tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47869460634224808782024-03-18T05:03:45.954+02:00Egypt Unbound: The Wild RideSuzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.comBlogger419125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-17744883875892436312014-01-24T18:04:00.004+02:002014-01-24T18:04:53.798+02:00Citizen's Arrests and Bombs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Citizen's Arrests and Bombs. That pretty much describes the headlines coming out of Egypt today. With the 25th of January anniversary almost upon us, and the National Police Day one day after, it's of little surprise that tensions are running high. I am just hoping that this weekend passes relatively peacefully and uneventfully. Ya rab.<br />
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Find out more about the bombings in Cairo today below from <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/92374.aspx" target="_blank">al-Ahram</a>.<br />
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<br />Hours later in Giza, one person was killed when a primitive bomb exploded after being thrown at a moving police vehicle near a metro station, deputy Giza security chief Mahmoud Farouk told state TV. At least 11 others were reportedly wounded in the attack.The terrorist attack began when a large blast ripped through a police building in central Cairo, killing four and injuring 76 others, according to the health ministry.</div>
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In a third explosion, a small bomb went off later on Friday morning at a police station in Talbiya district, also in Giza, near the pyramids. The attack did not cause any casualties, the interior ministry said.</div>
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Later on in the afternoon, Giza’s Haram district witnessed an explosion at Radobis Cinema Theater, leaving at least one dead according to state TV.</div>
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"It's a vile, desperate attempt by evil terrorist forces to disrupt the success Egypt and its people have achieved in the [transitional] roadmap and the passing of the new constitution," Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi commented, in reference to the Cairo bomb.</div>
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The first explosion, which took place at the Cairo Security Directorate in Bab El-Khalk district, blew out the windows of the building and stripped off parts of its façade.</div>
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"I was manning the building along with my fellow conscripts shortly after dawn when the explosion took place," police conscript Ahmed Ibrahim who was injured in the blast told Al-Ahram Arabic from his hospital bed.</div>
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"I didn’t believe I had survived until I was pulled out from under the rubble."</div>
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According to a statement by the interior ministry, a car exploded at the cement barriers surrounding the main Egyptian police headquarters in central Cairo. Initial investigations showed a remotely-detonated car bomb was behind the blast, a security official told Ahram .</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin-top: 10px !important; outline: none; width: 650px !important;">Three attackers parked the explosive-laden vehicle and fled in another before it was let off, South Cairo senior prosecutor Ismail Hafiz said, denying that a charred body found near the exploded vehicle was that of a bomber.</span></div>
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TV footage showed wrecked floors of the multi-storey building and a damaged facade of the nearby Museum of Islamic Art. The minister of state for antiquities told journalists in a statement after touring the site that some artefacts and items inside the museum had also been damaged. He said the 19th-century museum building, which was recently rennovated in a multimillion-dollar project, will need to be "rebuilt."</div>
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Photos show that the building's roof has caved in, floors are covered with shattered glass and wood debris, and the display cases housing the museum artefacts have been smashed.</div>
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An Ahram Online reporter at the scene of the blast said she saw a badly mangled vehicle stained with blood parked in front of the police compound. Some of the building's walls have collapsed and a gaping crater was left in the ground.</div>
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The attack has also caused water pipes in the area to explode, and vacuum excavators were sent to remove the water pooling in the street, the reporter added.</div>
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The violence came only one day ahead of the third anniversary of the 2011 uprising that toppled president Hosni Mubarak, raising the spectre of further violence. Police have been set to deploy around the country to secure key security sites.</div>
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In a statement, the president pledged to "severely punish" those involved in "planning, financing, inciting, participating in or executing" such attacks, saying that tampering with state security is a "red line."<br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" />He added that Egypt had quashed an Islamist insurgency that raged in the 1990s and "would relentlessly rout [terrorism] and root its culprits out.<br style="outline: none;" /><br style="outline: none;" />"Such terrorist attacks will only unite the will of Egyptians to move forward towards achieving the goals of the 25 January and the 30 revolution … and to carry out Egyptians' upcoming roadmap." the Egyptian presidency added.</div>
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A spate of recent explosions in densely populated areas has raised fears that militant activity in the border Sinai Peninsula, which has spiked since Morsi's removal, would take its toll on other parts of the country.</div>
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"They don't want the people to celebrate," Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim told reporters while inspecting the explosion site in Cairo, adding that he was certain that "millions would take to the streets" on Saturday to celebrate the revolution nonetheless. He added that the "despicable attack" would not hamper police "in their fierce war against black terrorism."</div>
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After the explosion, large crowds of onlookers gathered at the Cairo site, chanting slogans demanding the "execution" of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.</div>
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The group's official English language Twitter account has denied responsibility for the Friday attacks, saying that it "strongly condemn(s) cowardly bombings in Cairo, express(es) condolences to families of those killed, demand(s) swift investigations."</div>
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The Brotherhood was designated a terrorist organisation by the cabinet in December, although it has persistently denied any links with ongoing terrorist attacks.</div>
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In December, a bomb attack at a security headquarters in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura killed 16 people, mostly policemen.</div>
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A bomb also exploded outside a Cairo court just before polls were to set to open in last week's constitutional referendum, leaving no casualties.</div>
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An Al-Qaeda-inspired group, Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, has claimed responsibility for most of the recent attacks in which scores of policemen and soldiers were killed. The group says the violence is in revenge for the killings and arrests of Islamists as part of a broad security crackdown. But there was no immediate claim of responsibility for Friday's attack.</div>
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The group also claimed a failed assassination attempt on the interior minister in Cairo in September.</div>
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Tensions were simmering in other parts of the country on Friday as violent clashes broke out later in the day between supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, and police and opposing civilians in several governorates. At least one, a school pupil, was killed north of Cairo as pro-Morsi protesters fought with police in Damietta.</div>
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Violence also flared during protests in Alexandria, Giza, and Ismailia.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-40970086100952786062014-01-22T21:11:00.002+02:002014-01-22T21:11:46.107+02:00Radio Silence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I never wanted to be this blogger where the page would just die down for a while, but sometimes life gets in the way. Quite a few projects underway at the moment, one of which will include loads of recipes - and I will select the best to post here! I've missed this, it's amazing how much blogging can help the mind unwind. So with that said, glad to be back! </div>
Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-61790651829361999422013-12-13T17:44:00.002+02:002013-12-13T17:44:31.809+02:00Snow in Egypt!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Egypt is good at making history. It's at it again today. Thanks <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/its-snowing-in-cairo-for-the-first-time-in-112-years">buzzfeed </a>for the photo collection!<br />
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Snow in Ras El Bar, North Egypt. Unbelievable. Via<a href="http://twitter.com/AlMasryAlYoum" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0077ee; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@AlMasryAlYoum</a></div>
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Ungrateful <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Egypt" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0077ee; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">#Egypt</a>! Unlike any other leader, Sisi gives you snow for Christmas! 2 bad there aren't any Christians left</div>
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Incredible. Snow in Cairo, Egypt this AM - the first such occurrence in 112 years. Via <a href="http://twitter.com/AmrElGabry" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #0077ee; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@AmrElGabry</a>.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-87231987671368880142013-11-17T17:19:00.001+02:002013-11-17T17:19:50.473+02:00A Taste of Egypt: Baked Zucchini Fries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Okay, so it's not entirely an Egyptian recipe, but they use Zucchini (also known as courgettes to us Brits) for a host of recipes. Here's a quick and easy recipe for Baked Zucchini Fries that are sure to be a hit with friends and family.<br />
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-52570606852514435202013-11-08T17:10:00.002+02:002013-11-08T17:10:46.420+02:0010 Reasons Egypt is a Great Country for an Expat<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Egypt recently ranked as one of the worst countries for expats to live in, much to the surprise of many expats that have happily lived there. Firstly, let me apologise for the blogging silence, I've barely had time to stop let alone blog. I promise to make an active change to that from today. (I'm thinking the Taste of Egypt section may need updating? ;) )<div>
