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Ibrahim Nafie - Well he wasn’t a journalist instead he ‘managed’ the decline of al Ahram and was more a media manager – but we shouldn’t get bogged down in truthful...
The Egyptian media awards for best photograph (not sponsored by the State or the Creativity Syndicate, Photography Syndicate, Art Syndicate or the Visual Syndicate) prove that not all creativity and...
Has anyone been in the last two years, or heard of places worth visiting, staying in, eating in, guides etc.? I know of and have been to a good number, but am interested in fairly recent, and...
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We ate at the hotel one night WI, we only stayed two nights the other we went to another hotel and I can't for the life of me remember the name but it wasn't very far from where we were staying that...
We remember twenty-five of the most influential women who have shaped the country’s history; women whose memory should not be forgotten as Egypt looks to the future.
When venturing into the desert around Luxor, you can find many interesting fossils and stones, including fossilised sea shells and squid like creatures, proving that the area must have once been...
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Here’s some from Malquatta, I particularly like the one that (with a bit of imagination) looks like the head of Horus. ;)
The so called experts say Egyptian government banks are B3 (right in the middle of the junk rating with a long way to go to get out) because the Central Bank of Egypt...
“If I owe you a pound, I have a problem; but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.”
-John Maynard Keynes
Here is Egypt’s Sovereign debt - the debt which is admitted publicy.
But this...
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Dusak. Yes that's how it looks.
However if you take into account that the 2008 figures are at the value then, therefore those figures would be higher if you adjusted them to 2018 value. But...
In a tiny village in Egypt’s southern province of Assiut, 16-year-old Amany Shamekh, who wants to be an artist one day, recalls how she was illegally circumcised with a razor blade.
“The midwife...
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I doubt that even a million woman march though all the main cities of Egypt would change anything for the better. All the government would state is that the law now states it is now an illegal...
Came across this B & W wide ranging video of Egypt in the 1950's
Hideous background music and an American commentary almost as dire.....but some interesting shots.
Have fun spotting the errors!...
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Good find. At the end of this clip you get a choice of other YT clips. One was ''the oldest known film clips of London. 1890, only two years after the Jack the Ripper murders. But the most...
Mega cities, Space exploration, Mega bridges, Nuclear power stations......
Look after the poor and vulnerable first :cry:
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We will see her again in a few weeks being interviewed on the TV, she stating most categorically that it was a diet gone wrong and she is now the picture of health, her actual age being 55. She was a...
I read this a week or so ago and thought it presented a stark and reasoned view of how things stand in the region written by a person with access to key decision makers.
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Egyptian media outlets on Thursday from spreading information that may defame the army or police forces, saying that such acts should be considered “treason.”...
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Agree with a deal. but journalists are supposed to be tough minded and cynical and when they interview an emotional simple person from the sticks whose judgement of political, police and judicial...
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics - the implication being that statistics are, in a sense, less believable than gross untruths.
You can prove anything with statistics . Well....no you...
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Its a general rule in the west that births drop immediately before and during an economic decline/recession. Its a new area of study and may not apply to the non-west. Here is the recent NPR radio...
Here's something for all you techies out there. Seems like a good way to learn about The Nile.
Now the bad news...
However the content must be tailored to the devices of different technology...
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The BBC has been looking at the dam and taking a negative view of what is going on in Egypt. Not a lot new in the former. I heard Orla interviewed for 10 minutes on the...
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