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Samih Sawiris on the origins of what started as a playground for him and some friends, but what has developed into a town...and Egypt's premier tourist resort .
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Great film cheers for that.
They say he can often be seen around asking guests about El Gouna...
It's great for a stop over and on the surface seems a success, but talking to many business people...
As I'm alone with the cat for a few weeks I thought I might treat myself to a bit of luxury at El Gouna - La maison Bleue. I've often passed in on the way to the kite surfing beaches.
It...
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Watching a TV programme last night on worldwide hotels and the one featured was in Singapore. A 'basic' room there would have cost £350 per night.
Former president Mubarak has been acquitted of the charges in connection with deaths at the time of the 2011 revolution and has now been released. There is an ongoing inquiry into possible corruption...
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The former autocrat ruled Egypt from 1981 until a popular uprising ousted him on 11 February 2011
Bet its not so popular an uprising now :tk
Interesting. I must get down there before the bulldozers arrive :urm:
Official Maket Design for New Aswan City
Following President Abdel Fattah Sisi’s visit to Aswan, attention to the Southern...
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Well he obviously flew in and didnt travel by road. The road between Luxor and Aswan in my personal experience is the worst road Ive travelled in Egypt between major cities. the journey takes twice...
His comments came after hundreds of people took to the streets in protests across the country over cuts to bread subsidies.
An Egyptian general told the Egyptian people to stop complaining about...
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Exactly JL, maybe he should read up a little on his history, when those that have everything tell those that have nothing to stop complaining then one can predict another revolution on the way. 8)
A video captured by a store’s surveillance camera on Thursday showing a car run over citizens in a narrow street in Egypt has gone viral.
The footage reveals a car speeding in one of the streets of...
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Yesterday my friends sister phoned her to say that they had passed the body of a male dead in the center of the road, covered in newspapers outside the large Christian church. The place was swarming...
In its weekly meeting Wednesday, the Cabinet approved the proposed electronic visa project, to be ready by May.
The project aims to renovate the passport and immigration system to keep pace with the...
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I made a mistake on my last Turkish visa after I had paid for it, I manage to get my own name wrong.... :br
I managed to edit said visa and printed it out, but it mattered not, as no one ever asked...
Interesting interview on BBC HARDTALK with film director Mohamed Diab.
Available in i-Player :
And, for those of us in Egypt, on Podcast :
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Whilst wiling my time away in El Gouna, I watch the adverts on TV which I refuse to accommodate in Luxor.
It has been drawn to my attention that Islam is slipping ever so quietly into the mad...
Going to and from Hurghada through the desert there are numerous pylons, some are big and some smaller, all have cables or wires connecting each to the other. There are also what looks like pylons,...
Egypt bread riots: Protests erupt after subsidy cut hits poor.
Egyptians took to the streets in several cities on Tuesday in angry demonstrations at government cuts to bread subsidies in the face of...
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Bet we don't see a reduction in the number of kids being born - they never help themselves and never take responsibility for their woes. Let them eat cake.
The mega shopping centre - Mall of Egypt - opens tomorrow.
Think Westfield or Bluewater......with artificial ski slopes.
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Have to say, I am envious of them. Would such a construction benefit Luxor? Don't know, but it would benefit me having a proper cinema and branded goods shops on my doorstep. But alas poor Yorick,...
Egypt’s state oil firm, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC), is eyeing four major global consulting firms for the development of a medium-term reform strategy for the Ministry of...
MALL OF EGYPT IS FINALLY OPENING ON MARCH 2ND AND IT HAS THE COUNTRY'S FIRST EVER INDOOR SNOW PARK
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Egypt is about to become home to one of the biggest malls in the...
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Before the big new Thebes development when the land there was practically being given away, I did a feasibility study on developing in Luxor a theme park similar to the Dream Park in Cairo, which was...
I know your supposed to leave Hurghada before sunset to travel to Luxor but does anyone know if there are the same restrictions about travel to Hurghada, I am travelling soon and want to arrive about...
Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi announced on Saturday a number of government decisions including the establishment of an authority for the development of Upper Egypt, which is tasked with...
Health minister Ahmed Emad said the cabinet approved decision to raise prices for 3,000 medicines; as of Thursday.
This is the second wave of increasing medicines prices in less than one year. In...
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Nevertheless, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi affirmed last year that the military’s activities accounted for less than two percent of the country’s overall economic output.
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