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So here's an article that, in my opinion, surmises what can make living in Egypt as an expat great, and phoie to anyone that says otherwise. Sure, it has its moments when living in the country can really grind on you and wear you down, but on those days you should either go on holiday, or take a breath and remind yourself of the beauty that living in Egypt includes. </div>
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10 Reasons Egypt is a Great Country for an Expat (<a href="http://scoopempire.com/10-reasons-egypt-fantastic-place-expat/#at_pco=smlwn-1.0&at_tot=1&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0">source</a>)</div>
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A recent <a href="http://www.expatexplorer.hsbc.com/#/countries" style="color: #fe4e47; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">HSBC study</a> ranked Egypt as the worst country to be an expat, with its political and economic instability and rising xenophobia.</div>
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As a foreigner living in Cairo, I wholeheartedly disagree. While Egypt may not be ideal for all types of expats and while I do have intense bouts of homesickeness that leave me Googling the next flight outta here, I love living in Egypt and know many expats who say the same. Here’s why:</div>
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<strong>1. Cost of Living</strong></div>
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According to <a href="http://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/comparison/washington-d-c/cairo" style="color: #fe4e47; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Expatistan</a>, which neatly breaks down cost-of-living comparisons between cities by Food, Housing, Clothes, Transportation, Personal Care and Entertainment, Cairo is 60% cheaper than Washington, D.C., the city I was living in before moving to Egypt. With heavily favorable exchange rates, foreign currencies go a long way in this country.</div>
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<strong>2. Opportunities</strong></div>
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I have a European friend – fresh grad, no solid experience – who landed a job at a reputable NGO here simply because she was a native English speaker, had interest in the subject and knew somebody who knew somebody who used to work there. She never would have been accepted for an equivalent position back in her home country. Here, the field of competition is ridiculously smaller and, thus, opportunities are greater. Yea, it’s not fair, but it’s true.</div>
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<strong>3. Culture and History</strong></div>
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The cradle of civilization, the mother of the world, home to two-thirds of the globe’s historical monuments and the last surviving Wonder of the World, centuries of rich culture and arts (from Pharaonic hieroglyphs to the graff on Mohamed Mahmoud St.), the gateway to Africa and a beacon of the Arab region… I mean, come on, there’s an entire academic subject area dedicated solely to the study of Egypt. And if you have kids, how lucky are they to grow up in the middle of all of this?</div>
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<strong>4. Hidden Gems</strong></div>
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For a foreigner, Egypt is filled with fascinating oddities, well-kept secret spots, off-the-beaten-path marvels – and one of the best things to do here is explore. This is great for backpackers and adventure-seekers on holiday, but even for expats the allure lasts. And for those who have been here long enough for the wonder to dissipate, a comfortable sense of home takes it place.</div>
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While Egypt’s political scene is a downside for some, it’s a draw for a politics buff like me – and many others, including journalists, academics, activists and members of civil society (yes, we’re all spies). I’m incredibly grateful to be able to witness, first-hand, history in the making instead of through a TV screen showing media coverage that’s incomplete, at best, or downright fabricated, at worst.</div>
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I used to hate it. But now I get it… I think. Maybe I just haven’t been here long enough yet to unlearn the political correctness that was drilled into me during my upbringing. In any case, there’s nothing like it and the Aussies and Kiwis especially love it.</div>
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<strong>7. Egyptian Hospitality</strong></div>
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Another friend – total American white girl, sore thumb – tells a tale of how she had someone visiting from home who wanted to try “the famous Egyptian hashish”. True story: This girl went to Sayeda Zeinab sometime between sunset and curfew, tip-toed her way around the blood puddles in the street (it was Eid), picked a guy at random (who also happened to be selling knives) and after a nice smoke session, scored a generous finger of mind-blowing<em> </em>hash for 75 LE because she said it was for her tourist friend who wanted to sample the local goods. Egyptian hospitality at its finest.</div>
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<strong>8. The Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the desert, the Nile…</strong></div>
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I feel so lucky to live in Egypt and have such gorgeous locales just a short flight (or long road trip) away. From Siwa to Sinai, Aswan to Alexandria and everything in between, this country’s natural wonders never fail to <a href="http://scoopempire.com/10-photos-remind-beautiful-egypt/#.UnupQ4WrucE" style="color: #fe4e47; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">take my breath away</a>.</div>
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<strong>9. The Conveniences</strong></div>
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Some things Egyptians take for granted, but for most expats just aren’t the norm. Everything delivers at all hours. Forget the water cooler, the office boy will make you coffee. The ubiquitous <em>koshk</em> in all of its 24-hour, convenient glory. The extra 3 LE of credit you can get from Vodafone if you dial *3# when you’re running low. Otlob.com. And you can get pretty much anything in downtown Cairo. Want to change some Euro on the black market? There’s a sidewalk cafe on the left side at the end of Talaat Haarb street. Whoever’s sitting at the chair at the turn of the corner will give you the most current rates. Negotiation, obviously, is a must.</div>
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<strong>10. The People</strong></div>
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My Egyptian friends would kill me if I didn’t include them (love you!). But seriously: Here, you’re treated like family. And while nothing can replace blood, no one here will ever let you sit alone, there’s always someone to call or somewhere to go if you run into any kind of trouble, and people, from your <em>bawab</em> to your landlady, genuinely care.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-33547893807438092472013-09-25T18:12:00.001+02:002013-09-25T18:12:06.134+02:00Hopes for Egypt's Tourism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Should be interesting to see if this pans out or not! Sorry for the blogging silence, I will have plenty to update shortly :) According to recent Tweets from Hurghada, the governor is hopeful and anticipating 100% occupancy rates in hotels in the Red Sea in the coming future. With TUI and other travel agencies resuming flights to Egypt, it may be a far stretch to hope for 100% but it is a positive sign that things may hopefully be on the uptick again in the devastated tourist regions such as Hurghada.<br />
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The article below, from <a href="http://www.zawya.com/story/Hotels_feel_heat_of_Egypt_chaos-ZAWYA20130923062110/?weeklynewsletter&zawyaemailmarketing">Zawya.com</a>, provides startling insight into just how much the tourism industry in Egypt has suffered.<br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">Egypt's hotel occupancy rates continue to fall as the country's hospitality sector reels from the continued political turmoil.</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">Cairo hotel room occupancy rates declined to 31% in the first half of this year from 39% in the first six months of 2012, while occupancy in Sharm Al-Sheikh was flat at 70% during the same period, according to a new survey.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">Average room rates across the country's hospitality industry saw double-digit growth as the sector showed signs of life in the first six months of the year, according to management consultancy EY.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">"Through the first half of 2013, both the Hurghada and Sharm El Shaikh hospitality markets witnessed a substantial increase in RevPAR compared H1 2012. Both resort hotspots achieved RevPAR growth of 57.6% and 27.6% respectively over the same period in 2012," EY said.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">But that growth appears to have been short-lived as tourism figures have plunged in the past month and places like Luxor saw occupancy rates shrink to 5%.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">As empty hotel rooms litter the coastlines and main Egyptian cities, the industry is yearning for the glory days when visitors from all over the world came to marvel at Egypt's archaeological riches.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><img align="baseline" alt="" border="0" hspace="0" src="http://www.zawya.com/images/features/130923-eh-01.gif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">Egyptians had taken special pride in showcasing their heritage and had built a sector that contributed a little over 12% of the economy and was a major job creator, with one in every eight Egyptian involved in the sector.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">But the industry has faced one setback after another since the departure of Hosni Mubarak's government.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><img align="baseline" alt="" border="0" hspace="0" src="http://www.zawya.com/images/features/130923-eh-02.gif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">After massive upheavals, Mohammad Morsi's government came to power but its hardline religious mandate was always going to create friction with the free-wheeling and liberal hospitality sector.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">While Morsi pledged not to impose the Muslim Brotherhood doctrine on the hospitality sector, his decision to nominate a member of the Islamist group Gamaa Islamiya -- which has been accused of killing scores of people in Luxor in 1997 - as the governor of Luxor, shocked the industry.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;">Luckily, that decision never came to pass as the Muslim Brotherhood government was ousted by the army in a largely popular coup two weeks later.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; text-align: justify;" /><b style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21.59375px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">TRAVEL WARNINGS</b><br />
