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Articles of the author Amr El Beleidy
Eid destinations: One-day getaway to the valleys of Fayoum
Close enough for a day trip and boasting beautiful natural scenery, Fayoum's Wadi al-Rayan natural protectorate is an increasingly popular getaway for Cairo's residents. As you drive into the protectorate, a natural depression lying 43 meters below (...)

07 - 09 - 2010
Why do we travel? To discover what we cannot leave
Strolling through a London park, a casual conversation with a friend became the catalyst for a longstanding search for the answer to the question: why are people are driven to travel? I asked my friend about his plans for his upcoming vacation. “Are (...)

31 - 08 - 2010
Halayeb remains source of dispute btwn Cairo, Khartoum
Shalateen, Southern Egypt--The dispute between Egypt and Sudan over the Halayeb Triangle, which straddles the border between the two countries, has flared up again following recent Sudanese claims on the area. On 30 June, Sudanese President Omar (...)

21 - 07 - 2010
Saying farewell to the south
We did not want to wake up that morning. We knew it was our last in Shalateen, and we would soon be leaving. Our motivation to prepare our belongings faded and the will to get going disappeared. We dragged our bags to the car and spent more time (...)

19 - 05 - 2010
Jabana: Patience in a cup of coffee
As far as they can remember, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers have been drinking jabana, a type of coffee that evolved from a drink into a tradition, its thorough preparation being more an art than science. One cup is poured after another (...)

19 - 05 - 2010
Swords, shields and a whip: A Beja wedding night
We stood under the harsh sun waiting for our turn at the workshop. One of our tires was flat. We had been kindly alerted to the fact by a truck driver and we needed to fix the tire before we could go anywhere. The workshop was small. A car radio (...)

12 - 05 - 2010
Difficult, Difficult, Lemon Difficult
It's difficult, difficult, lemon difficult. Relationships that is. That was our conclusion following an inspirational trip into the far south of Egypt, at one of the lowest points west of the Red Sea and near Halayeb Triangle, a disputed border area (...)

12 - 05 - 2010
Shalateen: The hunt for truths in a far-off town
The air was thick inside the small apartment as a rusty ceiling fan revolved sluggishly. We were at our hosts' residence. They were three men in their 30s who moved to Shalateen for work several years ago. At first it seemed that they were reluctant (...)

05 - 05 - 2010
Shalateen: The long drive down
Getting ready for the 12-hour drive from Cairo to the Halayeb triangle is not an easy task, namely because it is a sensitive area, about which there is little public information. We were not able to find simple things like weather forecasts, (...)

28 - 04 - 2010
Shalateen: Growing up between a rock and a hard place
Every town has its story. Shalateen's is on the precipice of a turning point. Like each of us, towns are born and eventually die. Their life stories mimic those of people, except they exist over a longer time period. They have ups and downs, and (...)

21 - 04 - 2010
Married to tradition in Shalateen
The public beach in Shalateen was largely deserted, except for a few local Bedouin men, women and children lying on the sand, lazily strolling in the ankle-deep waters of the low tide, or listening to Gulfi music while preparing Bedouin-style (...)

14 - 04 - 2010
A hunt for adventure, fun and facts in the southern mountains
When we looked at a map of Egypt, the town of Shalateen and the Halayeb triangle by the Red Sea along the border with Sudan stood out as the most remote spots in Egypt. Knowing nothing about them nor anyone who has been there, we decided that was (...)

13 - 04 - 2010
Mexico City: Death, rape and flowers
The most striking aspect about the Mexicans is their identity--or to be more precise, their identity crisis, born out of the union of Spanish colonizer Hernan Cortes and the native La Malinche, considered as both the symbolic mother of all Mexicans (...)

01 - 02 - 2010
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