All marriages which are registered with the Ministry of Justice in Lazghouly Square Cairo are entered onto the Egyptian Civil Registration main Computer. As are all births and deaths which have been registered.
To obtain a copy of a marriage certificate either partner can go to any Segil El Medani (Civil Registration Dept usually attached to police stations) and request a copy. You must show either your Egyptian I.D card or if a foreigner you must show your passport. ONLY the wife or husband can make the request.
The fee is 7Le.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
URGENT CALL FOR AID CONVOY VOLUNTEERS IN CAIRO!
| Time | 24 February · 18:30 - 21:30 |
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| Location | Merryland, Heliopolis |
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| More info | To all the peopole who live in Heliopolis and Rehab and want to participate in the convey heading to assist our brothers and sisers in Libya, I'm starting this event but I'm going to need some volunteers in this, some ppl to help putting things in boxes and some ppl to protect the collected things: please note that we are not collecting money,just Meds, supplies and dry food. . The Medicines "most needed": _______________________ Cefotax 1gm Flumox 1gm Declophin amp Ciprofar 500+750 tab Dicynone amp Valium amp Pain killers Medical supplies : __________________________ Solvents, and Reid salt and glucose 5% Surgical Sutures Devices to give solutions Cotton, gauze Surgical Sutures "different sizes" on silk needle and silk bottles for blood transfusion Devices for blood transfusion Plaster Cannula "different Sizes" Food _____________ Flour Rice Sugar Beans Powder Milk Pasta for further information please call: 0190026299 or send an email to: libyanconvoy@gmail.com |
Monday, February 14, 2011
Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam Song for the world.
My People
by Yusuf Islam (aka Cat Stevens) on Sunday, 13 February 2011
Dear Friends,
If you wish to take part in adding your voice to support people around the world still dreaming of being unshackled from harsh authoritarian regimes, you will soon have a chance to do so.
Yusuf has written a song which is inspired by the world shaking call to freedom and the removal of oppression from the peoples of Tunisia and Egypt, the song called My People will soon be available and you'll be able to send a recording of your voice to be used on the chorus - God Willing.
If you would like to join in, this is how:
1. Listen to the chorus, "MY PEOPLE", here
2. Choose one of the 3 part harmony samples, and record yourself singing the words "MY PEOPLE",
3. Then send your recording as an MP3/ Wav or Aiff (with no background noise please) to:
mypeople@yusufislam.ae
To Download Yusuf's MP3 Sample to your computer right click and select 'Download Linked File'
We will try to use as many submissions as possible. The deadline for receiving your contribution will be Tuesday 15th February, 3pm GMT.
The track once completed will be made available as a FREE MP3 Download.
SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
link
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Friday, February 11, 2011
Egyptian Revolution 11th February 2011
The future is in their hands
Friday 11 February 2011
There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen.
The peoples of the Arab world, and therefore the rest of us, are now living through those weeks - described in words used by the Russian revolutionary Lenin a century ago.
Revolution is back on the agenda, on the front page of the New York Times even, at just the time when globalised capitalism is mired in its deepest economic crisis for generations and the seemingly almighty power of US imperialism is being demonstrated to be anything but.
The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia last month, triggering the heroic and ongoing uprising of the people of Egypt, the most populous and strategically significant Arab country, was a real revolution. So is Egypt's.
There was a foolish and shortlived attempt to dub the revolutionary uprising in Egypt the "Lotus revolution," but no amount of cheap advertising copy can devalue the profound and welcome changes that millions of Egyptians are fighting for.
The fate of that movement lies in the balance this weekend, as people across the globe take to the streets today in response to a call from Cairo for international solidarity.
But the courage of the protesters in Tahrir Square, in Alexandria, in the great port city of Suez, and in every town and city in Egypt, has already settled some questions definitively.
How long have we been told in the West that the poor benighted people of the Arab Muslim worlds are incapable of taking their futures into their own hands?
All the lies deployed to justify the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan took this great lie as their premise - that the West must bomb and blast the people of those countries into "democracy" because they are incapable of changing their societies themselves.
The fall of Ben Ali and the rise of the Egyptian masses has put paid to that essentially racist stereotype. The women in Egypt - young and old, with hijabs or not, university educated and from the slums - are showing that they do not need Laura Bush or Cheri Blair giving a faux-feminist gloss to F16s to liberate them. The sisters are doing it for themselves alongside men drawn from across the base of Egyptian society.
And the US State Department, British Foreign Office and French Quai d'Orsay don't like it one bit. It's not only their close personal connections with the torturing regimes of Ben Ali and Mubarak which now stand fully exposed. We know a little about Tony Blair, who still found Mubarak a force for good as the death toll from his clinging onto power climbed above 300.
