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My Scholarship entry - Understanding a Culture through Food

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 | By writing_the_world | Views [3660] | Comments [1] | Scholarship Entry

A Feast Fit for a Pharaoh Our taxi slams on its breaks, narrowly avoiding a malnourished donkey. Ironically, the scrawny animal draws a rusty oven of sweet potatoes mounted on wonky wheels. "It's the batata man!" announces the driver. Suddenly he pulls ... Read more >

Tags: #2012writing, cairo, egypt, food, travel writing scholarship, travel writing scholarship 2012, travelwriting

Old Cairo

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 | By damonlk | Views [1287] | Comments [1]

Old, or rather historic, or rather Fatimid, or rather Islamic Cairo has changed its name almost as often as rulers have come and gone over the centuries. The most recent of the names [old and historic] are designed to reduce the emphasis on precisely ... Read more >

streets of glue (rose)

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 | By huw-and-rose | Views [1116] | Comments [2]

I won't call it a new year's resolution, as that would mean it had been broken before it had even begun, it being mid-January already somehow (where do the days go?) but I do intend to write this blog more often in 2011. I manage most day to find ... Read more >

my first rollercoaster

Fri, 8 Jun 2007 | By hpsauce | Views [903]

This is the feeling I had as we careened through the streets of Cairo. The driving style there is similar to Indo, but they don´t even bother putting lines on the highways since they know noone follows them (which i thought was quite efficient). There ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

We become parents...sort of

Tue, 12 May 2009 | By houdyman | Views [831]

We arrived early back in Cairo from Luxor and set off to get our Indian visas started. We found out to our surprise it takes about a week so instead of staying in Cairo we decided to take the overnight bus to Dahab on the Red Sea coast where we could ... Read more >

Egypt, Ras Sudr: Matarma Bay, A Peaceful State Of Mind

Wed, 10 Jun 2015 | By larasabry | Views [755]

To sit and gaze at the colors that dance and crash when the clock hits sunset hour, to hear the waves of the ocean singing a giggle-like melody that is so familiar and cheerful in its nature that it draws ... Read more >

Tags: a beautiful company, admiration of life, beauty, huts, meditation, sea, simplicity, sunsets

Egypt

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 | By jmmal2 | Views [628] | Comments [2]

Egypt for 10 nights is guaranteed to blow your mind. We went on a travel talk tour, so all accom, transport, guides etc was organised and im really glad we did this as i think we would have had quite a time takling egypt. Started off with 2 days in ... Read more >

welcoming in Egypt

Sat, 26 Apr 2014 | By | Views [309] | Scholarship Entry

Our group of 20 of us did an overnight tour in Cairo, which for we singles was less than 1/3 the price of the HAL tour (same hotel), in a mini-bus. 3 hours from Alexandria to Giza the first day was a long trip, but there was a pleasant roadside stop. ... Read more >

Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip

Coffee Forfeit

Fri, 7 Aug 2009 | By ashlee | Views [200]

I can't compete any more. They win! tHey don't want me around, I won't be. They get mad at me because I'm not part of hte group when others are around but don't they see that they are making me this way? We're doing ministry. We're all going to coffee ... Read more >

Gallery: Dahab, Sinai

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 | By jamie_candice | Photo Gallery

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My Photo scholarship 2010 entry

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 | By rachel_tobias | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

I do not consider myself a religious person. But my time in Siwa Oasis, a long and trying car ride from downtown Cairo, revealed a spirituality within me that I had never before experienced. Something happened to me as we hurdled out into the middle ... Read more >
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Tags: #2010wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2010

Photos: Parallel universe

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 | By vedra | Photo Gallery

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JozephEzzatPhotography

Sat, 22 Nov 2014 | By | Flickr Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry

this project is about taking a photo every day through the 365 days of the year which will help me to improve my cinematography compositions in the film-making
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship