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Max Rodenbeck was the long term correspondent for The Economist based in Cairo (The Economist has largely given up on Cairo and publishes mainly exceptionally scathing criticisms of Egypt) and spent...
CAIRO – 6 February 2018: The Giza prosecution ordered the release of Russian belly dancer Eicatrina Andreeva, known as Gawhara, on LE 5,000 bail and was suspended from practicing dancing until all...
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I think that you would have to be 'high' to want to watch a belly prancer.
The New York Times says it has a leaked tape of an Egyptian Security Service officer contacting some Egyptian media types and telling them to go soft on the US Jerusalem decision. The objective is...
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All these leaks and they boast to have good Plumbers, have they turned the gas on to places in Luxor yet? :lol:
There are frequent flare ups between the Muslims and Christians of Egypt. You may recall the December attack on a church in the Giza district :
Hundreds of Muslim demonstrators storm Egyptian...
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May be a call by Christians for the many unnecessary mosques to be demolished should be bought up, disturbing peoples peace when many have watches and mobiles to remind them of the time. We all know...
Security requirements on flights from Turkey and Egypt
14/12/2017
Update:
You may be aware of UK Government restrictions preventing the carriage of larger electronic items, such as kindles,...
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Left Luxor last week with EA not a word said about my laptop or my 5 cartons of fags.
Mind you an unhelpful & nosy English expat started to explain to me that I had to many cigarettes.
I told him to...
Prior to Christmas the New York Times published an op-ed “Actually Egypt is a Terrible Ally”. It documented decades of non-performance – both for the benefit of the US and for the Egyptian people –...
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I think you may well be right. Everything Egypt is doing at the moment does not effect the local people at all. But never mind things will soon change, promises of this that and the other ready for...
I thought him one of Egypt’s heroes. The long term head of the Alex Library, a prolific author, descended from a pre-Nasser upper class family, sits on high status western Boards, 38 honorary...
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Obviously droll irony is not dead in the Trump/Boris age. Well not entirely dead - maybe just on life support for the many.
Many visitors from the UK (and this may be the case for other countries as well) will be familiar with the multiple entry tourist visa obtained on application to Embassy in London.
I'm not mad about opera but enjoy going to one from time to time. This would be one of the occasions that I would really like to go, but alas I already know I cannot have time from off from work in...
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Went to this with my husband in, I think, 2009. An okay production for an opera far from being my favourite, but you cannot deny the location is fabulous.
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