More is at stake than these politicians' personal connections with Mubarak. The cornerstone of decades of US and Western policy of holding down the mass of the people in the region in the interests of oil, corporate control of trade and investment and Israel is shattering. Every Arab despot ruling the region almost without exception from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf knows it. Which is why the wind of change that is intoxicating their people is bringing a chill to each of those regimes.
And that's why the State Department and its counterparts, caught flat-footed over Christmas with the revolution against Ben Ali, have been bending might and mane to contain the revolution in Egypt. How could it be otherwise? Half the population of Egypt is on less than $2 a day, when the price of a kilo of tomatoes has increased fivefold in 12 months to exactly that daily wage.
The inspiring resurgence of the movement on the streets of Egypt has created further crisis for the regime and for its Western backers, who had to become more forthright in pushing Mubarak to go. They would prefer to have kept him. They would prefer to keep the regime without Mubarak, in the person of Suleiman. They are risking this revolution deepening and radicalising, so that when the regime's key figures do fall the great fountain of humanity in Egypt's streets will not be satisfied but will demand much more by way of political and social justice.
At the time of writing the heroes of Egypt were looking to do just that, with strikes spreading among government workers and calls for marches on government buildings on Friday.
For progressives in the West this is a historic development, and everyone must play their part to help ensure that progress wins in Egypt, not bloody repression in the name of the party of order.
We must ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of our governments. When they express support for the Egyptian revolution it is as a rope supports a hanging man. They want the army to be the bedrock of any future regime. They do not mean the army of 1973, which bravely fought against Israel. They do not mean the army of soldiers fraternising with their brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers in the streets. They mean the army of the Egyptian high command, the generals, who have been bought and paid for by Washington and who will do its bidding.
When Cameron, Clinton, Hague or Obama talk of democracy in Egypt and the region what they mean, to paraphrase that great Algerian St Augustine, is god grant them democracy, but not yet.
Hillary Clinton spelt it out. Democracy, she said, is not only about process, it is about outcomes. Quite right. But the outcome they fear is that any remotely democratic government in Egypt or Jordan would not produce the outcome of supine adherence to Western interests and the state of Israel.
In Egypt, according to Pew researchers, 82 per cent of people have a negative view of the US, and just 17 per cent positive. It's no mystery why. And so we hear desperate warnings from neocons, liberal imperialists and even some on the social democratic left against the chaos that will result from "snap elections." Egyptians, they say, must wait. But as Martin Luther King reminded us half a century ago writing from a jailhouse in Alabama, wait nearly always means never.
The final bogeyman is the creature David Cameron chose to summon up in his bierkeller rant in Munich last week - fear of Islam, hatred of Muslims, Islamophobia.
We cannot have democracy because the wrong guys may win - in this case the Muslim Brotherhood. Leave aside that the Brotherhood is just one opposition force among many and that it aspires to the kind of government represented by the AK party in Turkey, moderate and efficient by any measure.
The argument in fact has little to do with the Muslim Brotherhood or any other Islamically inspired political organisation. It is about refusing to accept a change that would threaten Western interests, that might inspire a unified Arab world to use its immense natural resources for the good of all the people there and the good of humanity as a whole.
It is, in short, an argument with the simple purpose of demobilising forces pushing for revolutionary change and democracy in Egypt and beyond, and strengthening the fingernail extractors, electrocutors and assassins who Western hegemony relies on.
But I do not see it working, even though it will intensify the racist atmosphere against the 18 million Muslims and immigrants living in Europe, who may well feel that the direct fight for a better future in the Maghreb and other regions they hail from is a fairly good model for struggling for a better life for all within Europe itself.
The sands of time have run out for the pharaoh. He may yet unleash rivers of blood in a bid to hold on. But this wind of change that blew sweetly first through Tunis and now Cairo will not stop there.
With it comes the possibility of undoing the legacy left from the colonial era of Sykes and Picot, of Edwardian gentlemen carving out new states and spheres of influence on the back of a napkin.
And the biggest outstanding injustice of all is Palestine. If the Egyptian regime falls to this great wave, the gates of Rafah will fall too and with them the siege on Gaza. Already the breeze is blowing in the West Bank against those who have enriched themselves while selling every Palestinian aspiration in the sham negotiations with Israel.
What is unfolding now in Egypt is not simply an national revolution, or even just an Arab revolution - it is a moment that holds out the prospect of the most profound change in the way the world is ordered, an historic event in the global struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.
Victory to the Egyptian revolution!
The peoples of the Arab world, and therefore the rest of us, are now living through those weeks - described in words used by the Russian revolutionary Lenin a century ago.
Revolution is back on the agenda, on the front page of the New York Times even, at just the time when globalised capitalism is mired in its deepest economic crisis for generations and the seemingly almighty power of US imperialism is being demonstrated to be anything but.
