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The army-controlled company delivering Egypt’s new capital city in the desert east of Cairo has launched a competition to find a name for it.
Since the ambitious project’s unveiling in 2015, the...
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Anudersprawl, ok! I suppose all on borrowed money. A bit like a bank lending money to the value of $100 million dollars to a homeless person. Not trying to be funny but there seems to be a thing...
Well yesterday a huge 'balloo, mobile sound systems, young men and kids and shopping...
Soon we have another wedding today they erect the tent.
Washing machine,
Cooker,
Fridge,
TV, ect......
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Well it's still kicking at midnight here.....
But the DJ's are absolute sh*t, I mean really shite! perhaps it's because I've been spoilt with the likes of:
Carl Cox, Danny Rampling, Fatboy Slim,...
Just thought I would like to share these retinted B/W photographs, I thought they were pretty good... 8)
1920's sunset.
Satchmo & Lil, Daisy or Alpha.... 8)
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They are very interesting, did the site show the originals alongside? I only ask because it is so easy to fake a similar photograph with todays software, but even if they were faked they are very...
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...
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.
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......
‘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...
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...
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.
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...
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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