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As Egypt's political players have taken turns at running the country, the uncertainty has hit the tourism industry hard.<br />Over the past two years, European governments have issued travel warnings, further exacerbating the situation.<br />In August, tourism minister Hisham Zaazou issued a YouTube video, urging governments to reconsider the negative advisories.<br />"The areas particularly in the Red Sea and Southern Sinai are quite safe and sound," the minister said in a video message aimed at travel agencies.<br />"One of the reasons I am saying that is in spite of the fact that there is a curfew in Egypt in many places, it does not include the Red Sea area, the Sharm El Sheikh and Southern Sinai area. That is a reflection that the government is comfortable [with receiving] any guest [and can guarantee that] they will] enjoy their time in Egypt, [which is] sound and safe. We accordingly, ask these different governments particularly in Europe... to lift even on a gradual basis the negative travel advisories."<br />Europeans constitute the majority of international visitors to Egypt, but a number of international travel agencies have shunned the country's historical treasures and sun-drenched resorts for the far safer shores of places like Morocco and the UAE.</div>
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">TOURIST TRAFFIC SLIDES</b><br />As such, Egypt's international tourist arrivals have fallen from just over 14 million in 2010 to 11.2 million in 2012 - a decline of 32.4% in the past two years. It was even worse in 2011 when less than 10 million entered the country, as tourists balked at the sight of a political crisis unfolding in the country.<br />Tourism receipts have also fallen from USD 12.5 billion in 2010 to USD 9.9 billion in 2012, according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization.<br />Not surprisingly, no new hotels were opened in the market in the second quarter of the year, but the Egyptian Hotel Association notes that at least 29 hotels with nearly 8,000 hotel rooms are under development in Cairo alone.<br />Some of these projects are likely to be delayed or pushed back, as tourists stay away.<br />Egyptian newspaper El-Masry Al-Youm reported that around 86 of the 248 Red Sea Governorate hotels have closed since the political troubles began. Shaker Abdel Azim, a board member of one of the tourist villages in Sharm El-Sheikh, says that as many as 35,000 Egyptians have lost their job as hotels closed down.<br />In an attempt to revive the industry, Egypt's interim authorities are partnering with airlines and travel agencies with attractive packages to lure customers, but the country needs more than a marketing campaign to bring tourists back.<br />It will take months of political stability and predictability of policy - as well as the absence of Egypt from the world's front pages - to assure tourists that the country is, once again, ready to welcome them.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-90487797220015796542013-09-05T19:35:00.004+02:002013-09-05T19:36:35.645+02:00Bomb Attack Targets Interior Minister in Egypt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'll follow up this post in the next couple of days with some of the awkwardly hilarious stories that have surfaced from it, but in the meantime to keep you updated here's the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/05/us-egypt-protests-idUSBRE9840BP20130905?irpc=932" target="_blank">Reuter's </a>article detailing today's bomb attack in Cairo that targetted the Interior Minister.<br />
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<span class="location" style="font-weight: bold;">CAIRO</span> | <span class="timestamp" style="margin: 0px;">Thu Sep 5, 2013 1:03pm EDT</span></div>
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(Reuters) - Egypt's interior minister survived an assassination attempt unscathed on Thursday when a car bomb blew up his convoy and gunmen strafed his vehicle, and he said later a wave of terrorism by opponents of the military-installed government was just beginning.</div>
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The minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, has been involved in overseeing a violent crackdown on supporters of Mohamed Mursi, the elected Islamist president who was overthrown two months ago by the army following mass protests against his rule.</div>
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No organization immediately claimed responsibility for the first attempt to kill an Egyptian minister since the 1990s, but it appeared to bear the hallmarks of an Islamist attack.</div>
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Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood - accused by the government of terrorism and inciting violence - condemned it.</div>
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But the sophisticated attack, possibly involving a suicide bomber with a large quantity of explosives, as well as a follow-up fusillade by two gunmen, showed the risk that Egypt's political crisis could spawn a wave of Islamist attacks like those in the 1980s and 1990s.</div>
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"What happened today is not the end but the beginning," Ibrahim said.</div>
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The Interior Ministry said the blast damage indicated that a 50-kg (110-pound) bomb was used.</div>
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Footage taken by a bystander and posted on YouTube showed a vehicle ablaze as gunshots rang out for two minutes. A distant, unidentified voice could also be heard defiantly shouting the Islamic rallying cry "Allahu Akbar! (God is Greatest!)"</div>
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A government video showed bullet holes all along the side of a white car identified as Ibrahim's, and security sources said police had killed two attackers.</div>
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A Reuters reporter saw blood and flesh scattered on the ground amid the charred wreckage of several cars.</div>
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"It is likely that it was a suicide explosion as a result of a high explosive device," an Interior Ministry statement said.</div>
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The head of Cairo security, Osama Al-Saghir, said the ambush began seconds after Ibrahim left his house in the capital's Nasr City on his way to work. A car driving ahead of the convoy exploded and the minister's armored vehicle also came under heavy gunfire, Saghir told the newspaper Al-Ahram.</div>
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Senior Brotherhood leader Amr Darrag issued a statement on behalf of the Brotherhood-led Anti-Coup Alliance saying it strongly condemned the attack.</div>
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Mursi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, was deposed on July 3. The new authorities have imposed a state of emergency and nightly curfews, and Mursi and most of the Brotherhood's leaders have been arrested.</div>
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More than 900 of its supporters have been killed, many of them when security forces stormed pro-Mursi protest camps in Cairo on August 14, and at least 2,000 rounded up. About 100 members of the security forces have also been killed in the political violence.</div>
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The Muslim Brotherhood says it is committed to peaceful resistance and has twice in the last week brought thousands onto the streets to denounce what it calls a coup against democracy.</div>
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Ibrahim said this week he had been told of plans to kill him and that "foreign elements" were involved. Armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave him an armored car, he said.</div>
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The ministry said 10 policemen had been wounded, some of them critically, as well as 11 civilians. Ibrahim said a police officer and a small child had both lost legs.</div>
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Many Egyptians have expressed support for the crackdown.</div>
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But the Brotherhood, which came to power in elections after the overthrow of general-turned-president Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, says the allegations of terrorism are a pretext for neutralizing it and returning Egypt to the repression of the Mubarak era.</div>
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"This is sad," said bystander Ahmed Mahmoud, 32. "Innocent people have died today but the government needs to know that terrorism will bring more terrorism and violence will bring more violence.</div>
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"So when they use violence to disperse protesters, despite our opinion of those Brotherhood protesters, what did they expect to get in return? Peace and prosperity? They will only get more violence."</div>
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An Islamist insurgency in the 1990s destabilized Egypt and badly damaged the tourism industry, one of its economic mainstays, which has again been ravaged by the upheavals of the past two years.</div>
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Islamist militants, who had taken advantage of a security vacuum left by Mubarak's fall to establish themselves in the relatively lawless North Sinai, have stepped up attacks on security forces in the area since Mursi was toppled.</div>
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Gamaa Islamiya, a group involved in 1990s attacks that has since renounced violence, denied any link to Thursday's assault.</div>
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"These are new, small, unknown networks, independent of any organization," said Kamal Habib, an expert on Islamist groups. "This was expected. We said it a million times."</div>
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Nasr City was the scene of Egypt's most famous assassination - Anwar Sadat, Mubarak's predecessor as president, was killed by Islamist militants on October 6, 1981.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-33108139126985464612013-08-31T17:25:00.002+02:002013-08-31T17:25:25.664+02:00Red Sea Occupancy Rates Drop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In this reposted article from <a href="http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/08/31/red-sea-hotel-occupancies-expected-to-decrease-80-as-italy-and-russia-issue-travel-warnings-against-egypt/" target="_blank">Daily News Egypt</a>, it paints a grim picture of the current situation with tourists in Egypt. K was on a boat trip today and he said although there were quite a few Egyptians on board, there was not one foreign face to be seen. Similarly, yesterday on the tourists strip of Mamsha there were plenty of Egyptians around, but no foreigners. Please don't let the local media discourage you, Hurghada and the Red Sea are still safe to visit!<br />
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Occupancy rates for the Laguna Vista hotel in Sharm El-Sheikh have dropped from 90% to 18% since the dispersal of pro-Morsi sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adaweya and Al-Nahda Squares last month, according to Ahmed Mohamed, official in charge of reservations at the hotel. He expected these numbers to remain the same until at least the middle of next month.</div>