The overthrow of the Ben Ali dictatorship in Tunisia last month, triggering the heroic and ongoing uprising of the people of Egypt, the most populous and strategically significant Arab country, was a real revolution. So is Egypt's.
There was a foolish and shortlived attempt to dub the revolutionary uprising in Egypt the "Lotus revolution," but no amount of cheap advertising copy can devalue the profound and welcome changes that millions of Egyptians are fighting for.
The fate of that movement lies in the balance this weekend, as people across the globe take to the streets today in response to a call from Cairo for international solidarity.
But the courage of the protesters in Tahrir Square, in Alexandria, in the great port city of Suez, and in every town and city in Egypt, has already settled some questions definitively.
How long have we been told in the West that the poor benighted people of the Arab Muslim worlds are incapable of taking their futures into their own hands?
All the lies deployed to justify the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan took this great lie as their premise - that the West must bomb and blast the people of those countries into "democracy" because they are incapable of changing their societies themselves.
The fall of Ben Ali and the rise of the Egyptian masses has put paid to that essentially racist stereotype. The women in Egypt - young and old, with hijabs or not, university educated and from the slums - are showing that they do not need Laura Bush or Cheri Blair giving a faux-feminist gloss to F16s to liberate them. The sisters are doing it for themselves alongside men drawn from across the base of Egyptian society.
And the US State Department, British Foreign Office and French Quai d'Orsay don't like it one bit. It's not only their close personal connections with the torturing regimes of Ben Ali and Mubarak which now stand fully exposed. We know a little about Tony Blair, who still found Mubarak a force for good as the death toll from his clinging onto power climbed above 300.
More is at stake than these politicians' personal connections with Mubarak. The cornerstone of decades of US and Western policy of holding down the mass of the people in the region in the interests of oil, corporate control of trade and investment and Israel is shattering. Every Arab despot ruling the region almost without exception from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf knows it. Which is why the wind of change that is intoxicating their people is bringing a chill to each of those regimes.
And that's why the State Department and its counterparts, caught flat-footed over Christmas with the revolution against Ben Ali, have been bending might and mane to contain the revolution in Egypt. How could it be otherwise? Half the population of Egypt is on less than $2 a day, when the price of a kilo of tomatoes has increased fivefold in 12 months to exactly that daily wage.
The inspiring resurgence of the movement on the streets of Egypt has created further crisis for the regime and for its Western backers, who had to become more forthright in pushing Mubarak to go. They would prefer to have kept him. They would prefer to keep the regime without Mubarak, in the person of Suleiman. They are risking this revolution deepening and radicalising, so that when the regime's key figures do fall the great fountain of humanity in Egypt's streets will not be satisfied but will demand much more by way of political and social justice.
At the time of writing the heroes of Egypt were looking to do just that, with strikes spreading among government workers and calls for marches on government buildings on Friday.
For progressives in the West this is a historic development, and everyone must play their part to help ensure that progress wins in Egypt, not bloody repression in the name of the party of order.
We must ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of our governments. When they express support for the Egyptian revolution it is as a rope supports a hanging man. They want the army to be the bedrock of any future regime. They do not mean the army of 1973, which bravely fought against Israel. They do not mean the army of soldiers fraternising with their brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers in the streets. They mean the army of the Egyptian high command, the generals, who have been bought and paid for by Washington and who will do its bidding.
When Cameron, Clinton, Hague or Obama talk of democracy in Egypt and the region what they mean, to paraphrase that great Algerian St Augustine, is god grant them democracy, but not yet.
Hillary Clinton spelt it out. Democracy, she said, is not only about process, it is about outcomes. Quite right. But the outcome they fear is that any remotely democratic government in Egypt or Jordan would not produce the outcome of supine adherence to Western interests and the state of Israel.
In Egypt, according to Pew researchers, 82 per cent of people have a negative view of the US, and just 17 per cent positive. It's no mystery why. And so we hear desperate warnings from neocons, liberal imperialists and even some on the social democratic left against the chaos that will result from "snap elections." Egyptians, they say, must wait. But as Martin Luther King reminded us half a century ago writing from a jailhouse in Alabama, wait nearly always means never.
The final bogeyman is the creature David Cameron chose to summon up in his bierkeller rant in Munich last week - fear of Islam, hatred of Muslims, Islamophobia.
We cannot have democracy because the wrong guys may win - in this case the Muslim Brotherhood. Leave aside that the Brotherhood is just one opposition force among many and that it aspires to the kind of government represented by the AK party in Turkey, moderate and efficient by any measure.
The argument in fact has little to do with the Muslim Brotherhood or any other Islamically inspired political organisation. It is about refusing to accept a change that would threaten Western interests, that might inspire a unified Arab world to use its immense natural resources for the good of all the people there and the good of humanity as a whole.
