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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Before joining Rough Guides, Dan Richardsonworked as a sailor on the Red Sea and lived in Peru. Since then, he hasauthored or co-authored guides to Moscow, St Petersburg, Hungary, Budapest,Romania, Bulgaria and Egypt, lectured at the Foreign Office and been avolunteer aid worker in Albania. He is also the author of Gog an End Time Mystery, an apocalyptic whodunit set innear-future Egypt, and has been a special-effects actor since 2010.
Acknowledgements
Dan Richardson Thanks to Saber in Cairo; Hussein Faragin Minya; Ramadan Ali and Mohammed Abdel Hamid in Assyut; Ahmed Zakaria inSohag; Abdel Hagg Ibrahim, Hamada and Karin El-Khalifa, Aladin Al-Sahaby andHassan in Luxor; Mahmoud Yussef and Mohsen Abdel Monaem in Kharga Oasis; TalatMulah and Peter Wirth in Bahariya Oasis; Mahdi Hweiti in Siwa Oasis; and ZahraAdel Awad and all the staff of the tourist office in Alexandria. In London,thanks to Gavin Thomas for his incisive editing and forbearance of misseddeadlines.
Daniel Jacobs Big thanks to Hisham Youssef (Berlin Hotel), Salah Mohammed (SAMO Tours), Hamdi Shora,Caroline Evanoff, Abdul Al Sharawy and Mohamed Saied.
Shafik Meghji Thanks to all the locals and travellerswho helped out along the way. A special shokran mustgo to Dan Richardson and Daniel Jacobs for their advice and support; GavinThomas for his excellent editing skills; Pru and David at On The Go Tours; RosieHegarty; Andy Turner; Jessica Jacobs; Tanis Newman; Hany George; Jean, Nizar andNina Meghji; and Sioned Jones, for all her love and support.
Readers letters
Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with commentsand suggestions (and apologies if weve inadvertently omitted or misspeltanyones name):
Thanks to all the readers who have taken the time to write in with commentsand suggestions (and apologies if weve inadvertently omitted or misspeltanyones name): Ahmed Abed; Wael Abed; Omar Ahmed; Zahraa Adel Awad; S.D.Baylis; Jan Bennell; John Houston; Mahdi Hweiti; Marlene LeGates; Paul Sussman;Wendy Tyson; Chris Wood.