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He stated that Russia and Italy have placed travel warnings on Egypt set to last until 25 September, which have led to an 80% decreases seen in the region’s hotel occupancy rates.</div>
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Hatem Munir, Secretary of the Red Sea Egyptian Hotel Association stated that tourist rates of those coming into Egypt have dropped to 15%.</div>
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He said that hotel occupancy rates for the Red Sea region as a whole have dropped from 80% to 35% since the forced dispersal of the sit-ins.</div>
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Despite the insistence of hotel managers in Hurghada that the city’s occupancy rates have remained stable, Munir stated: “total occupancy rates in the city currently do not exceed 35%; 15% are foreigners, with the remaining 20% being Egyptians”.</div>
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He stated that Egyptian tourism within the country had also begun to drop with the end of the summer season and the beginning of the upcoming school year.</div>
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He went on to say that a number of Turkish-owned Russian tourist companies, such as Pegas, have taken advantage of Egypt’s political crisis to redirect tourists to Turkey, and away from destinations within Egypt.</div>
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He stated that companies were monitoring the outcome of the 30 August protests called for by supporters of former president Mohamed Morsi, despite the fact that the Red Sea region has not witnessed protests like that of Cairo and Alexandria.</div>
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Wasim Mahi Al-Din, Chairman of the Alexandria hotel group San Giovanni, stated that the city’s current occupancy rates were currently between 25% and 35%, compared to 80% seen during the same season in previous years.</div>
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He stated that most of those currently staying in the city’s hotels were Egyptians enjoying their summer vacations, compared to previous years which saw large numbers of Arab tourists travelling from abroad.</div>
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Mahi Al-Din said he expected these rates to decrease even further to 10% in the days following the 30 August protests called for by supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-13142640784525121032013-08-18T18:10:00.002+02:002013-08-18T18:10:53.451+02:00City Tour of Hurghada<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A video made by a friend of mine, Anja Buchloh, who lives in Hurghada demonstrating the situation as it is these days. She includes interviews with locals and tourists, who many are being led to believe are being held inside their hotels. The video is in German and English, and I highly recommend checking it out.<br />
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Addendum: For some reason blogger isn't finding the video to insert into here, so please check it out by clicking <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QESAQ7DfwgQ" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </div>
Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-86826825925870176482013-08-17T20:24:00.001+02:002013-08-17T20:24:20.345+02:00How to Stage a Protest MB Style<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This YouTube video would appear to show Muslim Brotherhood protesters staging an apparent demonstration, and striking the perfect pose for media hounds to get that ideal photograph showing the injured demonstrators. Unfortunately there's no indication as to when this video was shot, but it should serve as a reminder to always question what you are seeing as 'facts' these days. <div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-22024157075539289542013-08-17T19:54:00.001+02:002013-08-17T20:09:36.197+02:00The Media Fallacy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Many of us have been raised to blindly accept anything that's reported on the news as truthful, honest, and transparent. But when you actually start learning more about the mechanisms of media and the driving force behind most media outlets (namely, sales), you quickly start to lose that feeling of transparency and objectivity when watching / reading news stories. This is particularly evident when you yourself have experienced a situation that's being reported on, such as what's going on in Egypt these days (or indeed back in the days of the 2011 revolution).<br />
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One of the media outlets that continues to get flack for their biased reporting is Al-Jazeera channel. In July, an <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/media/2013/07/09/Al-Jazeera-employees-in-Egypt-quit-over-editorial-line-.html" target="_blank">estimated 22 reporters</a> working for the network left their posts objecting to what they described a blatant bias in favour of the Muslim Brotherhood. One reporter who walked out was former Al Jazeera Arabic anchor Karem Mahmoud, who in an interview with Cairo Scene <a href="http://jewishlinkbc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1116:al-jazeera-exodus-22-reporters-quit-in-protest-of-bias&catid=150:news&Itemid=562" target="_blank">said</a>: <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">The coverage over the last few weeks was the tipping point – especially the airing of extreme speeches over the last few days, which have added to the crisis Egypt is seeing right now. There has been a strong insistence of airing unacceptable statements by some parties, as well giving much more space and air time to one group over another.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“Al Jazeera has long been perceived as being close to the Muslim Brotherhood, and whether the accusations of bias are true or not, it appears to be severely hurting the network’s ability to report on the crisis in Egypt. At a military-organized news conference earlier today, reporters from the network were kicked out, the Associated Press reports, while Reuters reports that some of the station’s offices were raided by the military (though it remains on-air).”</span></div>
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I have been watching Al-Jazeera over the past few days, interspersed with marathon news reading sessions and channel surfing. The blatant bias displayed on numerous channels has me begging the question: Are they seeing a different Egypt than we are? The number of times I have heard "peaceful protesters" in the past few days astounds me. Now I'm not claiming I believe one side more than the other, but I cannot readily accept that Al-Jazeera and a host of other channels have simply chosen to ignore the reports of armed protesters, and ignore the plethora of videos depicting armed individuals (be they protesters, thugs, whomever) roaming throughout Cairo. It astounds me, and leaves me fully sympathetic with many Egyptians who feel their stories are being overlooked by the often very one-sided reporting we are seeing. It was evident last night when listening to Al-Jazeera interview a Doctor via the telephone who was allegedly trapped inside the al-Fath mosque in Cairo claim while on the phone that there was live fire shooting from outside. Yet what he obviously failed to realise was that at that very moment, live coverage of the front of the mosque was being shown, with one crucial element missing: Live fire. Even the reporter questioned it, but then quickly moved on. </div>
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It would appear that I am not the only one who has picked up on these many discrepancies, and I wish I could take credit for having grabbed my phone and snapped <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=536186759767774" target="_blank">this video</a> last night, but here is just one example of the questionable reporting by Al-Jazeera during these tense times. You'll note the blood on this man's shirt (and this video was looped repeatedly last night as 'proof' of the injured protesters) as the individual examining him lifts his shirt up in search of the wound that this blood is seeping from...and there is nothing there. O.o So what's really going on here? </div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-35043950301051884852013-08-15T16:02:00.000+02:002013-08-15T16:02:10.975+02:00Is Egypt Safe to Visit?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
According to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2013/aug/15/egypt-travel-advice-safe-sharm-el-sheik?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> and the UK's Foreign Office (FCO), the answer is "yes" as long as you're heading for a holiday in the sunny Red Sea! Wayhay!<br />
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The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">Foreign Office (FCO) currently advises against all but essential travel</a> to the country, except for the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/red-sea" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Red Sea">Red Sea</a> resorts, such as Sharm el-Sheikh and Dahab. Meanwhile, the Egyptian daily newspaper al Alhram reports that the <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/79035/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Eg%20ypts-archaeological-sites-and-museums-closed-ind.aspx" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="">ministry of state for antiquities has closed all archaeological sites and museums across Egypt</a>.</div>
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British Airways says it has altered flights schedules to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/cairo" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Cairo">Cairo</a> so that they do not land in the evening, into the dusk-to-dawn curfew that has been imposed across the capital and other major areas. "We are keeping the situation in Egypt under constant review," a British Airways spokesperson said. "We are also offering customers the option of rebooking to a later date, or to another destination."</div>
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Britain's biggest travel operator, Thomson and First Choice, states: "The majority of our customers are in Sharm el-Sheikh which is a considerable distance – indeed, an eight-hour drive – from Cairo. There have been no related incidents in Sharm el-Sheikh or any of the other popular Red Sea tourist areas." Booking conditions for the resort destinations of Sharm el Sheikh, Marsa Alam, Taba and Hurghada remain "as normal", with tourists flying into the resorts airports. The operator currently has 11,769 British tourists in Egypt.</div>
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The vast majority of travellers heading to the Red Sea resorts fly there directly. EasyJet runs flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, which land outside of curfew hours. A spokesperson for the airline said the company can refund tickets that have already been booked, but added they haven't seen any demand for this.</div>
