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hi, I'm a 13 year old girl and I live in canada. I'm in grade 8, for a school project i have to make an eygpt newspaper. I need to find out the format of how newspapers looked so that I can make on that looks like it. Can sombody from egypt e-mail me and tell or show what a cover of a eygpt newspapers looks like, and there size,what news do they print, ECT. PLEASE sombody help, or if you just wanna chat with a teenage from can. e-mail me aat freckles.12@gurlmail.com thank you
Sarah freckles
saskatoon, CANADA!! - Added on 12/22/00 at 22:10:53I visited Egypt first in 1997.In November 2000 I was in Egypt for the second time, and I intend to come again. First, I was in Luxor for a vacation, then in Cairo on business. The hospitality of the Egyptians is heartwarming. I have many friends there now.
Ingeborg Hildegard Solbrig hildegard
Iowa City, IA 52240, USA - Added on 12/21/00 at 06:53:16I fully enjoy your site. Continue to make us enjoy it. I went to CAC School at Maadi. Sorry to see my school falling in ruins. Keep up the good work and I seize this season to wish all the best for 2001. May you have the time the health, the money to keep us informed. Thank you and All the best for the New Year. Maria
Maria Kheir"
Geneva, Switzerland - Added on 12/21/00 at 02:47:18Samir, I love reading your site and learning about Egypt's 'belle epoque'. It would have been a lovely time to live.
Halla El-Sokkari
Cairo, Egypt - Added on 12/15/00 at 12:17:09Dear Mr, Rafaat, I think you are, accumilativly, creating, an encyclopedia for the history of Egypt during the last 150 years. What I really appreciate is that you could be considered as an honest source of information not affected by political or any external forces which usually ends up with distorted and false information, as we are used to experience in the middle east. Your pages are rich with very interesting data and cover-obscured subjects. I really appreciate your work. Thank you for every thing. If you are interested in Egyptian hand-made rugs, you can visit: www.haddad-carpets.com
Mohib George Haddad
Alexandria, Egypt - Added on 12/10/00 at 01:50:15Hi, everybody!Hi to all egyptian friends.I really liked your side very much.But I need some help.Because I want to find the names,adresse,telephone,facsimile numbers and e-mail adresses of Egyptian Textile Companies,Egyptian Printing Companies, Egyptian Chemical Importers so that I can be able to send messages to them and have a business relationship.Please anyone of you give me websites or if possible e-mail adresses and names of such Egyptian Companies.Thank you all my Egyptian Friends!Best Regards.
cetintas
Istanbul, Turkey - Added on 12/07/00 at 07:36:41Your site is superb, replete with things of interest. In fact it is one of the best sites where i love to linger.I am a freelance travel writer / photographer based in Delhi and i would love to have friends from Egypt sharing interest in hisstory, monuments, arts, culture. I even plan to create an encyclopaedic web site on Islamic monuments around the world. shahid1@vsnl.com
Shahid Akhter
new delhi, india - Added on 12/05/00 at 17:21:26I want to thank to be able to write in this grandiose place. From the island of Great Canaria, I invite them to that visit us in their vacations, inform you on our offers of lodgings greetings
Maisy
las palmas de gran canaria, spain - Added on 12/03/00 at 16:28:26I find the articles to be helpful and very informational for a student that is interested in doing a oral presentation or a report.
Lynn
North America- Michigan - Added on 12/01/00 at 16:51:32I will be moving to Egypt on Feb. 2, 200l to live there with my Egyptian husband. We will be living in Hurghada - Red Sea where we have a hotel. We also have a hotel on the West Bank of Luxor which we want to sell. If anyone reading this is interested, please E-mail me. I want to know if the Gazette is still being published and how I can subscribe to it. Or, is it only available online?
Arlene
Las Cruces, USA - Added on 11/30/00 at 10:39:47Samir ya Raafat, aka Shnuffles Where you lead we follow ! Keep up the great work, this is a truly great site.
Tarek
London, UK - Added on 11/25/00 at 05:12:24Hey!! I love your website! I'm Egyptian, and I'm from Cairo. Coming here made me wish I was in Egypt again! The culture overall is simply beautiful, the Middle Eastern food is so amazing, and the people are SO incredibly nice. Anyone who hasn't been to Egypt should consider going there!
