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a past ones share? and what do today's distinct cultures have in common? journalists, xena, mosse rock, and joe power. abdul karim, travel the coast of the mediterranean, in search of answers to what do you see yourself as a tunisian junior? used to go the wrangling responsibilities. how can you afford to see these animals? god help you join us to get to know the people and their dreams, the mediterranean, jeremy, the come to egypt, the land of the pharaohs. the north african nation has around 700 kilometers of mediterranean coast. i don't know if that recall mon only dounia. that arabic

phrase, main hi said the mother of the world. i love it because that's what lots of people in the arabic speaking world called egypt, feed upon in many associate egypt with the pyramids meat. but there is another side on under his active the mediterranean, via visit today we're in northern egypt about to take an exciting journey along the coast. christina smith, sash by noon egypt is considered the cradle of civilization. the pyramids of visa are among the oldest buildings in the world. they lie just a few kilometers from the capital, cairo, and the nile, the life blood of the country flows into the mediterranean sea. egypt connects north africa with the middle east to the country is home to over 100000000 people. my journey begins in the 2nd largest city alexandria. it's major library,

the video taker alexandrovna which opened in 2002 is right here on the prominent it's not my 1st visit. and once again, i'm struck by how much egyptian society is characterized by start contrasts. oh, very conservative values collide with modernity. i wonder what impact those differences have on dating and finding a partner. shakima ali founded the muslim dating away a woman in egypt or in the middle east. it's difficult for hair to like have dates, like in what happens in the west western countries. so that's what, why when we sort of fag crating amal by litigation, that helped a young muslim women and men find their life partner. shy my and our colleagues, your scientific methods and psychological testing to find the right partner for

every one of us, not a household, but the most important thing is how the app is structured. it has to be modern without conflicting with religious and cultural values. the social consensus is that women should marry young and have lots of children that i didn't get the idea and for good i got to the only day came to me and the other found is because we have these experiences. highway away people told me the way my mother's friends put her into psychological pression. if you think she would come to me and say, he thought old. but ever since i was 24, i've been under that psychological pressure even though i work and unsuccessful. and i have lots of hobbies and i travel one, but none of that is recognized by egyptian families. they see marriage is the so indicator if a girl success and i guess, you know, i have been been scenarios that goes through mode, walk all the, the dentist wise, the focus on islam and then when religion may be no longer play such

a role in marriage, to the edge layer love gold has a lot of it. when it we have the feeling muslims have concerns about getting to know each other through dating of the thought of these days at that the young muslim is want to use something modern with something technically up to date. but at the same time, they don't want something that their parents might say is, ha, ha, ha, much, all they inappropriate all wrong on hot on a wave ovalo the budget. what about relationships outside marriage and pick up the how we know. and the idea with have idea is that it's managed to marriage. so of course we don't tell anyone and use the words that they have to get married within a certain time, but they should understand that to relationship they start through this app is serious. i bought a lot of fresh fish straight from the mediterranean for saw him. it's a hobby for others. a tough way of making a living but

a passion for seafood unites all alexandria. when i tell you i will give the 1st port of call for all manner of specially prepared seafood is the restaurant to fear situated right by the water. has the kitchen is overseen by hedge out mohammed jumper. i lose them as equity. so mark, one of them i can look into, yeah, i just ask you to some of these fish here is so much i remove. are they all from the military moving around alexandria a little from the mediterranean. we don't have any from the red sea. i shall away once that want you melissa summer when it's cold, mu. so every my as wise at special and it tastes very good fried weights and you can also stuff it. you can have it with butter, but it's best friday, although haggling and metal cuz she has to stop. someone told me about something called single in getty or light to make sun gary. i cut open a large fish celine auto from the not often mom and got it. and then let's have

saturday, sunday, and then let's take this one. she almost doesn't get if you can make angry with this to right, buddy. now daughter of course and some squid. i lim, nick if i'm in grid. yeah. and you'll show me how to make it all. am a special feeling. sorry. today's saturday things are busy in the kitchen. i'm getting hungry. the oil and lemon mixture, but they're hiding. the oil and lemon mixture that it. what's of hoya? it's a very alexandrian thing. it's for the fish. we use it for the filling garlic. so larry act deal mustard and spice is negative, but it's not saying, you know, this is son gary. he is our fish. first we spread sold on the baking tray so the fish doesn't stick. we'll take dice the fish all day 11. okay. what about that

with? so we do it like this without hands, oil and lemon. you take around a lemon and that's how you make your fish. diamond went oh my god, i've never cooked anything like this get am? yes. just like that. then i'm the new show. the law by the law. here that's the mussa. i was that the mussa fish we field. oh yeah, i recognize it now. nice to walk the ship to what do most people order here in the a son gary fish. and because the source mixture is really special, you mean one of the best sources we have in alexandria?

ok. the any internationally, i thought what i can a 100 watt and asking that a and we could still drilling. we can prepare anything that comes out of the seal, come out of me and not a full noun left. until the 1950s, greek, italian, french, and british migrants lived and worked in alexandria to day. the port city with a population of around 5000000 has some major social problems like poverty and the housing shortage. in 2019 and egyptians average monthly income was around 235 euros domino. the i limit the agenda june apprenticeship study. i only went to school only till grade 9. then at that 8th grade, why? i didn't finish school. education doesn't feed you learning a trade or a job pays more. my father died when i was 6. there was no one to look after mesa vallejo. i think a long have you been working. i am 29. them

a bit less. what age did you start at 14. out of us 1490. what a? yes. i'm leaving alexandria and heading out i sell bought just under 3 hours away by car it situated on both the mediterranean sea and the nile delta. it for thousands of years. the river has been egypt, lifeline. phineas here in arrested. i now hearing that i sent some ship, it was an arabic at means head of the tongue. when behold, it's called that because behind me, the longest river in the world, the nile flows into the mediterranean, couldn't detect in mid to the mail and us. so here it was. people here find that really special gospels on this is, does he have another special thing about tommy at a province here, is that it has the country's 1st female christian governor. and i'm going to meet her person who just a few kilometers further down the nile. delta is the city of damita. it's

a thriving port in the capital of damita province. mm hm. in 2018. dr. manion, a lot me shy, is became the 1st coptic christian to head of provincial government in egypt. and she's only the 2nd woman ever to govern. one of the countries 27 provinces. hello, to live in mid to get him and bennett would let them get a lot of the honey hunter is moving towards the empowerment of women. young denials has them. the i'm very interested in women being financially socially and culturally strong. and it's one of the most imposing prerequisites for a modern country. what i had the most, most, the custodian in predominantly muslim egypt in estimated 10 percent of the population are christian. most of them coptic christians, minot a, what me show you, who was a christian herself,

is heavily protected by security guards with radical islamists have repeatedly attacked institutions like churches. and schools. and christians also faced the discrimination here. blaze of the lamb out of the show. i mean, what does this experience mean for you? but mostly because you represent egypt, but also are religious minority met in, even if christians in the country don't like to see themselves so minority at the end of the day. there are far fewer of you than there are muslims double yet at the bottom of in his belly. and i was very pleased. i took it as a sign that egypt has changed, that people don't get advantages because of their background. when a instead, positions are allocated to candidates because if they see to bill as he for the job, give it a non than edward to the school, we now have a constitution that protects the rights of christians, if he, mo, at dixie. they're out of all laws that protect the rights of women and christians, and also those of other religions. understood, unbelievable. hague. was he all the law states this?

but the reality is different. newman, cana is bought of you, for example. the law may encourage the restoration of churches alone is what the social mood is different. and joly modeled a lot of your football. kellum dot net, yes. all 15 good. then had the lo fi, there might be a few troublemakers in some villages, way of bothered coral machine let. let me that can be the case on any time it can only when it debatable will be labilly. but there is, are exactly the examples for and the home will we can teach people accept and respect animal food, the time that in their lives, him to the company could learn the couple of them. coma would kill yona, martin m a backyard musser. some egyptians say that they're happy and aside, egypt is in a phase of positive change that a year with other lahardo yearly, but other se freedoms are being suppressed. come out of political views are being suppressed. i c, a, c, and there are political prisoners. martha ali and what kind of egypt do you see to day and thank buckled at me only says he has a samsung bucket. i wanted movies, damage to the they are assembly times when certain things aren't possible out all by than what couldn't the future. now up to the upheaval and the revolution on it,

it's easy. it is by public opinion and unsettled people. real demonstration. i'm the mother of the country. just can't handle that right now, but it had been an egypt has just experienced and economic collapse often away alfie. eh, la la la la la, i'm in a song. but why can't you have a functioning economy and a change that emotionally lay while you talking about security matches here? i can't comment to mother to live in since the so called arab spring in 2011. many have been fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights. it's been a hard struggle, especially since updated fata i c c became president from damita. i'm traveling to poor said 50 kilometers away. the modern industrial port city lies on the suez canal. completed in 18. 69. the canal connects the mediterranean with the red sea. these days, most vessels that pass through the waterway or container ships from the far east,

or oil tankers from the gulf on the ferry, i meet architect mohammed hassan. he's offered to give me a historical tour of the city with mine, where between 2 continents, living between africa and asia. a 4th wad is on the asian side, or, and poor side on the african side or flawed is the newer city where it wasn't built until 1926. but while force i eat dates from 1859, the city was built for suez canal workers. off was grand mosque isn't the only interesting thing the city has to offer. with colonial architecture was also marketable. the european influence is visible

everywhere. the canal was nationalized in 1956 by egyptian president. gum i ob denise it before that point. what was mainly home to foreigners working for the franco british suez canal company sheila hm had a tell me about what you do gonna you when we run tours to make addictions aware of the history of their country and also for people from abroad. course i eat is not a tourist destination. when you come to egypt, people tell you, go to luxor ra swan, while sharma shake the hob shelby hiero alexandria. no one says force i am site and why is history important? it's the mirror of the future. if you have no history that you have no future, it was felt much of egypt depends on tourism. and po, if one has more to offer than expected so much walking around makes you hungry and something sweet would be the perfect pick me up. we had to

