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Orphans Day is a national celebration in Egypt that falls on the first Friday of April. Ahram Online visited an orphanage celebrating at a park in Cairo.
At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai peninsula when Islamic militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on...
At least 19 people have been killed and 25 injured after a bus filled with Egyptian pilgrims crashed in Saudi Arabia, according to Egyptian media reports.
Following years of disorder and neglect at Cairo’s great pyramids, Egypt is launching a renovation program to make the area safer, cleaner and easier to navigate for tourists, and more secure for its...
Tuesday marked one year since Egypt concluded a massive economic conference in the resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, a major event on which the government of President Abdel Fattah...
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Quite honestly it is very difficult to point to any international agreement on either trade or investment in Egypt that is a pure deal. Such deals reported in the Egyptian media in recent times can...
The leaked documents are the records of the IS General Administration of Borders and are comprised of forms filed out by potential recruits who enter the militant group’s claimed territories.
The...
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10% of the groups foreign suicide bombers are Egyptian, meaning that the remaining 90% are not and what percentage of suicide bombers are what Da'esh considers foreign. Statistics don't trust them....
I intend to carry back my heavy duty la creuset fondue set, which operates on meths.
So does anyone know what 'meths is in Arabic phonetically speaking ? cheers... :cool:
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@Who2
The arabic word given to me for this stuff sounded something like SEBERTO
I will second that Newcastle,it is seberto pronounced sperrtow
Gunfire and weddings have long been an element of Egyptian culture. It is always mortifying to hear of the unfortunate accidents that come as a result of gunfire, or gun handling...
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A tragedy maybe,stupidity certainly. Guns in any culture are dangerous. The fact of the matter is you are more likely to be injured with your own weapon than you are to injure or kill someone else....
Egypt drafts bill to ban burqa and Islamic veils in public places.
Legislators have argued that full face veils are un-Islamic and that the Quran only requires women to dress modestly and cover...
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I can fully understand people wishing to cover their hair and heads to protect themselves from sun, sand, etc. But this has nothing to do with religion.
Not about Luxor, but a good piece nonetheless, as normally journalists don't report much on elections beyond Cairo or Alex and this reporter clearly took his time to understand things in depth:
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An interesting read.
The portrayal of Upper Egypt as a patriachal society dominated essentially by a relatively small number of family/tribal elders came as no surprise.
A few years ago I went off into the 'blu on a camel called Clementine.
Organised by a right English eccentric 'nutter adventurer & writer Robert Twigger,
6 of us and three Senussi Bedu from...
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Is that acclimatising or do you mean thawing out? I gather it is a bit nippy there at the moment. Turns a trip out to a hostelry into an arctic adventure ;)
Before the 2011 revolution, thousands of tourists explored Luxor’s temples every day. Now only a few hundred make the visit. Many people have lost...
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My friend was telling me this morning that close to the factory were her brother works near to her village a farmer yesterday uncovered what is believed to be extensive Roman ruins. The area is now...
Following a conference hosted this week in Cairo, which was attended by more than 200 tourism delegates from 25 countries, the Egyptian minister for tourism announced the Cairo Tourism Declaration....
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In my opinion this country is far to vast and open to be able to offer security and protection to each and every individual visitor. Didn't do much good for the Italian guy. There are countries in...
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