmm...I guess he won't be exclied and 'living' in Spain much longer.
😕😉😎
- 2 Replies
- 124 Views
-
Last post by HEPZIBAH
Sat Sep 14, 2019 10:48 pm
-
-
Egypt loses 8K feddans of arable lands over 8 years
by DJKeefy » Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:59 pm
First post
Over the past eight years, Egypt has lost 8,014 feddans of arable lands due to 1.9 million cases of encroachment and violations, said the Central Department for Land Protection at the Ministry of...
Last post
Having a chat with Saied ex chef ? 'Taste of India informed me that 'bakshesh had been paid to an unnamed
high official to build these two villas upon agricultural land.
Nice to see corruption is...
- 3 Replies
- 345 Views
-
Last post by Who2
Sun Sep 01, 2019 1:26 pm
-
-
Red Sea land and islands transferred to army
by newcastle » Sun Sep 01, 2019 12:19 pm
It looks as if Al-Sisi is after expanding the army’s already extensive involvement in tourism.
Having conquered numerous industrial sectors of the Egyptian economy, the Egyptian Armed Forces...
- 0 Replies
- 150 Views
-
Last post by newcastle
Sun Sep 01, 2019 12:19 pm
-
-
Where's dis den ?
by Who2 » Sat Aug 24, 2019 1:06 pm
First post
........ 8)
Last post
I was going to ask was this during the flood ?
Had the answer being yes, then I knew where it was.
but stupidly, I should have spotted the tree..
Homer Simpson moment.. Doh !!
- 3 Replies
- 267 Views
-
Last post by John Landon
Fri Aug 30, 2019 10:43 pm
-
-
Brits warned of E.coli outbreak in Egyptian resort one year after couple’s death.
by DJKeefy » Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:01 pm
First post
Tourists have been warned of rampant E.coli infections at an Egyptian resort where a British couple died under suspicious circumstances last year.
Public Health England say 22 holidaymakers have...
Last post
I must say I was shocked to learn that Egyptian medical services are not up to the standards of the NHS.
It’s probably because the Egyptians have twice as many people to deal with and rather less...
- 8 Replies
- 423 Views
-
Last post by newcastle
Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:23 am