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The UK travel association Abta also states that conditions relating to travel to Red Sea resorts are continuing as normal, although customers travelling outside of this area "will be offered the option of deferring their date of travel, transferring to another destination or having a full refund for as long as the advice remains in place". It assures that: "Red Sea resorts are largely self-contained and autonomous with the majority of customers staying in large complexes, often all-inclusive with a wide selection of bars and restaurants."</div>
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But the FCO has further cautions on what travellers should do when they actually get to these resorts. Its latest statement says: "Travel advice for Red Sea resorts remains unchanged but local authorities in Sharm el-Sheikh have temporarily stopped tourist excursions. In Hurghada the police have advised tourists to remain within hotel grounds. We advise British tourists to follow the regulations set by the local authorities and to obey curfews. British tourists should also ensure they keep valid identification with them at all times."</div>
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Travel journalist Matthew Teller, who specialises in the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/travel/middleeast" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Middle East">Middle East</a>, says that there is an inherent difficulty around travel advice in such cases.</div>
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"What the FCO does or doesn't say rules the roost in terms of what tour operators can and can't offer clients." Even if it doesn't seem like you can do much while you're there, major tour operators aren't likely to let you change plans if you're booked to travel to an area the FCO has deemed to be safe for travel.</div>
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Meanwhile, cruise operators MSC, Costa and Holland America Line are all reported to have pulled their Egypt-bound ships. This latest crisis will be a sharp blow to the Egyptian tourism industry, which is struggling to recover in the turbulent period following the uprising of 2011, which deposed Hosni Mubarak.</div>
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In 2010, a record 14m tourists arrived in Egypt and the industry represented 13% of GDP, directly or indirectly employing one in seven workers. But even before the recent crisis, the Egyptian tourism federation estimated hotel occupancy rates in Cairo to be around 15% while in Luxor – the site of the Valley of the Kings, that figure was barely in single digits.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-22712312715760469392013-08-14T12:00:00.000+02:002013-08-14T12:00:47.710+02:00Cairo Clear Out Live Updates<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The day of the clear out has arrived, and as was to be expected the MB protesters who have been camped out in Rabaa for weeks now are not leaving easily. <a href="http://cairoscene.com/ViewArticle.aspx?AId=1462" target="_blank">Cairoscene </a>is providing live updates throughout the day, but as of 12 pm today these are the updates. I hope for an ultimately peaceful solution to his clear out, but unfortunately I don't think anyone is really expecting that.<br />
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11.45 - State TV: Police station in Waraq broken into, weapons stolen by pro-Morsi protestors. </div>
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11.42 - Protests erupt across El Fayoum, with all routes leading to the governorate having been closed off. Reports state that a Coptic organisation has been attacked in the area.</div>
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11.41 - Clashes at Raba'a Adaweya continue. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/mosaaberizing" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@</a><span class="hP" id=":23o" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/mosaaberizing" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mosaaberizing</a>:</span></div>
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11.36 - Egyptian Cabinet of Ministers to hold emergency meeting later today.</div>
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11.35 - Ministry of Health reports the deaths of 5 policemen.</div>
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11.34 - Al Haram Street closed in both directions at tunnel (Giza Square end) by pro-Morsi protestors.</div>
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11.30 - Pro-Morsi supporters gather rocks from Heliopolis/Nasr City tram line. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/kfahim" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@KFahim</a>:</div>
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11.20 - MoI is said to have gathered intelligence that suggests Muslim Brotherhood leaders have called upon protestors to attack police stations across Cairo.</div>
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11.10 - Morsi supporters close Cairo Ring Road in several locations.</div>
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11.09 - State TV: Violent clashes between security forces and protestors on El Nasr Street.</div>
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11.07 - State TV: 6th October Bridge in Cairo completely closed.</div>
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11.00 - Pro-Morsi rally congregates at Al-Fath Mosque in Ramsis Square.</div>
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10.53 - Reports that church in Sohag has been set ablaze are true. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/EgyptianStreets/" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@EgyptianStreets</a>:</div>
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10.52 - Ministry of Aviation assures all flights in and out of Egypt operating as normal.</div>
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10.43 - Pro-Morsi alliance announces 20 marches across Cairo today.</div>
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10.36 - MoI reports 200 arrested at El Nahda clear-out.</div>
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10.32 - There are reports that Muslim Brotherhood leaders Safwat El Hegazi and Mohamed Beltagy are being surrounded by police forces in a residence near Raba'a Square.</div>
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10.22 - The Central Bank of Egypt has announced that banks will be closed at 12pm today.</div>
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10.17 - Video shows armed pro-Morsi protestors in Gamaet El Dewal Street, Mohandiseen.</div>
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10.15 - Tear gas fired in Raba'a as police forces close in on sit-ins. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/soltanlife" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@SoltanLife</a>:</div>
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10.12 - Churches in Sohag, Upper Egypt and Heliopolis, Cairo are said to have been attacked in retaliation to sit-in clear-outs.</div>
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10.05 - Live ammunition seized at El Nahda. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/3mo_shehab" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@3mo_Shehab</a>:</div>
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10.03 - Protests opposing the sit-in clear-outs have errupted in Suez and Alexandria.</div>
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9.58 - Tear gas is fired at Mostafa Mahmoud, forcing pro-Morsi demonstrators to extend their sit-in to Batal Ahmed Abdel-Aziz Street, Mohandiseen. Photo via <a href="https://twitter.com/jgulhane" style="color: #00aced; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@JGulhane</a>:</div>
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9.43 - Ministry of Interior claims 5 dead and over 50 injured in sit-in clear-outs in Nahada and Raba'a Adaweya.</div>
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9.42 - Trains from Upper Egypt to Cairo have been stopped.</div>
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9.41 - El Nahada sit-ins regrouping at Mostafa Mahmoud Square, Mohandiseen.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-55885653848839373422013-08-12T20:36:00.000+02:002013-08-12T20:36:00.403+02:00Where to Go: South Beach<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The newest beach bar to open in Hurghada is South Beach, conveniently located on the touristic strip on Sheraton Road, opposite the Moon Beach Hotel.<br />
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South Beach boasts European run management, catering to all kinds of individuals, but taking service above and beyond the 'average' that is seen in many other beach bars in the tourist town.<br />
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South Beach has spacious sunbeds and easy access to a clear beach and gorgeous swimming. They offer food and drink throughout the day, and night-time entertainment throughout the week ranging from live music to DJs blasting the hottest tracks of the day. As they say themselves<span style="font-family: inherit;">: "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;">European owned and managed, South Beach is built from the ground up, directly on the beach using only natural materials to the highest standards; South Beach raises the bar in terms of quality and service.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;">Our kitchen is state of the art and the menu will be something different from what you normally find in this area, simple yet delicious using only fresh produce as well as herbs and spices fro</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 12.727272033691406px;">m our own garden. The bar offers a wide selection of cocktails, beers and wines and a few of our own specials of course."</span></span><br />
This Eid marked South Beach's big opening weekend, and the reviews have been stellar. So if you're looking for a trendy new venue in Hurghada, a clean and friendly beach environment all within an affordable price, check out South Beach. Entrance during the day is just 45 LE, making it very affordable too!<br />
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One of the advantages of South Beach is their acknowledgement of an issue that many people face in Egypt - dirty water<span style="font-family: inherit;">! "<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Pure water is essential to us; therefore we have invested in our own commercial water purification system. This will ensure that all food preparation areas, bar service, ice makers, coffee machines and even the dish washers are supplied with 100% pure drinking water." It doesn't get much better than that :) </span></span><br />
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For more information check out their facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/southbeachhurghada/info" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-44379970697411186342013-08-04T14:48:00.000+02:002013-08-04T14:48:33.598+02:00A Taste of Egypt: Roasted Red Pepper and Garlic Hummus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I'm slightly obsessed with Hummus, and have on occasion gone to the supermarket here with the sole intention of buying multiple tubs of it. So you can imagine my delight when I finally decided to purchase a blender here and embark on the process of making my own hummus. It was enormously successful, absolutely delicious, and a recipe that I will certainly be turning to again in the future. Roasted Red Pepper Hummus, quick and easy, and beautiful on sandwiches with some tomatoes, or as a side dish for any meal.<br />
