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Making 5,000 years of Egypt make sense — one guide at a time.
I'm Magdy. If you've read a guide on this site — on Bastet, on Egyptian mythology, on month-by-month travel, on the Nile cruise comparisons, on the deep-dives into tombs most visitors never hear about — you've read my work. I've spent 12+ years writing about Egypt, and I still find something new to explain every week.
I was born in Cairo, and my love of Egypt's history is older than my career. I graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Arts with a History degree — the kind of course where you sit in a lecture hall and realise your own country has 5,000 years of continuous civilization you still don't know half of. That feeling has never gone away.
For 12+ years now, I've made my living translating that history for travellers. Not in the tour-group sense — that's Maro's work, and nobody does it better — but on the page. Every guide on this site, every “what to see in Luxor” breakdown, every month-by-month Egypt planner, every mythology explainer has come through me.
I write the way I wish guidebooks still wrote. Specific. Grounded. Happy to name the pharaoh, the dynasty, the year, the hieroglyph — because travellers who come all the way to Egypt deserve more than “the pyramids are old and impressive.” I assume you're curious. I assume you'll read three paragraphs if they're three paragraphs worth reading.
What I don't do is plan your trip. When you're ready to actually book — to sort flights, guides, hotels, boats, dates — that's where my friend and colleague Maro Saeed takes over. He's been doing that for 13 years, and he's who you want. I write the guides. He plans the trips. Between us we try to make sure nobody who picks Egypt comes home thinking they missed the real thing.
If you have a question about something I've written — a fact to correct, a topic you wish I'd cover next, a period of Egyptian history you want to understand before you come — write to me directly. I read every email myself.
If you've searched for Egypt on Google in the last decade, there's a decent chance you've read something of mine. These are the areas I go deepest in.
From Old Kingdom pyramid-builders to the last Ptolemies — I cover every dynasty in depth, with dates and context most travel writing skips.
Bastet, Eye of Ra, the Ankh, the Djed pillar — the symbols you'll see on every temple wall. My mythology deep-dives bring millions of readers to this site because they get the details right.
Comparing itineraries, operators, boat types, embarkation points — I map out what a Nile-cruise traveller actually needs to decide before booking anything.
When to come, when to avoid, what the weather actually does, what the sites feel like in peak versus shoulder. Egypt travel, month by honest month.
Karnak, Valley of the Kings, Abu Simbel, Hatshepsut, Dendera — what you're actually looking at, who built it, why it still matters 3,000 years later.
Islamic Cairo, Coptic Egypt, Bedouin Sinai, Nubian villages — the layers of modern Egypt most fast-tour travellers miss entirely.
Things I find myself saying on every editorial call — written down once, here.
I read a lot of internet travel writing about Egypt. Most of it repeats the same dozen facts — several of them outdated, a few simply wrong. Tutankhamun's tomb was not the biggest find (it was the most intact). The Sphinx's nose was not shot off by Napoleon's soldiers (it was damaged centuries earlier). Small errors, but they tell you the writer never checked. I check.
Egypt has the highest concentration of surviving ancient monuments on earth — and it's still only a fraction of what was built. Karnak, Abu Simbel, the Pyramids are what's left. Alexandria's great library is not. Every time I write about a standing temple I'm aware how much has gone. It makes what remains feel more precious.
The best Egypt guides are written for a curious traveller, not for Google. I try to remember that when a line of mine turns up in a search result, somebody on the other end may be about to fly 5,000 miles based partly on what I wrote. I owe them the truth, the specifics, and the boring bits the headline writers skip.
If your question is about something I've written — a fact, a topic, a source — email me directly. If you're ready to actually book, Maro is your person. He's the one who sorts flights, boats, guides, dates.
Twenty years of writing about Egypt, updated regularly. Every piece below was written and edited by me.
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