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by Penny Ashley Back again! Doesn’t time fly when you’re having a good time? Mind you, out here Time is a funny thing. Several times I’ve been told about weeklies that come out fortnightly and monthlies that come out quarterly and some things that never come out at all. And it never fails to make me smile when I go in to pick up the TV listings magazines and find they won’t be available till around the middle of the month. I can hardly contain my excitement at all the good films I’ve missed! And how many times do we [...]

by Pia Kurro Trying to find way to somehow systematize my first impressions of the life in El Menoufiya, there are so many, what about by factor of importance or how much one or the other influences our everyday life here, disturbing it or, perhaps also, enriching it? In that case the first on the list is undoubtedly: NOISES That life in Egypt is somehow noisier than it is up in the northern countries, that people here like their TVs and music louder, and really work their car horns – is not a surprise, but it is still a surprise [...]

by Penny Ashley Hope this finds you all well. Collo tamam. I am trying to learn Arabic but it’s not easy is it? I don’t really want to get bogged down with anything remotely grammatical (I’m still struggling with apostrophes so don’t even mention glottal stops) but I just want to make myself understood when I’m out and about. I was in Metro one day (aren’t we all at some time or another) and was searching for some Flora margarine, as you do. I looked on the shelf where I normally found it but it wasn’t there. I wandered up [...]

by Penny Ashley Welcome to the inane ramblings of a post-menopausal ex pat. Well it’s good to get off on the right foot I always think. A word of warning though. You’ll need a British sense of humour or at least an appreciation of it and a finely-tuned sense of the ridiculous. Hope you like the pic, I had it taken specially because I always think it’s nice to be able to put a face to a name and we always like to be recognised in public. Mind you I hadn’t realised that the nasal hairs had grown so long [...]

by Rasha Hassan No one is the same 100% through his entire life. Events change us,and the flexibility to change is an art we have to learn because being stiff and Rigid against the world rules would break you and make u isolated and different. That doesn't mean you change your principles, you only apply them differently. You could always be honest and sincere but in the same time polite and sweet.People sometimes refuse the reality but if sweetly informed they will accept it. Destiny could never be changed, it is our attitude that makes it different. Life is a [...]

Editor: Maike Munck Translators: Doro Reinecke, Dr. Adel Taher Day 1. Bahariyya We left Cairo at 8 am, to the oasis Bahariyya, 420 km southwest of Cairo, the outset for our safari in the magnificent western desert of Egypt. After we left the Cairo suburbs behind, the surroundings became dull and monotonous. Only close to Bahariyya the ground opened all of the sudden: an enormous valley with a complete different landscape appeared, with mounts and strangely formed mountains. We drove down and followed the road to one more checkpoint, Bahariyya was in sight – finally! We had enough time to [...]

by Rasha Hassan It is hard to advice others on love because this issue is different from one person to another, only love as a topic is the same. Amazingly, that despite the extra technology era we are living , we are still extremely attracted to all what relates us to feelings and emotions. Unfortunately, it is very common now to hear from anyone that love has vanished from earth and all of us complain from the same signs and indications of such an idea. Well, first we have to contemplate ourselves a little because after all ,we are the [...]

Making a Proper Decision!! (1) by Dr. Ibrahim Yehia Introduction Relationships between foreign females and Egyptian males entail a wide range of aspects to discuss and evaluate. Despite the existing successful relations, many other similar relationships fail as well. In the later group, not only we can find that one partner is a victim of the other partner’s attitude, behavior and understanding, but also, in many cases, both of them could be victims of such relation!!! Why? Because both of them could not understand and respect each other’s mentality, culture and needs. Liberating Truth Some people believe that there is [...]

by Doro Reinecke (orig. published in Mix Magazine Jan. 2006) Naama Bay, 1975 Herbert & Edith Reinecke and friend It is the year 2006 and you are sitting at the hotel bar looking forward to a dinner in a fine Restaurant, followed by a night in the Pacha Disco or another hot address in Sharm. That could be the evening of any modern tourist in Sharm, but 35 years ago that was a complete different story: The Israelis were occupying the Sinai, and had built some houses in the city they called Ofira at the Sharm El Sheikh (sharm being [...]