Ras Mohammed – راس محمد

Am going to Ras Mohammed protectorate today i’ll be camping there for 2 days.
 

With nothing but 3 of my friends, sleeping bags and canned food….we’ll see if we’ll survive

Pictures by Anel Van Veelen
Expect new stories to tell when am back

Mubarak

Is it just me, or did someone else notice this?
i’ve been following Al Ahram for the past 3 days, and everyday the main title has to start with “Mubarak – مبارك” and there is a smaller article on the main page beneath it titled “Gamal Mubarak – جمال مبارك“

Is that a coincidence?or that’s some kind [...]

The Countryside – الفلاحين

My mom had to visit some relatives who lives in the countryside last week, guess who had to drive her there? yep, thats me.
Let me tell you something, driving in Cairo, is like heaven comparing to driving there. first of all, there is no such thing as a “Street” it’s like a myth there… all [...]

Tourist in Egypt – خمسة سياحة

I had some friends coming from the US and they wanted to visit some touristic places in Egypt et all.
So i decided to take them to a couple of places trying to *impress* them with the Egyptian *civilization*, anyway, since my last year experience with foreigners at the pyramids REALLY sucked, and was very embarrassing, [...]

Am back – و رجعت من السفر

So! am finally back from hibernation
It’s been a long time since my last post, there are A LOT of things that happened here is a brief of what has been going on lately:

I came back from Saudi Arabia, in one piece, no more problems.
I took a week off of work
I went to visit [...]

El Sefara fel 3omara – السفارة فى العمارة

الواحد و هو فى الغربة…..مفيش غير أهل بلده إللى ممكن يكسروا مرارة الغربة
So here’s my stories with the several encounters with Egyptians in Riyadh:
The Egyptian embassy in Riyadh:

We all went today to the embassy to report our stolen passports and find out how we will be back to Egypt, we already knew about a few [...]

Sports report – التقرير الرياضى

The African Cup championship has started this week in Ghana.
It’s a great chance for all the soccer hooligans and the football maniacs to express themselves.

I am not a big fan of football and I rarely watch any matches, so i found out yesterday that there is a match between Egypt and Cameroon at 7:00pm i [...]

Hallelujah!

Just 2 days after i wrote my post about the good sunny and warm weather in Cairo and how i liked it, and despite all the weather reports saying it will be cold, it still was warm and sunny….look what’s happening now

How didn’t i expect that? Specially being an expert with the Murphey’s [...]

Global Warming? – فين عم خليل؟

الدنيا برد, الدنيا برد و عم خليل بيسقى الورد…..
الظاهر كدة با جدعان, عم خليل أدانا بمبة السنة دى

Do you have ANY idea why would the weather in mid Jan, be that hot???
I read on several websites that the weather will be so cold and that temperature might reach Zero in some times of [...]

Mubarak The Superstar – مبارك يا نجم

A friend of mine, sent me a clip taken from an old movie of Kamal El Shinnawy & Shadia, we have all probably seen this movie, i just don’t happen to remember the name.
Kamal El Shinnawy is a pilot and he’s going to war, guess who was silent actor (كومبارس) in the role of the [...]