If going to Egypt next month. What should i read beforehand ?
literature, travel writing, history, all of it really.
If going to Egypt next month. What should i read beforehand ? literature, travel writing, history, all of it really.
If going to Egypt next month. What should i read beforehand ?
literature, travel writing, history, all of it really.
A guide on how not to be scammed and robbed by the locals
THIS and also be aware of the laws. You don't want to fuck up in a place like Egypt.
Call of the Crocodile
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Any of this: https://egyptology.yale.edu/academics/courses
The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/the-nile-basin/77DE05D66A6B01EBB9511B9F41CEBB85
https://www.sup.org/books/extra/?id=29529&i=Excerpt%20from%20Introduction.html
Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
Fuck off gay. Let me guess, greek/roman philosophers are next?
Flaubert in Egypt. Is Mahfouz Egyptian?
Im Egyptian anon, I can help if you need. You dont really have to know anything special, just learn how to bargain and haggle. Also if you’re a woman you will probably feel uncomfortable, the local men here are pretty rude and often harass foreign women.
>The local men will harass foreign women
SOVL
Im a guy though i will be with a female relative -- we were each going separately, but i got bullied into it since its probably best she doesn't go alone.
Give me unusual, off the beaten path, places to visit, particularly in Cairo.
And just good books in general. Im quite excited to see it all but i shamefully know very little.
Damn what is it with these girls and their desire to wander the middle east and north africa alone. Like moths to a flame...
As for books, Watari's The Egyptian is massive KINO. But probably not what you're looking for. For travel books I always check the catalogue of Eland Books, they have one I haven't read called The Pharaoh's Shadow: Travels in Ancient and Modern Egypt, might be worth a look.
Thanks anon.
how safe is it? like i said well be in Cairo for the most part, i want to go explore around, probably gonna do that alone.
Also i really want to climb a pyramid.
Don't let the girl out of your sight, ever, she's 100% certain to be harassed (and possibly even worse). In fact, she's very likely to be harassed in your presence as well. Why anyone would go to Egypt in 2022 is beyond me, such a disgusting, vile place. Show her link related.
>i want to go explore around
There's nothing to see but overpopulated urban decay. You WILL get mugged and scammed.
fun story, i asked a friend who was there 4 years ago and he says he was propositioned by men twice, and he is a big ginger dude.
But i would like to know some lit places, maybe authors homes or out of the way museums
go to the Coptic quarter in Cairo. A lot of cool ancient churches there. All the Copts I know are really decent people.
>Coptic quarter
Ohhh looks lovely. Give me more
Oh you gotta go see the hanging church and the church where Mary and Joseph ran to. Also there’s a pretty old gnomish synagogue
Fuck off, you have been spoonfed enough. Go to
fag
You must visit the tomb of René Guénon (pbuh).
thats a a solid idea. I should read the guy first. I kind of avoid lit meme authors tho
Thanks. What im looking for. More of that please
>Muslimgauze in the background
Pure larp.
PBUH
Don't do it, the giza death star will activate and you'll get vaporized.
Crowley's The Book of the Law and his account of how it came about. Both found the the Weiser printing of Book 4 Magick
The Pyramid Texts and the Book of the Dead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_Texts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead
Jan Assmann?
Fingerprints of the Gods
Magicians of the Gods
The Enneads, quick you don't have much time to cram. You have a showdown with an Egyptian magi on your last night before the flight out.
I've heard that Egypt is shit to visit
any good Egyptian poets?
The issue is that a lot of the poems don’t really work in English y’know and idk if there are translations
Shame.
accurate is one thing, good is another. People translate anything nower days but most of it is terrible
BTW im half Russian, should i lead with that? We had a relationship back in the 70's. Though IDK if a=thats a good or a bad thing.
also im getting A History of Egypt: From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, to see how it is. they have it for 5$ at my local bookstore.
start with the greeks
this, just read Herodotus and take a cruise up to Aswan
the temple in man
Nothing. Just learn the language retard
there is an Egyptian anon who posts so wait for him to see this i guess