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Yeah, diversification is a great thing, alas, it doesn´t and can not happen overnight! Furthermore - it´ll cost a great deal of money. Where should that come from? Egypt has depleted its financial resources by about 1/3 during the last 6 months to subsidize basic commodities. If the current...

I think a lot of people here would love to read what these should be. Or is it a state´s secret or some secret conspiracy...? ;)

From my own experience I can say the exact opposite on several accounts. They have acted on complaints, have given reasonable advise, have helped on legal issues - and all that without being affiliated or related to them in any way. The people I´ve dealt with were sensible and polite (without...

I think that´s the artikel you are referring to.

Wow... Did they find some generous sponsor, or what? If some rich guy really did put his own money into the CDWS, I would be very impressed - and applaud him!

Sorry, Crowley, for kidnapping your thread. But the fear of a non-secular state and the influence of certain religious groups in the future is exactely what people in Europe are mainly concerned about. They fear a hostile environment and as long as those fears are imminent they will stop coming.

Oh, c´mon now, don´t do that! The invasion of Iraq was a barbaric, unjustifyable act by a mad man in the White House, based on lies, who needed to rally his people behind a common enemy because of terrible approval rates at home. Cheney and his cohorts (Wolfowitz and others) had monetary gains...

Why the aggressiveness? I know what I´m talking about and you just illustrated my point! Of course they are very different! That´s just what I wrote. Because there are different factions there are different interpretations - something you denied before. And every school is convinced they, and...

Hmm... Wouldn´t you say that the Saudis and the Iranian religious leadership interpret the (same) Qur´an differently where it affects the daily lives, the rights and responsibility of their people? Wouldn´t you agree, that some interpretations of islamic terrorist groups have backing from one or...

I judge any society by the adherance to basic human rights. If those rights are withheld, if people are imprisoned or killed because their don´t conform to the view of the "rulers" (whoever they are), I have a hard time believing the majority of this society is happy with their personal...

What is not true? That some people want a fundmentalist regime or that this would end tourism? Well, I´m afraid both statements are true! Do you dispute that there are factions that want only the law of the Sharia and nothing else, that want no western democracy, no equal rights for women, no...

Everybody is worried! The increasing violence in the streets of Cairo threatens to change the peaceful revolution into a violent one. These pictures are all over Europe in the primetime news and are extensively covered by the print media. Many potential tourists who have thought (again) to visit...

Well, in Dahab there are still checkpoints north (Canyon, Blue Hole) and in the south. If they really make problems if you don´t have a valid permission, I don´t know...

Congratulations! Currently the people in charge are doing their best to ruin the egyptian tourism industry. Does anybody really think, these absurd measures (absurd = changing everything over night) will be without impact on tourism? Does anybody believe that´s the way to attract investors? Does...

I´m sorry to hear that! I didn´t know you were a slave and knowing your boss, it really surprises me that he has slaves. I thought better of him...:rofl3:

I am not quite sure what you are saying... Does that mean that they have resigned from the board? Have they been kicked out? Was the board dissolved an by who? Is there a board of directors right now? If yes: who´s on it and who appointed them? If no: who´s running the show now? This...

I have received two emails from the CDWS, stating that the funding was withdrawn despite having been granted the funds just a couple of weeks earlier. Therefore they have laid of staff but, as they wrote, will continue to work as before, except the technical departement, which has been...

Mornin´ Crowley, does your permit also expire on Sept. 6th 2011?

And who´s gonna pay for the training costs? Educational material (books, DVDs etc.), certification fees, personal DAN-insurances... Are we to also give language courses now, because they are part of the required skills? Are we then not only diving instructors, but also language teachers? Or do...

There are are other things that come to mind, reading this: If it were true, than after three years there would be absolutely no foreigners working in Eygpt! Each job vacancy can only be filled by a foreigner once - and only for up to three years. Good bye Egypt for foreigners in 2014! Sorry...