The Egyptian ministry released a statement saying: “A marine transport committee investigated the traffic of ships in the area, 12 hours before and after the malfunction, where the cables are located to figure out the possibility of being cut by a passing vessel and found out there were no passing ships at that time”. After […]
Not 100% mind you, but something like 70% after 2 undersea cables were damaged due to ship anchors. I phoned my Family in Alexandria, Egypt and they tell me that the Internet is so slow it is unusable. I can’t imagine living without broadband let alone without Internet at all.
It is a problem I face every day… it makes me mad just thinking about it! It is not something nice to find yourself daydreaming of the various ways that the car in front of you could meet its timely destruction 🙁 I have spent many hours in deep thought, trying to unravel the mysteries […]
The Islamic calendar (like the Chinese calendar) is based on lunar cycles (the month starts with the new moon)! To day is the fist day in the new year (1427 AH). The AH stands for After Hijra. The journey the Phrophet made from Makka to Medena in 623 AC! Anyways… may every year bring us […]
Sami Yusuf will be holding a concert in Alexandria, Egypt on February 12th at Bibliotheca Alexandrina! Tickets cost 20 LE, 40 LE or 60 LE!
I was walking to work one day when I noticed something quite strange… In egypt it is common practice in rural areas to put broken glass atop walls to stop theives from climbing over them. It is also common in all areas for older schoolboys to jump over the wall to skip school! AFAIK it […]
My friend kareem finally got his ‘katb ketab’ done! I am realy happy for him and his wife Sarah. I wish them all the best and a long happy life with lots of children! Here is a picture of them just before going to the mosque!
Yesterday was the last day Amr Khalid spent in Alexandria, in a 3 day workshop with the lifemaker teams! They mainly evaluated their efforts in the last year (SWAT analysis) and they talked about concentrating on 3 projects for the next 3 months. (more about this later) It was pretty cool to be able to […]
It is winter now in Egypt and that means rain!! Some people in other parts of the world get rain all the time so they may not get the importance of rain here in Egypt. We only get rain in winter… imagine that you had to wait year round just to see the wonderous view […]
Yesterday was the last day of the underwriting of Egypt Telecom stock for people here in Alexandria. In fact most Stock Brokerage Companies stoped accepting requests Monday. Needless to say that it was crowded, but just how crowded it was may supprise some. Luckily I had my new CX75 phone with me, so I got […]