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The Universities in Egypt

One of our initial visits and first chances to see a glimpse of Egypt was when we visited Cairo University, Misr University, and Helwan University. Cairo University has an absolutely radiant campus, blossoming in tangerine colored flowers that make the campus glow. It is located in Giza, Egypt.

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Wonderful Egypt Study Abroad Course

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7am and the wakeup call is headed toward our room. This day we visited the pyramids and the Sphinx. The pyramids are very close to the city Cairo. There were quite a few tourists but not as many as I expected. Because of this difficult time for Egypt, their tourism is very low right now. But this is...

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Personal Experience with ARAMFO Egypt Travel Course 2012

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Looking back on what my expectations of Egypt were before I went on the trip and reflecting now on my trip the last two weeks they were very different. I expected to see a place like Agrabah from Aladdin (Disney movie) or a very dirty, brown place and expected to be frightened a lot of the time. Whe...

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Kristen Jefferson at Universities in Egypt 2012

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Misr University is a private university in a suburb of Cairo called 6th of October city. The city's namesake commemorates the October 6th war, also known as the Arab-Israeli War. Syria and Egypt launched offensives against Israel on October 6, 1973. An initially successful offensive by Egyptian a...

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Professor Karen Jennison's report on ARAMFO

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This course was offered during the first six week summer session in 2012. Following is a description of various elements of the course. I went to Egypt with the students and therefore am able to report on that portion of the trip from first- hand knowledge. In addition, I attended all the Saturday c...

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