It is, in short, an argument with the simple purpose of demobilising forces pushing for revolutionary change and democracy in Egypt and beyond, and strengthening the fingernail extractors, electrocutors and assassins who Western hegemony relies on.
But I do not see it working, even though it will intensify the racist atmosphere against the 18 million Muslims and immigrants living in Europe, who may well feel that the direct fight for a better future in the Maghreb and other regions they hail from is a fairly good model for struggling for a better life for all within Europe itself.
The sands of time have run out for the pharaoh. He may yet unleash rivers of blood in a bid to hold on. But this wind of change that blew sweetly first through Tunis and now Cairo will not stop there.
With it comes the possibility of undoing the legacy left from the colonial era of Sykes and Picot, of Edwardian gentlemen carving out new states and spheres of influence on the back of a napkin.
And the biggest outstanding injustice of all is Palestine. If the Egyptian regime falls to this great wave, the gates of Rafah will fall too and with them the siege on Gaza. Already the breeze is blowing in the West Bank against those who have enriched themselves while selling every Palestinian aspiration in the sham negotiations with Israel.
What is unfolding now in Egypt is not simply an national revolution, or even just an Arab revolution - it is a moment that holds out the prospect of the most profound change in the way the world is ordered, an historic event in the global struggle of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against the exploiter.
Victory to the Egyptian revolution!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Where to get supplies in Ras Sidr
Ras Sidr stretches for 90Km along the coastal South Sinai Peninsula.
It is dotted on the coastal side with various resorts, and on the opposite side of the Sharm el Sheikh Road by desert.
From the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, your first step onto the Sinai and heading towards the South and Sharm el Sheikh you will pass a few bedouin villages, the first one being Oyun Musa. This is where the Moses Springs are and the Oyun Musa Fortified Artillery Museum and bunker (both open to visitors).
Passing Oyun Musa and heading South you will pass the resorts on your right and a few olive and tamarind groves on your left.
If you need very basic groceries Oyun Musa village has a small store.
There are also a few small grocer shops on the entrances of a couple of the first few resorts.
There is one petrol station not far after the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel and three more in Ras Sidr Town.
Fresh camel milk is sold from two small wooden kiosks with a camel painted on the front and sides by the side of the road on the right as you head South. Both are between Oyun Musa village and Oyun Musa Fortified Artillery Bunker.
There are a couple of coach stops serving snacks between Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel and Ras Sidr Town and a further four coach stops with two in Ras Sidr on the main highway at the entrance to Ras Sidr, and at the village of Abu Suweir about 5KM south of Ras Sidr Town has a further two coach stops.
The village of Abu Suweir has a few grocer shop stores and hardware stores and on Tuesday mornings Abu Suweir has the bedouin market two KM up the Abu Suweir Main Road, which sells hardware, fresh fish, live poultry and sheep, dried pulses, clothing, pots and pans and various foodstuffs.
The main area for shopping is Ras Sidr Town. At the entrance to Ras Sidr just past the police station there is a large souk area.
The souk has a few large grocers and many smaller grocery shops all types of groceries, Egyptian fast food, phone cards, newspapers, cigarettes,mobile phones and electronics.
Plumbing supplies, electrical supplies. Swimming and diving gear and toys. Clothing and bric a brac. Carpets and bedding and beds. Carpenters making furniture and kitchens. Tiling shops and bathroom fittings. Baths and showers. Bicycles for sale and rental. Fresh fish, poultry and fresh meat. Fresh bread.
You can buy fishing rods, swimwear, goggles, snorkels and fins. Trunks, shorts and swimsuits of all types. Scarves and bandanas and sunglasses. Sandals, trainers, beach shoes, deck shoes and diving bootees. Football shirts, holiday wear, footballs, and other beach toys.
There are two internet cafes. One stationery shop and a post office.
There is a large general hospital, a few doctor surgeries and one medical testing lab.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Shark WARNING!
A WARNING has been issued by the Egyptian Government to bathers in the Red Sea resport of Sharm el Sheikh to avoid swimming in the waters due to shark attacks which have left 2 dead and 3 injured.
Swimming is prohibited, at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Egyptian authorities have indefinitely closed the resort's beaches for swimming after oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist last week, and tore the arm off an elderly German tourist on Sunday, killing her almost immediately.
Marine biologists and environmental ministers are meeting in Alexandria to discuss the matter.
Swimming is prohibited, at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. Egyptian authorities have indefinitely closed the resort's beaches for swimming after oceanic white tip sharks mauled three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist last week, and tore the arm off an elderly German tourist on Sunday, killing her almost immediately.
