My tribute to Egypt – first photo story – welcome to Egyptian Greece

I apologize for taking a longer break from my blogging. I was following up the situation in Egypt very closely but to be honest I did not feel like to write another politically focused article or analysis. I have read so many of them from different sources, different perspectives in past few months and I think enough is enough.

Instead I decided that I will show you how beautiful Egypt is thanks to amazing people who live there. I know you might have another picture in your head from the news full of violence but please bear in mind those are only chosen frames which do not portray the whole country and people.

Therefore this is my first photo story about the place I like, more will follow.

This is my thanks to all Egyptians who make their country so great.

This is my tribute to all who died innocently in the fights for better future. Rest in peace.

I hope there will not be needed to spill more blood!

Welcome to Egyptian Greece

Thanks to my friends, they know who I mean; I visited a “secret” place near Cairo. Why I call it a secret place? Well, it does not have any website, it does not need any promotion, you have to be invited to come or you have to arrive with a person who is well-known there but surely it does an amazing job not only in women education… I personally call the place my Egyptian Greece.

I think it is very easy to understand why:

Egyptian Greece

Not only that this place looks very nice and cozy but people are very friendly here. They  welcome you with a big smile and when they find out it is your first visit, they show you everything.

This place is self-sufficient with almost everything, starting with food, ending with medicine. Everything is produced ecologically (I think I ate the best raisins from here in my life!).

I must say that lunch we were invited to was very tasty and the environment breezy and sunny:

After lunch we looked around and saw famous herbal laboratory; they prepare different kinds of tea,  soaps, medicines, shampoos, anti-mosquito sprays… anything you can think of.

You might say, well, there are many places like this, but let me continue, you can relax with a nice book:

on the balcony with an amazing view:

And if you like you can meditate in a special meditation room:

For some people this would be enough for a nice relaxing week or weekend but what about some education? There are many meeting rooms and many educational workshops going on here.  They focus mostly on education on women and men regarding the human rights. Some of the locals are even enrolled in a bachelor program in human rights in cooperation with one of the french universities – of course it is taking place here.

For people who want, there is also the place of worship:

But it is not required to come here, you can rest soundly in your house:

And the cost? It depends on you, you can stay as long as you want; you will have a place to stay in one of the little houses – you saw its bedroom above; food to eat – you can come to joint breakfast, lunch, dinner; you can swim, relax and meditate as you wish; and the cost depends on you. I am not joking: you put as much money as you think is adequate or as much as you can afford in a cash box before you leave. Nobody controls how much you put, it is entirely up to you.

And how was this place founded? Behind all of this is a dream of one person, this man was born in a poor family but he was thought to share. He  never forgot and made from it his dream; he created this place with help of others who believed in his dream  All this because they believed in his dream.

So never stop dreaming and make your dreams come true!

Amazing women against narrow-minded men

Egyptian Salafi preacher Ahmad Mahmoud Abdullah, known as “Abu Islam”said:

“They tell you women are a red line. They tell you that naked women — who are going to Tahrir Square because they want to be raped — are a red line! And they ask Mursi and the Brotherhood to leave power!”

“These women activists are going to Tahrir Square not to protest but to be sexually abused because they had wanted to be raped.”

“They have no shame, no fear and not even feminism.”“And by the way, 90 percent of them are crusaders and the remaining 10 percent are widows who have no one to control them. You see women talking like monsters.”

Unfortunately, we do not have to come to Egypt to hear narrow-minded (I don’t know how better express myself not to use for example the MF word) men to speak non-senses about women. It reminds me of US Congressman Todd Akin’s opinion that raped women can’t get pregnant because

“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.”