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2 cups dry chick peas</div>
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2 roasted red bell peppers</div>
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2 tsp salt</div>
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1 tsp baking soda</div>
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juice of half of a lemon</div>
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3 tbsp tahina</div>
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2-3 garlic cloves (or garlic flakes)</div>
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½ cup water (more if necessary)</div>
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⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil</div>
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4 tsps extra virgin olive oil for bell peppers</div>
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1 tbsp ground cumin</div>
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Note: You can use canned chickpeas and if you're short on time this is the ideal alternative. However I would really recommend for superior taste and quality hummus to use fresh chickpeas. </div>
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2. The next morning, drain your chickpeas and place into a large pot. Cover with water, add the salt and baking soda. Bring to a boil. </div>
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3. Once boiling, reduce heat to a rolling boil. Cook chickpeas for approximately an hour. </div>
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4. In the meantime, slice your red bell peppers. Stick on a roasting pan lined with aluminium foil. Drizzle with olive oil and roast in your oven using the broiler setting for approximately 30-40 minutes. Turn about half way through to ensure an even roasting. </div>
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5. When your peppers and chickpeas are cooked, let both cool to room temperature. </div>
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6. Combine your chickpeas, peppers, olive oil, lemon, garlic, cumin and tahina into a blender. On a slow speed allow to blend together. Slowly add water to bring your hummus to your desired consistency, personally I like mine almost the consistency of porridge. ;) </div>
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7. You can sprinkle a little bit of extra cumin / black pepper on the top to garnish when serving. </div>
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Bil Hana Wa Shiva!</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-20954094220683388942013-07-17T20:03:00.003+02:002013-07-17T20:03:48.043+02:00An Expats Guide to Ramadan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Although this is an older post, it's relevance doesn't fade, and I've had quite a few emails about this. So here you go.<br />
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It's that time of year again, when Egypt and the rest of the Muslim world come to a virtual standstill for the holy month of Ramadan. The majority of Egypt will be fasting, and this blog aims to provide expats and visitors with some quick and easy tips to help you understand the significance of this period.<br />
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For a brief history of Ramadan, check out my previous blog <a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.com/2009/08/ramadan-kareem.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">A traditional Fanous Lantern</td></tr>
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If you're new in Egypt, Ramadan can feel a bit hectic. To begin with, the first few days are met with jubilation and celebrations throughout the country. In this time you can expect a lot of post-sunset firecrackers, loud music, traffic on the streets, and if you're in Hurghada hours of power outages (hehe).<br />
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With the temperatures this year soaring to 41 degrees in the shade fasting becomes more difficult for many people. Most Muslims admit that not eating during the day is not the problem, it's not being able to drink (or for some - to smoke a cigarette). Accordingly, the hour before the adhan (prayer-call) announces the end to the fasting day, you can expect heavy traffic on the streets and extremely irate drivers. One thing that always struck me during Ramadan were the people that would stand in the heavy traffic and hand out dates, bottles of water and boxes of juice to the drivers passing by. An important aspect for fasting Muslims is that they must break the fast the moment the adhan announces it, so for drivers that got caught in traffic this is a God-send.<br />
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Of course the advantage here for expats is the hour of sunset and just after, the streets throughout Egypt are virtually empty. Everyone is inside having their iftar (breakfast), praying, and spending some time relaxing before the night's festivities begin. Essentially, once they have filled their bellies most Egyptians will spend the rest of the night until 3 AM eating, drinking, and socializing with their friends at cafes.<br />
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One of the big disadvantages that many find during Ramadan in Cairo (as here in Hurghada we do not have this problem) is that the night clubs and bars / locations that serve alcohol will close. If you manage to find a few places that are still serving alcohol and you have an Egyptian with you in the group, you will face the very awkward conversation with managerial staff refusing to allow your Egyptian friend to enter - regardless of whether or not they are fasting.<br />
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Another disadvantage is the level of productivity dwindles to virtually zero during Ramadan. For those that actually go to work fasting, their work-level is no where near what it usually is. Construction work comes to a virtual halt - even if they are mid-construction (wait what am I talking about, this happens even when it's not Ramadan) and if you have a project that you need completed, expect it to take twice as long.<br />
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It is customary to provide tips during this period; whether you choose to give it in the beginning of the month or at the end just prior to the Eid feast is up to you. Many people opt out of tipping money as there are many other things you can also gift. A Ramadan bag presented to your bowab (doorman) will be graciously accepted. These bags are sold in most supermarkets, or you can make your own and include things like rice, pasta, cooking oil, sugar, spaghetti sauce, lentils, etc. For the end of Ramadan period you can gift clothes (as Muslims will wear new clothes during the Eid) or you can also gift meat for the huge feast that comes in the Eid.<br />
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If you're ever invited over for an iftar dinner (which I highly recommend), go very hungry! Remember people are fasting during the day and will fill themselves come iftar. Often the meal begins with milk and dates to line the stomach, followed by a wide variety of Egyptian dishes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;">The Khan el-Khalili in Cairoduring Ramadan</td></tr>
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For expats in Egypt, Ramadan can provide a fantastic opportunity to really immerse yourself in the Egyptian culture and to soak up the lifestyle here. <a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.com/2009/09/taste-of-egypt.html" target="_blank">I've previously blogged</a> about some of the things you can do around Cairo at this time of year, and similar events are also held throughout Hurghada.<br />
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Finally, find <a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.com/2011/08/tips-for-ramadan-driving.html" target="_blank">here a blog</a> about tips for driving during Ramadan. Stay alert and conscientious on the road and you can avoid accidents, the responsibility lies with you.<br />
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And as they say in Egypt, Ramadan Kareem!</div>
Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-925181506592391502013-07-14T20:49:00.002+02:002013-07-14T20:49:18.807+02:00A Taste of Egypt: Katayef<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ramadan is here, and with it comes copious amounts of food! I've decided against posting any overly political articles for the next month, and instead will focus on the more positive aspects of Egyptian living, particularly the food. Today, I tried my hand at Katayef (a brave decision seeing as how the last time my pancakes were all falling apart once they hit the fryer - fortunately today they were a success!) So here you have a typical Middle Eastern / Egyptian dish for Ramadan, Katayef, in both its sweet and savoury versions. The recipe below is designed to make <b><u>either </u></b>one full batch of sweet, or one full batch of savoury. If you're planning on making both, double up on the pancake ingredients.<br />
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<i>1 cup flour (baking flour works best)</i></div>
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<i>1 tbsp dry yeast</i></div>
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<i>1 tbsp sunflower oil</i></div>
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<i>1/2 tsp baking soda</i></div>
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<i>1/2 tsp lemon juice</i></div>
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<i>A dash of salt</i></div>
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<b><i>For the sweet filling**:</i></b></div>
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<i>1 cup chopped nuts (almonds, unsalted peanuts or walnuts)</i></div>
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<i>1/4 cup caster sugar</i></div>
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<i>1/4 cup chopped coconut</i></div>
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<i>1/4 cup of raisins / sultanas</i></div>
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<i>1/2 tsp of cinnamon</i></div>
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<i>1/3 kg softened white cheese</i></div>
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<i>1/4 kg softened butter</i></div>
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<i>1 part water to 1 part fine sugar (eg. 1/2 cup water + 1/2 cup fine sugar) </i></div>
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<i>1 tsp cinnamon </i></div>
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<i>1/2 tbsp lemon juice</i></div>
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Whether you're making sweet or savoury katayef, the pancakes are all made the same way. For the remainder of the recipe I will refer to the "filling," so simply substitute should you wish to make sweet or savoury. </div>
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<li>Combine your 2 tbsp of luke-warm water and dry yeast in a large bowl. Set aside for 5 minutes, until the yeast has soaked up the moisture. </li>
<li>Once your yeast is ready, add your flour, remaining cup of water and salt. Mix well. Your batter should resemble pancake batter, but just a tad bit bubblier (that's the yeast). </li>
<li>Cover your bowl and let rise for an hour or so, until your batter has doubled in size. </li>
<li>Once ready, add your baking soda and lemon juice to your batter. Mix well. Set aside. </li>