Marine biologists and environmental ministers are meeting in Alexandria to discuss the matter.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Acquiring a copy of Criminal Record (Feesh wa Tashbee)
If a foreigner wishes to obtain an Egyptian ID card and Passport bearing a 'Western style surname' ( i.e husbands surname).
The applicant must obtain a copy of their Egyptian criminal record and take this along with the Egyptian birth certificate and Al Azhar Certificate to Abbaseya Segil el Medani.
Copy of the criminal record ( Feesh wa Tashbee ) must be obtained from the applicants local police station.
No appointment required and police will require a photocopy of the marriage certificate, Egyptian Citizenship Certificate and passport.
Applicant will then have their fingerprints taken digitally, and a webcam photograph taken.
Fee is 15Le and the process takes around 10 minutes and a copy of the criminal record is available for pick up next day.
The applicant must obtain a copy of their Egyptian criminal record and take this along with the Egyptian birth certificate and Al Azhar Certificate to Abbaseya Segil el Medani.
Copy of the criminal record ( Feesh wa Tashbee ) must be obtained from the applicants local police station.
No appointment required and police will require a photocopy of the marriage certificate, Egyptian Citizenship Certificate and passport.
Applicant will then have their fingerprints taken digitally, and a webcam photograph taken.
Fee is 15Le and the process takes around 10 minutes and a copy of the criminal record is available for pick up next day.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Acquiring Egyptian birth certificate for Foreigners.
Possession of a valid Egyptian birth certificate is vital to obtaining Egyptian I.D and an Egyptian Passport for a foreign spouse of an Egyptian Citizen. You do not have to be born in Egypt to have this done. It is purely a formality.
see: Acquiring Egyptian I.D and passport
The Egyptian Birth Certificate must be acquired prior to applying with your Egyptian Citizenship Certificate (from Mogamma) at the Segil al Madani, Civil Registration Department at Abbaseya.
Egyptian Birth Certificate (see sample below)
Most police stations have a Segil al Madani Dept attached to them, where for 7Le you can have Birth certificates issued for yourself or family members.
The office at Abbaseya also has a Segil al Madani on one of it's floors.
It doesn't matter which Segil al Madani you go to to get your birth certificate. They are all on a central computer. The HQ is the Abbasseya one.
Once you have applied for your I.D. and passport at Abbasseya, you then have to wait approx 10 days before acquiring the Egyptian Birth Certificate at any Segil al Medani since it takes a week or so to show up on the national computers. You could wait those 10 days and get the birth certificate at the Abbasseya Office as you have to return there in the 10-14 days to complete your I.D and Passport application process, or get it at any Segil al Madani.
To get the Egyptian Birth Certificate the husband of the applicant must apply, showing his own I.D. No documents from the wife are required, as the information will already be on the computer system having been entered during the Abbasseya visit to apply for Egyptian ID and Passport 10 days previous.
You can buy multiple copies and you should buy at least two copies as when you return to Abbasseya they will keep one original copy.
see: Acquiring Egyptian I.D and passport
The Egyptian Birth Certificate must be acquired prior to applying with your Egyptian Citizenship Certificate (from Mogamma) at the Segil al Madani, Civil Registration Department at Abbaseya.
Egyptian Birth Certificate (see sample below)
The office at Abbaseya also has a Segil al Madani on one of it's floors.
It doesn't matter which Segil al Madani you go to to get your birth certificate. They are all on a central computer. The HQ is the Abbasseya one.
Once you have applied for your I.D. and passport at Abbasseya, you then have to wait approx 10 days before acquiring the Egyptian Birth Certificate at any Segil al Medani since it takes a week or so to show up on the national computers. You could wait those 10 days and get the birth certificate at the Abbasseya Office as you have to return there in the 10-14 days to complete your I.D and Passport application process, or get it at any Segil al Madani.
To get the Egyptian Birth Certificate the husband of the applicant must apply, showing his own I.D. No documents from the wife are required, as the information will already be on the computer system having been entered during the Abbasseya visit to apply for Egyptian ID and Passport 10 days previous.
You can buy multiple copies and you should buy at least two copies as when you return to Abbasseya they will keep one original copy.
Shopping, take away, and supplies in Ras Sudr.
Petrol
A few KM before the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel before entering Sinai.
A few KM after going through the Ahmed hamdi Tunnel heading South on the Sharm El Sheikh Rd.
There are 3 petrol stations in the town of Ras Sudr.
Mechanic Breakdown Services.
At the petrol stations along the way.
In Oyun Musa village.
In the souk area in Ras Sidr Town.
In Abu Suweir Village.
Tea, coffee, and snacks.
The NPCO petrol station before Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel.
The rest stop just before you enter the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel at the toll on your right.
Oyun Musa Rest stop.
