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Mustafa Galal al-Azali joined the fashion world not long ago, determined to make his mark.
Azali now has a legacy, after winning the 2017 ‘Man of the World’ title at the championship competition,...
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Yes, and if my bus had turned up, it would of been me in the photo shoot. Won by default. :cry:
The Social Solidarity Directorate in Luxor suspended an orphanage supervisor on allegations of torturing kids, and referred the case to public prosecution for further investigations.
Head of the...
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I couldn't agree more Newcastle, children have been abused all over the world by those who are in a position to do so. The treatment of children at Sunshine however has raised many concerns for years.
A huge military base was opened in Egypt on Saturday, amid continued financial pressures for the country as Cairo cuts government spending in other areas.
The Mohammed Naguib Military Base is...
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You start to see where the borrowed money is going though! No change there. Could this be the next North Korea?
In a bare room with nothing but a small pillow, a few pots, and a sheet to cover the dusty floor, Youssef Abdullah's family was living in an impoverished Upper Egyptian village when they were told he...
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One of these guys said his brother had worked in Libya and came home with enough money to build a small home. If your young strong and can not find work then the temptation to go look for it in the...
Many may know of the Culturewheel in Cairo. Part night club, part educational venue with a strong commitment to young people and Egyptian cultural development. It covers music, literature and theatre...
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The above could hardly be less intelligible. I've even tried rearranging the words....to no effect.
You need to leave the confines of your local boozer and take a course in elementary English.
It is generally not considered a good idea to swim in the Nile these days, although many people do. In 1956 a 29 mile competition to swim the Nile took place. I'm not sure if this was a regular...
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Don't know about the competition, but this year in Ramadan, as in every Ramadan when many hundreds swim in the Nile, there were nine deaths by drownings, one young lad never found. Its strictly a no...
Egypt faces water insecurity as Ethiopian mega-dam starts filling.
“The land has become very dry,” observes Mahmoud Abo Khokha, a farmer from Al Monofeyya governorate, in Egypt’s Nile delta....
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The Ethiopian Dam project was conceived 7 years ago and is nearing completion. Egypt has been twittering about it consistently...without the Ethiopians (backed by Sudan) taking the slightest...
Modern Egyptian painters generally haven’t come from Upper Egypt, except for the new generation of brilliant Luxor graffitists, and therefore most paintings of Luxor are either of the standard...
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I agree that its probably not the Luxor area I never thought it was – principally because of what appears to be rock facing to the river bank which, I think, is untypical of the Luxor area. In any...
Egypt is changing the way it subsidises bread in a bid to better supply its most vital staple and reduce wheat imports by the world’s biggest buyer of the grain.
Rather than fund the production of...
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Having written my most recent post above, I do not want to sound dis-respectful to the local ex-pats in Luxor and the West Bank, but during my time in Upper Egypt I often visited friends far away...
A sewage worker in Egypt unblocking the drains without any protective clothing/tools.
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Bin there, done that, although I never used this particular method. :sk A really s****y job. I was surprised to see that he didn't have a cig clenched between his teeth. :lol:
Egypt on Thursday raised electricity prices by more than 40 percent, its latest move on the road to lifting all subsidies and complying with demands by the International Monetary Fund for a $12...
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And locked doors, closed shutters when bills are brought around. :lol:
Egypt taxes gifts brought in by travellers
July 6, 2017 at 1:49 pm
The Egyptian government’s decision to impose taxes on goods and gifts brought by passengers coming in to the country as of 1 July...
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On one occasion, (and this was done quite accidentally without any forethought or pre-planning) my suitcase was opened up, and I was asked what was concealed in the uppermost plastic bag. On being...
UKNOWN HIPPOCRATES RECIPES ACCIDENTALLY FOUND IN ST. CATHERINE’S MONASTERY ON MT. SINAI
Sinai Peninsula, July 7, 2017
A 6th century AD manuscript containing recipes of the “father of medicine,”...
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You do have to wonder how much more information exists in these monastery archives. These places were a great source of written knowledge and a lot of today’s understanding of ancient history is down...
In my limited experience he is on line a lot of the time.
Not everyone might appreciate his direct, empirical and acerbic approach, but I do.
He has been missing for a week or so and, as far as I...
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I have it on good authority that our friend is abroad lecturing on the care and conservation of Old Kingdom phalluses. Being one of the foremost experts in this somewhat arcane field he is much in...
June 29 2017 Egypt hiked fuel prices by up to 50 percent to help meet the terms of a $12 billion IMF loan deal, a sharper rise than expected by many struggling with soaring living costs and a further...
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Keefy has a later post on electricity prices – this comment applies to both and gas as well.
Basically most utilities have been provided for decades AT LESS THAN THE COST OF PRODUCTION to the whole...
Census workers going door to door in Egypt's teeming neighborhoods and crowded towns are discovering a new country — of more than 20 million people born in the last decade alone.
Family planning...
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And one of the points raised is the main problem. The need for a boy in the family. If non the first time, they will keep having them until one arrives. My friends recently married family members are...
Egypt is more than doubling monthly food subsidies, to 50LE per person from 21LE now, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Tuesday.
Egypt has been hit by soaring inflation since it floated its...
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The new fitness and health center across from me that opened a few months back seems to be doing a roaring business going off how many women are willing to sit outside waiting for a place inside. Of...
Egypt's education ministry has announced new amendments to a law toughening penalties for cheating and other violations during nationwide school exams, following repeated incidents of online leaking...
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Going of some of the young individuals I've met here, even if they had all the answers in front of them, they would still fail the exam. :lol:
Well not recently. But in the past he was, and with an interest in Egypt which predated his first visit and continued after his last.
He did do this sketch of the el Luxor Hotel in 1978 or 1979...
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I'm not a lover of art, with the exception of those matchstick men :up But what is art? Those landscapes and portraits of yesteryear, images of land , sea and air from similar periods? These, to me,...
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