<li>Heat up a non-stick pan, and add your tbsp of sunflower oil. </li>
<li>Gently drop your batter into the heated non-stick pan. You're aiming to make pancakes that are roughly 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter, which equals about 1.5 tablespoons of batter. The easiest way to do this is with a measuring spoon. </li>
<li>Let your batter cook until you see bubbles appear on the top side. DON'T FLIP your pancakes. </li>
<li>Remove your pancake, and set aside -- NOTE: I advise against stacking the pancakes on top of each other as the remaining moisture will cause them to stick. You want them to be sticky, just not to each other! An easy way to avoid this is to place a sheet of wax / baking paper between each stack, or spread them out individually. Don't lay them out on paper towels, as again they will stick to this. </li>
<li>Continue until you have prepared all your pancakes. Let cool and proceed to making the filling.</li>
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<li>In a frying pan / pot, heat up 2/3 cup of cooking oil. (you can throw a little piece of cooked pancake in to tell you when the oil is hot enough - once the pancake has risen and is 'bubbling' at the surface, your oil is warm enough to use.)</li>
<li>While you are waiting for your oil to heat up, fill your katayef. Do this by taking one teaspoon of your respective filling, and placing it in the middle of your pancake. </li>
<li>Gently fold over your pancake, and using your finger tips seal the edges. Your pancakes should arleady be moist enough that you don't need to add anything to ensure they stick. Make sure you've sealed it all the way around, otherwise your filling will spill out upon frying. </li>
<li>Gently place each stuffed Katayef into the hot oil, cooking evenly on both sides (about 1.5 minutes for each side). </li>
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If you've made sweet Katayef, while your completed Katayef are cooling, you can start the syrup - or as they call it in Egypt, the asal (honey). Using a small saucepan, combine the sugar, water, cinnamon and lemon juice. Bring to a gentle rolling boil, and let boil for around a minute. Remove from the eat. For a thicker syrup, add an additional 1/4 cup of sugar. Drizzle over the Katayef. </div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-55569665086645977902013-07-08T13:32:00.003+02:002013-07-08T13:32:52.595+02:00Rumour Mill Abound<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In what appears to have become the norm in any game of politics, not just Egyptian politics (although it is especially prevalent here!), the rumour mill is in full force - again.<br />
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Today, the Muslim Brotherhood have been circulating images of children allegedly shot during protests in Cairo. It's a trap that a lot of people will readily fall into, the belief that if you read it on facebook it must of course be true. The MB propaganda machine is working over-time (don't even get me started on some of the reports that have been trickling through the social media sites). To me as an outsider it appears that the only way they can try to regain their legitimacy (har har) is to remind people how awful and terrible the "rebels" and "army" are, and that they massacre innocent children (interesting however, no comment came from their side on the youth that were pushing teenagers off of roofs).<br />
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I won't post the pictures here, as quite frankly nobody needs to see such graphic images, but I will say that the photos posted today are in fact of children that were killed in Syria. So before you read anything and jump to conclusions, please remember the rumour mill and do your own research first. Spreading hate and propaganda will only aid the dis-information cause, and that won't help anyone. </div>
Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-56525054948883951132013-07-02T21:16:00.002+02:002013-07-02T21:16:26.220+02:00Repost: General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi: top brass ready to defend the people<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/02/general-abdel-fattah-sisi-profile?CMP=twt_fd" target="_blank">Guardian</a>, Ian Black provides a little insight into the man leading the "military coup" in Egypt, Abdel el-Sisi.<br />
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General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, architect of the military intervention in<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/egypt" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Egypt">Egypt</a>'s worsening political crisis, was little known outside the army when he was appointed <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mohamed-morsi" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Mohamed Morsi">Mohamed Morsi</a>'s defence minister last August — part of the Islamist leader's deft consolidation of power.</div>
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Sisi, a career soldier, was head of military intelligence and the youngest member of the 19-strong Supreme Council of the Armed Forces. But despite coming from the heart of the security establishment he had a reputation for being sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood — the reason, many Egyptians assumed, Morsi chose him for the job. Sisi is said to be a religious man, and his wife, unusually, wears the full niqab (face veil.)</div>
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Mohamed Beltagy, a senior Brotherhood figure, has described receiving a "brotherly" warning from the intelligence chief about an impending attack by regime thugs on demonstrators in Tahrir Square in what became known as the "battle of the camel" — one of the brutally defining moments of the revolution that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, in February 2011.</div>
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But Sisi also attracted criticism for appearing to defend the behaviour of the armed forces in detaining and beating women protestors who were subjected to strip searches and "virginity tests" and threatened with prostitution charges.</div>
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Sisi, born in 1954, was a relative youngster in a military dominated by elderly officers with extensive privileges and a traditional view of their place in Egyptian political life. Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who he replaced, was in his late 70s. Sisi, promoted two ranks, reportedly shook like a leaf when Morsi told him to "behave like a man" and take the job, while Tantawi waited in the next room.</div>
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Eyebrows were raised when Sisi decided to allow Islamists to enter the Egyptian military's officer training academy — when it had always insisted before that cadets were unimpeachably apolitical. Opposition suppprters point out that as army intelligence chief, Sisi was privy to classified information about the Muslim Brotherhood and more radical Islamist groups, as well as links with Hamas.</div>
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Just days before Sisi was appointed, jihadis in Sinai attacked Egyptian border guards, killing 16 and humiliating the armed forces — underlining the dangerous gaps in security in the messy post-Mubarak transition.</div>
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Sisi, an infantry officer, was trained at the UK Joint Command and Staff College and did a masters degree at the US army's War College in Pennsylvania.</div>
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He is said to have "experienced firsthand the aggravation of officers who watched huge amounts of money squandered on projects that lined the pockets of the high command but left the soldiers unable to fight effectively."</div>
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He is also described as enjoying close relations with the US military as well as Saudi Arabia, where he served as a military attache. Inside the army, some critics reportedly believe he has been too soft on the Brotherhood.</div>
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Last December, the new Egyptian consititution [sic] gave the military greater autonomy than it had ever enjoyed before but relations with the Brotherhood worsened as public disenchantment with Morsi grew and the army polished its own PR. Sisi warned of intervention a week before the 30 Juneprotests. Now he is at the centre of a high stakes struggle for the future of Egypt.</div>
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A brilliantly insightful post from <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/pomegranate/2013/07/egypt" target="_blank">The Economist</a> as everyone is waiting with bated breath to see whether Mr Morsi will respond to the Egyptian Army's 48 hour deadline.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">WHAT would you do if millions of citizens poured into streets demanding that you go? On television during his election campaign last year, Muhammad Morsi answered without hesitation. First, he said, people would not demonstrate against him because as president he would faithfully represent their will. “But if they do,” he added firmly, “I would be the first to resign.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But Egypt’s first freely-elected president has not resigned, yet, despite nationwide protests on June 30th that were far bigger than those that brought down his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, two and a half years ago. Not only did the vast crowds bring every major city in Egypt to a standstill, amid an impromptu general strike. In scores of villages and provincial towns, protesters invaded government offices and shut them down by force, as police looked on approvingly. They also invaded, torched and looted the Cairo headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive fraternity that nurtured Mr Morsi and carried him to power. Five of his own ministers resigned, too, the latest in a long string of defections in the 12 months since Mr Morsi took office. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As if still more prompting were needed, on July 1st, Egypt’s army issued an ultimatum. If the country’s bickering civilian politicians do not find ways to meet people’s demands within 48 hours, it said, the army will issue its own political road map for them to follow. Given the extreme polarisation of Egypt’s politics, and the accelerating evaporation of the Brotherhood’s constituency, there does not seem to be much incentive for Mr Morsi’s opponents to compromise.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For hundreds of thousands of Egyptians who came out for a second day of cheerful protests, there was no doubt what the army’s diktat meant: Mr Morsi is finished. Lending further credence to this supposition, a squadron of army helicopters, each trailing a giant Egyptian flag, circled Cairo’s Tahrir Square in a triumphant show of force that was met with roars of approval. The military also paid an unannounced visit to the Nile-side headquarters of Egypt’s state broadcasting system. The officials Mr Morsi had appointed to run Egyptian TV and radio quietly exited. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite the army's insistence that its ultimatum does not amount to a coup, </span>some have already declared its intervention a “soft coup”, not unlike its move, in 2011, to usher Mr Mubarak out of power. The military lingered too long then, during the tumultuous transition before Mr Morsi’s term, earning opprobrium for human rights abuses and general ham-fistedness. But a precipitous slide in Egypt’s economy under civilian rule, accompanied by lawlessness and corruption, has aided in shortening memories. With Mr Morsi’s administration having signally failed to tackle the country’s myriad and deep problems, opposition to it has snowballed over recent weeks into an avalanche.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Opinion polls from before the recent protests gave Mr Morsi an approval rating of around 30%. This has certainly now shrivelled as even fellow Islamists have abandoned a clearly sinking ship. Still, the Muslim Brotherhood has hundreds of thousands of active members, and millions of sympathisers. Containing their unhappiness will be a pressing challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Egypt’s military has not revealed what its “road map” might look like. Most analysts expect that, having absorbed lessons from its last intervention, the army may this time both act more forcefully and set a quicker pace. The expectation is that its goal will be a return to civilian rule, under a revised and more inclusive constitution than the one that Mr Morsi hastily forced through last year. But despite the sudden eruption of public enthusiasm for the army, worries do linger. Could it be that now, armed with massive public backing and having dispensed with the Brotherhood, the only civilian party strong enough to challenge them, Egypt’s soldiers may be tempted to stay in power?</span></div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-34104141367356970472013-07-01T18:01:00.000+02:002013-07-01T18:01:11.624+02:00Hurghada Protests 30th June<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To follow up on yesterday's photos, find below some videos from the protests in Hurghada.<br />
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-26672404320824541272013-06-30T20:46:00.002+02:002013-06-30T20:46:27.433+02:00Protests in Egypt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just a few snapshots from the protests today, in Cairo and in Hurghada.<br />
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-20055235075874452822013-06-30T15:51:00.000+02:002013-06-30T15:51:35.308+02:00Pressure on Independent Media Outlets Mount<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Unfortunately there have been more than a few reports circulating in the past few days of attempts to shut down a media outlets in Egypt, most prominently being OnTV which is notorious for providing live updates on protests around the country. One such media outlet that has fallen victim to the increased pressure is the <a href="http://www.arabwestreport.info/" target="_blank">Arab West Report</a>, my former employer, whose website was hacked last week leaving their website inaccessible. To this day, an error message pops up when trying to access the site.<br />
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This is a great shame as AWR always tried their hardest to provide unbiased news reporting, and would often post investigative reports detailing the "hidden" side of stories related to Muslim-Christian sectarian tensions. The hacking of AWR's website is just one further indication of the worrying stifling of independent reporting in Egypt.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-size: 9px;">Protesters at Tahrir Square chanting anti-President Mohamed Mursi slogans, June 28, 2013.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 9px;">(Photo by Asmaa Waguih/REUTERS, trough <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=4874537&msgid=524963&act=5JII&c=196810&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nydailynews.com%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famerican-killed-egypt-furor-president-mohammed-morsi-article-1.1385769" style="color: rgb(85, 170, 221) !important;" target="_blank">nydailynews.com</a>) </span></strong></div>
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On Thursday, June 27, our websites were hacked and can no longer be accessed by our IT staff. It seems like our dedicated server in Roubaix/France was hacked completely and the system and the data can no longer be accessed.</div>
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This also applies to our other websites <a href="http://cawu.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">cawu.org</a> (<a href="http://cawu.org/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://cawu.org/</a>), <a href="http://cidtegypt.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">cidtegypt.com</a>(<a href="http://cidtegypt.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://cidtegypt.com/</a>) and others, as they are running on the same system.</div>
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Suzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06515094894658268151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4786946063422480878.post-23177224349881177012013-06-30T15:42:00.000+02:002013-06-30T15:43:49.988+02:00Tips For Finding Pet-Friendly Accommodation in Egypt <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On a lighter note for those in Egypt looking to find accomm<span style="background-color: transparent;">odation with pets, it can be an exceptionally difficult situation. The article below, submitted by Jenny Hart, provides a little insight for those of us in Egypt seeking pet-friendly accommodation. </span></span></div>
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In Egypt we own around 178,000 pets, but perhaps one of the reasons why we don’t keep more cats and dogs is the difficulties faced by tenants in search of rental accommodation that welcomes animals. While it’s possible to see the situation from a landlord’s point of view, as potentially an untrained dog or cat could be destructive when in their property, it is <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/irresponsible-pet-ownership-101.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">frustrating for those of us who are responsible owners.</a></u></span> Our pet would be unlikely to cause any more damage than a child might and rarely do landlords turn families away who have young children. So what are pet owners meant to do who are in the position that they need to rent their home?</div>
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<b>Options for pet owners</b></div>
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While some renting property try to conceal their cats, dogs or other small animals, this is a risky step to take, as if found to be in breach of your contract the landlord is within their right to ask you to leave their property and with a bad reference the task of finding new accommodation becomes harder still. If it looks like you are going to struggle to find a landlord to take on both you and your pet, you may need to consider whether you could ask a willing member of family or a friend who owns their own home to keep them until you can find a more animal friendly rental. However, this option or the alternative of finding yourself <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.co.uk/2011/02/unrest-in-egypt-leaves-many-dogs-and.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">without any accommodation</a></u></span> is not appealing. Perhaps the key to securing a rental where you can openly keep your pet is to demonstrate to your landlord that your pet will be no trouble.</div>
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<b>Demonstrating responsibility</b></div>
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While a landlord may have questions of their own they wish to ask to determine whether you and your cat or dog will be suitable tenants, in other cases you can cover the areas that will put their mind at ease. Highlighting that your pet is house trained, receives daily exercise, is not left for extended periods home alone and that you have taken all the steps to keep your companion in good health demonstrates your pet is less likely to be a risk to their property. Offering for your prospective landlord to meet your dog or cat is another good way to influence their decision in your favour, as seeing that your animal is indeed well behaved should help to convince them of your suitability.</div>
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<b>Charges and expectations</b></div>
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When you <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://probuytolet.com/ensuring-the-success-of-pet-friendly-rentals-advice-for-landlords-and-tenants/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">find a landlord willing to accept you as a tenant with pets</a></u></span>, it’s almost inevitable that you will pay more than if you were not renting with a dog or cat. This may mean that your refundable deposit is greater to cover potential repairs that may be needed or that you are required to pay a charge to offset professional cleaning costs when you vacate the property. In other instances, each month your rental payment could be higher, though some pet owners feel that this additional cost is worth it if they have <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/27/pet-owners-rented-accommodation" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">found a pet friendly landlord</a></u></span>. Especially if you are paying a premium for your accommodation, don’t be afraid to ask your landlord about reasonable issues that they should be prepared to deal with when renting to pet owners. For example, if the property has outside space with a fence that is in disrepair, they should be willing to fix this to prevent the escape of your dog. Equally, inside the property if they haven’t provided chair covers or a vacuum capable of dealing with pet hair, they should address this too to allow you to <span style="color: blue;"><u><a href="http://egyptunbound.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/talk-about-dirt.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">keep the property clean</a></u></span>.</div>
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<b>Benefits to landlords</b></div>
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Landlords would be wise to remember that by excluding pet owners they are missing out on the opportunity to rent to a greater audience, so they possibly may have periods where their property stands empty if they don’t cast their net wide enough for prospective tenants. Not only this, but landlords forget that when people find accommodation that welcomes their pets they will tend to stay for a longer period of time, so the cost and trouble of finding new tenants is reduced. Therefore it is not just tenants set to gain from the wider availability of pet friendly rentals, landlords are also in a better position, which may sway more of them to consider accepting pet owners.</div>
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For anyone wanting to keep a close eye on things as they unfold in Egypt today (and likely over the next few days) Cairoscene is providing live updates to keep an eye on the demonstrations around the country. From what I've been told, things in Hurghada are still quiet, but there are protests planned to start there around 5 pm. Will keep this updated, but in the meantime please check out Cairoscene's live updates <a href="http://cairoscene.com/ViewArticle.aspx?AId=1226" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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