Ras Sidr Town souk, or the two coach rest stops just as you leave the Town of Ras Sidr.
Abu Suweir Village.
Emergency Services.
Ambulance
call: 123
There are emergency ambulances dotted all along the Suez Road, at the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel, every 30-50 KM in Sinai, Ras Sidr Town next to the Bus Station, Abu Suweir Village. The ambulances are bright orange or bright lime green, and sit in pairs in Ambulance stations dotted along the highway clearly visible to drivers.
The main hospitals are in Suez and in Ras Sidr Town.
Police
call: 122
There are police, immigration police, tourist police and army officials at the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel Toll.
Police checkpoint at Oyun Musa.
Police HQ for Ras Sidr as you enter Ras Sidr 500 mtres after the Mosaic Mubarak Sign on the right and just before the Mosaic 3 fish statue Main Street Ras Sidr.
Police and Army checkpoint Abu Suweir Village. Turn left at the Dream Cafe and 500 mtres ahead is a police checkpoint just past the army barracks.
Fire
call: 180
Fire trucks at all the Army Barracks dotted along the Suez and Sharm el Sheikh Road.
Fire trucks at the entrances both sides of the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel.
Fire Station Ras Sidr Town.
Egyptian style take away food (incl grilled chickens, fish and kofta).
Ras Sidr Town Souk area.
Hadiya Restaurant Main St Ras Sidr.
Pizza and Pasta
San Remo Restaurant (opposite public beach entrance on seafront, Ras Sidr).
Fantasia Resort just before Hamam Pharoun.
La Hacienda resort.
Moon Beach resort.
Green Sudr Resort.
A La Carte menu restaurant
Ceceil Hotel, Ras Sidr Town.
Camel milk
There are two kiosks selling fresh camel milk in Ouyn Musa. The kiosks are small wooden tekephone box sized structures with camels painted on the side and a flap opening up when open to sale.
Groceries
Small supermarket at Banana Beach Resort just after Nozha Beach resort visible from highway.
Ras Sidr Town souk area, various large and small grocers, butchers, fish sellers, fruit and vegetables , bread bakery.
Abu Suweir Village.
Fantasia Resort.
Moon Beach resort.
Phone cards, post office, and Internet Cafe.
Ras Sidr Town souk area.
Abu Suweir Village.
Swimming and diving gear.
Ras Sidr Town Souk area.
Clothing and footwear.
Ras Sidr Town Souk area.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Green Sudr Resort
The Green Sudr resort is around 20KM from Ras Sidr Town heading South on the Sharm Road. It has a large sign and is situated on the coastal side of the road and before and next to Sinai Stars (previously Ramada) resort.
At present it is being upgraded, but is still open to day trippers and renters.
Because it is being upgraded it is a little untidy but still well worth renting as it has probably the best beach in all of Ras Sudr.
The reception area is spacious and clean and it has a buffet breakfast and buffet dinner menu. It has a very nice bar and a billiard table. Popular amongst tourists in the evenings as it has music.
The beach is spectacular.
Completely smooth sand with no rocks or shells and metres and metres of it. It has 2 man made lagoons with a depth of 5 metres for wind surfers to train. A long walkway out to the deeper waters where you can just sit or lie on the sunbeds and watch the sun go down.
The water out of the lagoons are shallow and safe for children. You will see dolphins bobbing up and down in the evenings. It has small fish and when you go out a bit deeper there are a few reefs.
If you walk to the end of the beachfront heading North towards Ras Sidr and not South towards the Sinai Stars resort you will see an abandoned fishing boat stranded on the shore. A casualty of the freak rains which hit Ras Sidr in the early part of 2010. You can climb onto the boat easily.
If you look out Northwards from the boat you will see an extremely long pier in the distance.
This is part of a new development which will have one of the longest piers in Egypt reaching out to an island in the middle of the Red Sea. It is still under construction but can be easily viewed and if you have the strength you can walk in the shallow waters out to it.
The Beach at Green Sudr is another great place to kite surf. All year round breezes and shallow waters with perfect sands make it a divers, surfers paradise.
Green Sudr has it's own Kite Surfing Centre. 'Mistral and Kite Riders' both have kiting and surfing equipment for hire.
Green Sudr is not the resort you would book if you were looking for an 18-30 disco, touristy destination.
But it is perfect for water sports enthusiasts and families who like to spend a holiday on the beach.
At present it is being upgraded, but is still open to day trippers and renters.
Because it is being upgraded it is a little untidy but still well worth renting as it has probably the best beach in all of Ras Sudr.
The reception area is spacious and clean and it has a buffet breakfast and buffet dinner menu. It has a very nice bar and a billiard table. Popular amongst tourists in the evenings as it has music.
The beach is spectacular.