Shema Rosy494@cs.com
New York, U.S.A. - Added on 11/18/00 at 08:34:00Having lived in Egypt for 13 years it is absolutely marvelous to "click in" to your site. Congratulations ! I lived in Maadi and Mohandessine and worked as Executive Secretary at Holiday Inn Sphinx and as an English tutor. Hello to all the wonderful people in Egypt.
Tanya Wescombe arovana@bigpond.com
Canberra, Australia - Added on 11/13/00 at 21:12:14As a man with a long time love affair with Egypt, I constantly marvel at the excellence of your site. The article concerning Purdy Pasha was most excellent, as are all your articles. Hurrah for Egypt, Mother of the World! Hurrah for Sa
Allen
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. - Added on 11/12/00 at 19:57:15This site is but a reflection on the true character of Samir Raafat. The humor, intellect, and savvy content are but a few characteristics of this entrepreneurial Egyptian. This site, like good wine, can only get better with time. Keep up the good work!
Seif Fahmy Seif
Cairo, Egypt - Added on 11/04/00 at 23:56:08This is my first time visiting your site. I find it very interesting; and I plan to return soon.
Azi Aziz
Virginia, USA - Added on 11/04/00 at 17:13:28Searching for "Cotton Exchange" I found your article about the Alexandria Cotton Ex. and ventured on to discover some of the other historical information you are showing on your great site. Regards ewald
ewald mertins Ewald
Dockweiler, Gewrmany - Added on 11/03/00 at 11:18:30Every time i look at your website you make it so interesting, it makes me home sick especially when I look at the culture events of Janet and Nagui party most of the people I know all very well which I haven't seen for years to see them again and how they've changed its fantastic. Keep it up ya Samir you are doing a great job.
Fouad William Shunbo
Fouad
Montreal, Canada - Added on 11/03/00 at 05:17:56I am a student and i really liked your site. I was just browsing trying to find some info on Egypt because that is the country i picked for my History class. well keep up the good work!
Deidra Blankartz Deidra
Mobridge, US - Added on 10/19/00 at 09:15:47I was thrilled to find this site. I lived in Maadi and Mohandessin for five years. My love for Egypt and the life long friends made there are very close to my heart. Thank you for the current history and happenings of my favorite place on earth.
Alice Sieber Corley Alice
Marshall, USA - Added on 10/15/00 at 14:44:48I hope to some day visit your beautiful land.
gk Ong onggk@yahoo.com
Malaysia - Added on 10/07/00 at 20:29:20What a brilliant web site. I am so pleased there's one on the net. I've been to Egypt 5 times back in 1989 to 1991, a long time since, I know. Each time I visited I had a brilliant time, which was either alone or with my dad. He's going to be really pleased about this web page as well, when I tell him. Egypt is such a beautiful place to visit and there's so much to see and do. I wish I was out there now just like my dad (Bill) does also. He's hoping to visit again in Nov 2001 for a few months break. My last visit was back in 1991 because I met my wife and we started a family, (now with three kids) so we'll have to wait another 10yrs before I can take her there. Such is life 'a'! Well once again, what an excellent web site and many thanks to all the Egyptians who made my time out there so happy and memorable. Regards Kevin.
Kevin Maddison kevin
SWINDON, ENGLAND, UK - Added on 10/07/00 at 00:20:35I really enjoy your website. I lived in Zamalek for a while in the mid-90s when I was at AUC, and your articles remind me of many of the wonderful things that I experienced during my initial stay and subsequent trips to Egypt. With any luck, I'll be back next spring to consume vast quantities of Stella and Gin and Tonics by the Nile! Gil
Gil Hegwood Gil
Washington, DC, USA - Added on 10/04/00 at 09:50:14i was really surprised when i found your site because you never advertised about it, but the main point is that the site is a way behind fashion. right guys??
chica Chicas
Cairo, Egypt - Added on 10/04/00 at 05:16:11I was really amazed by the depth and bredth of the information presented in the various sections of your site. Quite impressive.
Ralph E Vaughan Ralph
USA - Added on 10/02/00 at 16:33:01How do I get in touch with Samir Raafat re his inquiry last month (by email) about my book PORT SAID REVISITED? I did not receive the message until a few days ago, being temporarily cut off from the net.
