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I lived, studied and worked in Egypt for some years in the early 1990s. This page contains links to some of the surviving work that stems from that period such as Steel in the Sand (2002), Cairo to the Coast (2004) and a few blog posts from 2013. It is possible I have also amassed the world’s largest private collection of Egyptian Edmonson railway tickets so I’ve added a few links about that too.
I’ve followed the politics, society and media of Egypt since the early 1990s and know Egyptian Arabic too. On my travels I visited almost every town, village and city in the country and still follow this historic nation with great interest. If you would like to know more about aspects of Egypt, please get in touch.
For information about my other work in the Middle East and North Africa region, especially about Arabic and Iraq, please follow the links (below).
My book on the history of modern Egypt and its extensive and historic railway network was originally published in 2002. It is still available as a downloadable PDF priced at £4.95 (text only) and £7.95 (illustrated).
I created Cairo to the Coast as a companion work to Steel in the Sand. Originally this was a 67-minute video covering all aspects of Egypt’s railway network between Cairo, the Nile Delta and the Mediterranean Coast.
During 2013 I created a website to showcase Egyptian Railways (not an official website). As I did so, Egypt went through huge political changes so these blog posts chronicle this aspect of Egyptian life during 6 months of extraordinary stress.
My travels by train in Egypt in the early 1990s were on a railway system little-changed since its creation in the 19th century. I collected nearly 2000 Edmonson tickets from village stations all over Egypt and show a few here.