Completely smooth sand with no rocks or shells and metres and metres of it. It has 2 man made lagoons with a depth of 5 metres for wind surfers to train. A long walkway out to the deeper waters where you can just sit or lie on the sunbeds and watch the sun go down.
The water out of the lagoons are shallow and safe for children. You will see dolphins bobbing up and down in the evenings. It has small fish and when you go out a bit deeper there are a few reefs.
If you walk to the end of the beachfront heading North towards Ras Sidr and not South towards the Sinai Stars resort you will see an abandoned fishing boat stranded on the shore. A casualty of the freak rains which hit Ras Sidr in the early part of 2010. You can climb onto the boat easily.
If you look out Northwards from the boat you will see an extremely long pier in the distance.
This is part of a new development which will have one of the longest piers in Egypt reaching out to an island in the middle of the Red Sea. It is still under construction but can be easily viewed and if you have the strength you can walk in the shallow waters out to it.
The Beach at Green Sudr is another great place to kite surf. All year round breezes and shallow waters with perfect sands make it a divers, surfers paradise.
Green Sudr has it's own Kite Surfing Centre. 'Mistral and Kite Riders' both have kiting and surfing equipment for hire.
Green Sudr is not the resort you would book if you were looking for an 18-30 disco, touristy destination.
But it is perfect for water sports enthusiasts and families who like to spend a holiday on the beach.
Paradise Resort Ras Sidr.
We have just returned from another fabulous week in Ras Sidr.
We have our own apartment, so stay there when we go but we spent a few days roaming around the various resorts in Ras Sidr to give you an update for anyone wishing to take a trip there to spend a couple of weeks or a few days by the beach.
All of the usual resorts have good beaches, but some have better facilities than others.
The best that we saw was the Paradise Beach resort.
Paradise Beach Resort is around 10 KM from Ras Sidr town heading south on the Sharm Road. Once you pass the village of Abu Suweir after about 5 KM you will see a sign on your left pointing down towards the coast. Follow that road all the way down to the T junction (about 2KM), then at the junction turn left at the sign for Paradise Resort.
A little way along you will come to Paradise entrance.
It is divided into 2 sections.
A beautiful compound of villas and apartments for rental and sale, and the Hotel.
The Compound.
The compound has beautiful gardens, a few swimming pools with bars and snack available, nice lawns with little water features and all of it facing the sea.
The apartments and villas are of a high standard and all are fully equipped. All have rooftop barbecues .
It is Christian owned and only 'Western' style swimwear is allowed. It is not a place where you will see the beach filled with women covered from head to toe in Summer heat. More what you would see in a foreign beach.
The villas and apartments can be rented and hotel can be booked:
The Hotel.
The Paradise Hotel is to the right as you enter the resort. It has a childrens playpark nearby, and a tennis and a basketball court. The foyer is clean and inviting and has billiards, a large fireplace and bar. Breakfast and Dinner is served in the restaurant for guests. The self catering apartment renters can also dine in the restaurant.
The nearest grocers or take aways are 10KM in Ras Sidr.
The Kite Surfing Centre.
Club Nathalie Simon is a very well equipped Kite surfing, wind surfing centre. It has all the latest equipments for hire.
It is busy with surfers and has a seated shaded area where you can relax and chat with fellow surfers. It's a very friendly atmosphere where first timers would feel very welcome. The owners are French and German and both speak English also. They also have staff who speak Arabic.
The lagoon is perfect for surfing with kites or wind surfers with a steady breeze year round. Clean sandy beach, with some rock pools and some areas which have stones and shells and water like all of Ras Sidr is mainly shallow. Very safe for children. It has a lifeguard in high season and a dinghy patrol when surfers or canoes are in the water.
Definitely one of the best Kite Surfing Centres in Ras Sidr.
It is advisable to buy diving booties due to the stones and shells in some parts of the beach. You can buy them at the Kite hire centre on the beach or you can buy them like I did in one of the many beach supply stores in Ras Sidr town. They range between 30 and 40le a pair.
Beach inflatables, swimwear, teeshirts, shorts, fishing gear, buckets and spades and small dinghys can also be bought in the shops in Ras Sidr if you forget to bring yours.
The Marina.
At the opposite end of the beach to the Kite Centre ( about a 5 mins walk away ) is a small marina and jetty.
There are private boats and launches and boats and canoes for rent here.
For further details contact:
Tel: +2 0 1013870102 +2 0 105413332 +2 0 693870100
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Acquiring Egyptian I.D with name change to husbands on Citizenship Card
Foreigners who marry Egyptian spouses who are applying for Egyptian Citizenship may face the problem of having the new Egyptian ID, Citizenship Card and Passport being issued in their maiden names. This is because the Mogamma ONLY rely on your marriage certificate as proof of right to citizenship and not your passport which may be in your new married name. The marriage Certificate will obviously be in your maiden name.