Sylvia Modelski
Washington DC, USA - Added on 10/02/00 at 14:23:46Dear Samir, I often visit your website and always find myself in awe when I read your articles on landmarks and architecture describing what was once our beautiful cities in Egypt. We will never see this again, nor will our children ever know what Egypt was really like; so I would like to suggest you publish a book of your articles. Yalla, Samir, I'll be your first customer. Best regards to Sherif. Elie Moreno
Moreno
Los Angeles, CA, USA - Added on 10/01/00 at 17:19:43Not a bad effort Samir - remember Kunta Kinte?? Really makes me not want to rediscover my roots. But fame!! "Your site sucks very bad" is instantaneous notoriety. Bad publicity is better than no publicity. This site is building up cult status!!
Mohamed El Guindi Mo
London, UK - Added on 09/27/00 at 11:55:33greetings to all....have been coming to Egypt since 1992..changed my career just to keep me connected with all things Misr...love this site.. It keeps me in touch when i can't be there. September of 2000 will mark my 20th trip to Egypt...yea...! masalaama....sandra
sandra Sandra
hagerstown.md., usa/misr - Added on 09/24/00 at 18:22:55Keep up the good work !! my mum has been pushing me to come to visit her origin mother country now I am more encouraged .. Very nice website
Lina Lina
Added on 09/04/00 at 12:14:35Very interesting
Pen pen
New Zealand - Added on 09/01/00 at 18:04:24Sorry for the long absence Samir. An aging PC and lots of other activities kept me away from your greatly improved and very interesting new site. Please keep up the good work Mike Stamford VCA 1946
Michael Stamford stamford
Grimsby, UK-England - Added on 08/26/00 at 07:36:24I enjoyed your website very much!!!!!!
Darlene Stephens Darlene
Lufkin,Texas, USA - Added on 08/25/00 at 12:24:18It was a delightful surprise to find and read your page.Your articles and pictures got many dear memories back. Groppi is one of them. I think help to restore the Jewish sites in Egypt is a commitment the world community in general and the Jewish community especially should undertake. After all we can't change where Moses was born. Continue your good work. Sincerely. M. Goubran
Michel Goubran michel
USA - Added on 08/24/00 at 03:19:20We are looking forward for more of the Beautiful people of Egypt.
Edwin Cochran Edwin
Lake Worth, Florida, USA - Added on 08/14/00 at 05:52:23I was amazed when I stumbled across your delightful site the other day. My father's family has been established in Egypt for over a century (one cousin still lives in Cairo), and I have always been fascinated by the cosmopolitan world of 19th and 20th century Cairo and Alexandria. I am still in the process of reading through the many interesting articles and will send another message when I have made more progress. Many thanks for a truly wonderful website!
George Vassiadis vassiadis
London, England - Added on 08/11/00 at 09:40:36Dearest Samir, what a lovely website! you have done a magnificent work in presenting Cairo, especially to give a taste of the wonderful parties. reminds me of the first time I ever did the nasty at the Cosmopolitan. nothing like a hungry Egyptian man, i tell you! I must be off dear. keep up the great work. Claudette
Claudette Marcier Claudette
Varanasi, India - Added on 08/09/00 at 00:26:44I truly enjoyed your site. If you don't mind I would like to put a link to it on one of my webpages Thank You LJ
LJ Judy judy
Petoskey,Michigan, USA - Added on 08/07/00 at 15:48:56Dear Samir I don't know what to say. With your site you return us to the wonderful Cairo. Please try to write also about other places in Cairo like Heliopolis. Keep it up and I am waiting for your new.
