About This Website
There is a wealth of first-hand information/expertise --by mostly natives-- in the Community of Travelers of SaharaSafaris on the Middle-East that is rarely found anywhere else on the Web. Designed to publish this knowledge, this website is offering a publishing platform for Articles and Galleries for the World and the Community to benefit from while keeping work-in-progress to the Community. (Note: filling out a Profile is required for subscription and see Contributions Guidelines)
Guidelines to Authors
Few Guidelines apply as follows:
- Themes have to be useful to the Travelers in the Middle-east: localised to the best of the efforts of the Authors.
- No copying from other sources: summaries accepted, but compiled from different sources are the best, written in your own words and based on your informants opinions. Mention of some of the important sources is necessary.
There are only 3 main types of Contents that are encouraged on SaharaSafaris.org at this stage:
Discovering Siwa
Siwa is an oasis lying to the West of the Nile Valley. It is with very strong historical and cultural ties to the Nile Valley to the extent that Alexander the Great may have had it as the first thing he visits in Egypt upon Conquering it.
Ahmed Hassanein
Ahmed Pasha Hassanein (1889-1946) (Arabic: أحمد باشا حسنين) or Aḥmad Moḥammad Makhlūf Ḥasanēn al-Būlākī (Arabic: أحمد محمد مخلوف حسنين البولاقى). One of the most influential figures in Egyptian politics between the 2 World Wars as the