This will obviously result in you having two identities.
It can be overcome in three ways.
1. If you were married abroad, you simply re marry in Egypt. That way your new passport with your Egyptian husbands name as yours own now, will be used as proof of ID and the name on your Egyptian marriage certificate will be in your married and not maiden name.
2. If you plan to marry in Egypt and live in Egypt your only solution is when you convert to Islam .
When you convert to Islam you are asked whether you'd like to change your name to an Islamic one. You can then choose any Islamic sequence of names you like and still keep your birth first name.
So pre marriage your name may be i.e. Mary Anne Brown.
You can now change that to Mary (then your husbands names) Mahmoud Lotfi Aziz etc. Then get married in Egypt in your new name and show your Conversion to Islam Certificate which MUST be legalized by the MOJ,to the marriage registrar also in the MOJ building.
3. If you are already married and have your Egyptian husbands name on all your documents, your Egyptian Citizenship will STILL be issued in your maiden name no matter what. The only way around this is to go to Al Azhar and convert, get the conversion certificate legalized by the MOJ in Downtown, then take this to Abbasseya Civil Registration Dept when you apply for your I.D and Passport. Because it has been legalized by the MOJ they will accept this and change the name from the Citizenship one used on your Citizenship Card to the new one onto your I.D and passport.
see : Converting to Islam in Egypt
Deed polls done in other countries are not acceptable proof to change names here in Egypt.
If you are a convert to Islam and have the Al Azhar Certificate with the new name on it and have that legalized at the Ministry of Justice, you can have your married name instead of maiden name on your new Egyptian I.D.
Once you have the Egyptian birth certificate, you need then to go to any police station and ask for your criminal record. When you first apply for I.D at Abbaseya your details are entered onto the central computer and after 10 days you can pick up your birth certificate. After those 10 days you will also be able to go to any police station and they will issue you with your criminal record sheet.
If you are changing name you MUST return to the Segil al Madani in Abbaseya and not your local one. The local one is only for applying for ID if you are NOT changing surname.
You must also get the Government Form 80 from the desk on the same floor of the Segil el Madani and complete it.
You then take the birth certificate, police criminal record, and Form 80 to the change of name desk at Abbaseya Segil al Medani with one photocopy of your Al Azhar Certificate. In 21 days you go back to the same desk and collect your notification of change of name which will have been issued by the court.
This will obviously result in you having two identities.
It can be overcome in three ways.
1. If you were married abroad, you simply re marry in Egypt. That way your new passport with your Egyptian husbands name as yours own now, will be used as proof of ID and the name on your Egyptian marriage certificate will be in your married and not maiden name.
2. If you plan to marry in Egypt and live in Egypt your only solution is when you convert to Islam .
When you convert to Islam you are asked whether you'd like to change your name to an Islamic one. You can then choose any Islamic sequence of names you like and still keep your birth first name.
So pre marriage your name may be i.e. Mary Anne Brown.
You can now change that to Mary (then your husbands names) Mahmoud Lotfi Aziz etc. Then get married in Egypt in your new name and show your Conversion to Islam Certificate which MUST be legalized by the MOJ,to the marriage registrar also in the MOJ building.
3. If you are already married and have your Egyptian husbands name on all your documents, your Egyptian Citizenship will STILL be issued in your maiden name no matter what. The only way around this is to go to Al Azhar and convert, get the conversion certificate legalized by the MOJ in Downtown, then take this to Abbasseya Civil Registration Dept when you apply for your I.D and Passport. Because it has been legalized by the MOJ they will accept this and change the name from the Citizenship one used on your Citizenship Card to the new one onto your I.D and passport.
see : Converting to Islam in Egypt
Deed polls done in other countries are not acceptable proof to change names here in Egypt.
If you are a convert to Islam and have the Al Azhar Certificate with the new name on it and have that legalized at the Ministry of Justice, you can have your married name instead of maiden name on your new Egyptian I.D.
Once you have the Egyptian birth certificate, you need then to go to any police station and ask for your criminal record. When you first apply for I.D at Abbaseya your details are entered onto the central computer and after 10 days you can pick up your birth certificate. After those 10 days you will also be able to go to any police station and they will issue you with your criminal record sheet.
If you are changing name you MUST return to the Segil al Madani in Abbaseya and not your local one. The local one is only for applying for ID if you are NOT changing surname.
You must also get the Government Form 80 from the desk on the same floor of the Segil el Madani and complete it.
You then take the birth certificate, police criminal record, and Form 80 to the change of name desk at Abbaseya Segil al Medani with one photocopy of your Al Azhar Certificate. In 21 days you go back to the same desk and collect your notification of change of name which will have been issued by the court.
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