Ihab Abbas Ihab
Kuwait, Kuwait - Added on 07/18/00 at 05:27:21Salut Samir, et merci! It's Daniella speaking ( lots of friends in common!), I adore your site! If one day you will think to make an "Agami section 1960" or a "Guezira Sporting Club in the sixties" I am in contact with a lot of people, around the world, that would like very much to be part of it! Thanks again, see you in November! A big kiss, Daniella
Daniella Mastalli daniella
Rome, Italy - Added on 07/15/00 at 23:45:56My sincere Congratulations! Yours is a great website. Really! One enjoys every page and everything you write about. The pictures speak for themselves and make a story of their own. History is something very important and nice to know and learn. The social page is also very interesting. One feels he attended the occasions himself. I congratulate you. Keep up the good job, We need such websites. GOOD LUCK DI
Di Di
Cairo, Egypt - Added on 07/05/00 at 07:28:46Mr. Raafat. Thank you for reviving the memories of a beautiful Garden City, where I lived for four years in the early sixties. I went to school at CAC in Maadi, when CAC was at Prince Ibrahims villa. Lovely place, I'm very sorry it has fallen apart. One could not imagine that such beautiful gardens and landmark could be left to die away. I remember two Spanish brother and sister: Emilio and Mercedes. I am Spanish origin married to a Lebanese and I would like so much to know if they are still in Maadi. I have great memories of Egypt as a whole and I have been back on several occasions but I found Cairo changed a lot. I do hope that the preservation team you founded can be helpful. In Switzerland, landmarks over 70 years are protected and restored rather than demolished and the people have a say collecting signatures, presenting these motions to the Government in order to preserve the sites. Of course I would be glad to see a new article every day as I visit EGY.COM often but I realize this is not possible. Nevertheless, as I used to go to Agami and Ismailia on summer holidays I would be grateful if you could place some articles on what happened. Ismailia in the 60s was a lovely little village. We used to attend the sailing Club and it was lovely.
My father worked at the UNEF at Sharia al Nabatat in Cairo and our last address was Maamal al Sukar. I wish you all the best for your site and as I attended the Franciscans - Rue Antikhana, in Cairo where I had many friends. Specially Evely and Mireille Dayan. Does anybody know where they are? Thanks again for all the efforts you do to keep this spirit of people having nostalgia of Egypt, in general. María González de Kheir
Maria KHEIR KHEIR
Geneva, Switzerland - Added on 06/21/00 at 07:22:14I am coming to Egypt at the end of June to work for 3 months. I would be grateful of any information I may need in advance of my trip. Things like what to eat, culture, language etc. I will be taking a laptop so I can keep in touch with my family, advice on free "Egyptian" internet etc would be useful. Regards Phil.
Phil Ashcroft Phil
St.Helens, England - Added on 06/11/00 at 07:49:51It's so fun to read about what's going on in Cairo, city I love and miss, specially its smiling people! Thank you Sambo!
Mariana Recondo recondo
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Added on 06/10/00 at 09:26:36Your site is very very interesting and I would like to know how you get such a good site. I really like the way that you express your most current news. You do it in the best way possible. I would really like to see some more news products on your site. Thanks for a WONDERFUL site!!!!!!!!
cloe
sydney, Australia - Added on 06/05/00 at 17:22:20Your site is very unusal to the Australian Newspaper But very good. I give you 10 out of 10 for weirdest
noyb
sydney, australia - Added on 06/05/00 at 17:20:33Iam one of the grandsons of Gaston Nissim Adès whose villa is featured in your Garden City heading. I think a mistake has been made, because Tony and Gaston are the same person, Tony being Gaston's nickname! Any Egyptian Jew who whishes to e-mail me, please feel free. All mail answered ! (in French or English )
Pierre Danon pierre
Paris, France - Added on 06/03/00 at 07:19:56I have lived in Cairo's Zamalek district from age 1 to 12..Went to the Lycee Francais du Caire and college des Freres at Bab-el-louk...Am 61 now contemplating to visit Cairo and wonder if any of my school buddies have visited this site and contemplated a school reunion?
Jacques TELIO J. Telio
Boca Raton, Florida, USA - Added on 05/30/00 at 23:38:21Lived in Cairo's Zamalek district until 1952. Went to College des Freres Bab-el-louk, before that at the Lycee francais duCaire..I am 61 now and wonder if any of my school buddies have entered this site and contemplated a school reunion?
jacques TELIO Telio
Boca Raton, Florida, USA - Added on 05/30/00 at 23:32:57I really enjoyed your website. I found it a bit ironic, however, that your article denouncing (perhaps rightly) the western media for criticizing Egyptian anti-Semitism contains a link to a virulently anti-Semitic site run by Ahmed Rami: www.abbc.com.
david zinder Zinderd
chicago, usa - Added on 05/30/00 at 16:59:43My last trip to Cairo in late April this year, I had per chance to visit the area behind the Central Bank on Kasr el Nil Street. I was greatly impressed with the very recent renovation of the area. It has brought the area and buildings surrounding the Stock Exchange and Cosmopolitan Hotel to its former 30's/40's glory. One would hope that this effort will be continued in the rest of the surrounding area. Surprisingly few people that I knew either had made the effort or took the time to see it. An article on the history of the area, who took this initiative and future plans for the area would be greatly appreciated. My greatest compliments to whoever took this initiative - it shows that there are still some people who care. On a further note I walked about Abdin, especially the residential area close to the Palace, and found the area, although run-down, still of beauty and fascination. To find art-deco buildings, near late 19th century Greek style buildings and 30's houses, without the modern (ugly) blocks as refreshing. Perhaps some more insights into this quartier would also be appreciated.
A Mallis
London, UK - Added on 05/28/00 at 03:27:13I love what you did to the website...classy, re-vamped and extremely interesting as usual! Best regards from Ottawa.
Magda Sharara Sourour Sharara
Ottawa, Canada - Added on 05/22/00 at 08:00:47Mr. Raafat Ours is a bewildering crisis. By any standard known to man we should’ve been at the forefront of the well-developed world, yet, in reality we still live in the squalor of the under developed phase of modern human history. Have we ever asked ourselves why? We certainly don’t lack the resources required to occupy a prominent position amongst the league of well-developed nations, we have the skill of history and geography, we have the skill of 7000 years of civilization, we have the skill of three divine religions, and finally we have the skill of human fatalism imposed upon us by our annals of cumulative human experience. So what is it that’s keeping us paraplegic in a cultural sense if nothing else? You asked the question: Is our government doing enough to preserve our national treasures? My answer to you is: What government? Do we have a government? Our government consists mainly of three types of incumbents: 1) Beheemah, Zekeebah, and Bagamah. Those are the three types of incumbents that we have in our governments. And you are asking me if they are doing enough to preserve our national treasures?
Mohammad Osaily Mohammed
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A - Added on 05/14/00 at 13:22:00Dear Mr. Raafat: I lived in Zamalek since 1959 and went to the German School (Deutsche Oberschule - D.E.O) in Mohamed Mazhar Street. In my last trip, I saw another high building arising in part of the school location. I hope the remaining area will not be yet another high-rise. (My neighbors always used to joke that the Zamalek may "sink in the Nile" from the heaviness of all the new high-rises!)I live in the US now but frequently go back home. Despite the noise and traffic jams, Cairo remains so fascinating to me. Your article on the Zamalek Villas (Villa HUG: Cairo's Endangered Species) touched me because it indicates that "someone" still cares and has the sense to try to preserve whatever is still left after the senseless destruction of the beautiful villas and trees of the Zamalek and Cairo in general! However, on a positive note, in my trip last year I have noticed some improvement. Zamalek remains (to me at least) one of the most charming suburbs of Cairo. Please keep up the good work as a breath of fresh air for the preservation of endangered architecture in Cairo.
Isis Sabet Mikhail Isis
Alabama, USA - Added on 05/14/00 at 09:42:56Is it possible to research Cairo land title deeds and other real property data via the Internet? I would need this research in English. If anyone has information about this, please Email me. Many thanks.
David F. Schmidt dave
Franklin, TN, USA - Added on 05/08/00 at 21:33:37Hi! Visiting this site has brought back those fantastic memories of my childhood, when I attended BISC in Cairo and shared fantastic moments with friends that will forever be in my heart (such as Kamal, Alia, Ragy, Ben, Leila Sylvia, Karim and Omar...hope to see ya in the near future, guys!).
Rigel Di Scala Rigel
Milan, Italy - Added on 04/19/00 at 08:46:31Glorious Alexandria - no longer there! The signs of destruction are all around. The wild extravagance in the pursuit of administrative triumphs also set in motion the train of destruction and laid Alexandria wide open to other kinds of urban barbarism. Architects and planners who were supposed to restore the elegant buildings, apartment houses, hotels particuliers, simply stripped them from shape, identity, and definition. They are now imposing almost every aspect of their uprooted background on us. Characteristic buildings and landscapes had been re-faced, and in the process made faceless, with stucco, and had to give way to some of the worst hybridization of modern cities anywhere in the world. Ugly elevated roadways, eminently wanting in symmetry, forced their way around the city with disturbingly paved side-walks inconsistent in patterns and color. I believe that Alexandria's self-image is now diminished by the perpetual humiliation caused by the architects and planners of its current so-called "facelift". Clearly, Alexandria cannot recover its former greatness in presence of such breed of architects and planners who committed, among other things, the following: -redesigned the Chatby cemetery fence in such an awful and disturbing pattern and colors. -Massacred landscapes around Horreya Avenue (specially in Glym & Cleopatra) with ugly structures lacking taste, style and character. - Destroyed the Saad Zaghloul Square garden which was designed by a famous Italian, if I am correct. Regards, Hazem Hussein
hazem Hussein
Alexandria, Egypt - Added on 04/19/00 at 05:01:20Hi. Your web-site brought back many fine memories of Egypt for me. I lived in Ma-adi, a Cairo suburb from June 1974 to June 1978. I attended Cairo American College in Digla. When I look back on that time of my life, I realize that it was one of my happiest. Your site helps keep those memories alive for me. Thank you!
Jerry Graham gerald
Washington, DC, United States of America - Added on 04/17/00 at 09:04:18Nice Site, linked from Cairo Times. Spent 10 months in Cairo (Zamalek) across the street from the Iraq Embassy. I was with the Canadian Embassy. Really enjoyed our great but short stay. Hoping someday to return for a visit.
Bruce Davison davison
Nanaimo , Canada - Added on 04/12/00 at 23:17:46So glad to find you, finally, I lived in Zamalek from 1984 to 1990, what great memories I still cherish. I will be a constant visitor.
Gloria Volpa volpa
Canada - Added on 02/14/00 at 15:44:07Keep up the good work!
Bill Odle-Kemp
San Antonio, Texas, USA - Added on 01/30/00 at 16:27:52Congratulations on the web site. I left Cairo 20 years ago and have returned to visit three times thus far (82, 90 and 95). I spent nine years at the English School in Heliopolis (ESC) known as "El Nasr School". If there is anybody who remembers those days, please get in touch. I also used to frequent the Heliopolis Sporting Club (Nady Heliopolis) in Misr El Gededa. Congratulations again for a job well done.
Hisham Salem Salem
Massachusettes, United States of America - Added on 01/29/00 at 20:12:56Following on my previous message (see below), I would be very grateful if anyone has more anecdotes, information, history or comments relating to the Benaroya, Palacci, Naggar or related families who lived in Cairo (probably Garden City) in the first half of the 19th century. Also, any persons who may have known my parents, Sidney Carton and Alice née Benaroya, with any insights they may bring about them. Cedric Carton
Cedric Carton cedric
Lausanne, Switzerland - Added on 01/17/00 at 23:53:10My memories of Garden City are still very strong even though I left Egypt in 1950 when I was just under 9 years old. Finding your page has brought back a feeling of identity that I had lost. It fills me with pride too to see how many of my mother's relatives left their mark in this section of Cairo. While it is never entirely healthy to dream of past glories, the sense of nostalgia that I have felt since finding out more about the Cairo district where I spent the first 9 years of my life is very strong. How I regret that my parents never felt it worthwhile to tell their children more about this splendid place where they lived. I have not been back to Egypt since 1955. It is now one of my priorities to visit again before it is too late. Cedric Carton
Cedric Carton cedric
Lausanne (temporarily), Switzerland - Added on 01/17/00 at 23:46:09This is an excellent website. I really learned a lot from it especially that all information I need are just at the tip of my fingertips. I could even an up-to-date information that would be very useful for me especially now that I am interested more in the study of Egyptian culture, history and governance. Good luck in your future endeavors.
Maricris C. Martin mackiez_cookie@mailcity.com
Manila, Philippines - Added on 01/04/00 at 18:48:19Tarek Heggy's article about Hussein El Shafie's interview was simply BRILLIANT... well done Tarek Well done too Samir Raafat, you continue to provide unsurpassed quality journalism that we have become so accustomed to from you that makes the regular visits to your website almost mandatory !!!- Thank You Samir for all the good work, and for keeping alive that very special part of Egypt that lives, and will always fondly remain, in our hearts. Happy New Year and New Millennium to all.
Reda G Wassef reda
Sydney, Australia - Added on 01/04/00 at 15:07:36
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