a local bakery. oh, this is delicious. it's very, very, very sweet. there's, but absolutely delicious. i'm going to take some to go in with the name on the navy. and why do people in this region always want their sweets to be really sweet or healthier? with loads of sugar cane like in europe and muscle and there they don't like things to be as sweet as here. hello, the can't handle personally. i like sugar. but what do you think java go of eyes of people want things to be sweet. our lives a hot enough. why shouldn't we at least sweet now food a little before they welcome to glen, or maybe it's because sugar makes you happy when it makes you feel good and yeah, i little bit about sugar are not the main thing is it tastes great. we also bought a little bread to feed the seagulls on the ferry, back to or citing with

us. i don't want to philosophize, but people who live by the sea. don't see any borders in front of them. nobody can control them. but i mean, they always want freedom. the want something better. majority left, man. i'm not saying we're better people know them, but people on the coasts have that feeling. you see, it reflected in the residence of force. i was hoping they hate borders. that rebellious with what are the most of them that's important in egypt right now with. ready coastal cities or gateways to the world where people with different backgrounds and cultures come together. poor saeed is the origin of simps. mia music. traditionally, only men play a stringed instrument. what at the all, how we yacht club. we meet him on huddle and her friends. they found that the 1st

female seems to me, arguing their defying social norms and finding a little freedom through music i ah i'm sure why did you join the group i with finance any i would ask i like music general, but in seconds i like the group instrument oh, you know, it is the most important thing in my life. if you're going to get us to a so when you say hello to me, that's deep enough to know when you sing along with the night brings love to enjoy . it's important. i can come in,

it just makes you happy with the loan and bob and too many, there must be people who say what your girls and hence garvey and other female voices are indecent. yes, we hear it a lot to get out. what's your reaction? michelle didn't kill them in lesson, we don't pay attention to it and they'll say, hey, hold on one second. and that's the last thing they think about. this is our dream. we will make it come true, no matter how hard it is, the law. and i'm going to hang on the head. what do your family say? at least friday the day is that i've been on a sunday. so can we ask you something?

i think whatever, when your daughter said she wanted to sing, what did you say? she likes it, it makes her happy. i don't have jack turned it all. i'm official. i'm always find their side. i'm like a mother to them all and i go everywhere with them down for. but even when they travel and i'm of a some homes with but if one of them didn't where i had the car will be okay to move. i had last. yes, no problem at all. what's most important is how she interact with other people, and that she's decent time with that sort of, gem headscarf question won't come up with me. i'm not going now back to the music. thanks very much. from poor saeed. i'm returning to alexandria where my journey along egypt, mediterranean coast began a few days ago. ah,

whenever i travel, i always read the local newspapers. but according to reporters without borders, press freedom is extremely limited in egypt. the you and hcr says there are more than 250000 refugees living in egypt, many of them from sudan in the hall of the sacred heart church. we meet amina animosity the 22 year old started the one us initiative in 2018. the goal is to empower sudanese children through art and drama workshops and help them integrate into egyptian society. i know he's yes, i know it what? hello. hi. how are you and all of you know that i play, i mean does,

deva can do i think the getting off the data? how have shaddick markham? i'd like to join your workshop. what do i have to do? i can only watch equipment let. so stand up, okay. anyway, but i think we have now a lot of san name in a loud noise and we'll make a movement that says something about ourselves. it doesn't matter. walked in your head, your body jumped, dance, anything? well, stock chairman, i hi, my name is emma, and this is the movement that says something about me, but i me my name is eileen, and this is my me. i'm boss my am, this is my movement. anesthesia i'm java and this is my movement. dia, i'm some of what's the main reason you do the talent on the downtown. and some of the most important reason is the bullying experience spice to denise children and refugee children in general. so it mainly attack sudanese children on the street at

school or in housing estate because a half of the hell am get discriminated against because of their skin color. difference and diversity in society has met with rejection on kiddos that we going to perform a little play for you now. okay. hey, adam beanpole, don't make fun of me being told your height is fine with me. i get your 2 tone a pitcher, but you never find clothes that fatal for yes, it takes a long time to find my size. you probably find yos quite easily. oh, by then galia made fun of adam and then that makes him sand. did you see how adam reacted? like i'm saying mean things to you and you answer back in a friendly way. i can. but i'm making fun of you just and i shouldn't do that. i mean, i saw it was a rather well sent this is how we got. yeah. what are the important

issues for you right now? i don't know if the problem in egypt is people thinking in a right and left black and white. everyone thinks that if someone is different from them, they must be an enemy be confronted. but in reality, diversity makes a strong young head to the yellow. the next morning i leave egypt and its mediterranean coast with mixed feelings. it's a country with a long and great history. what it's present is marked by enormous social and political difficulties. trinity mentioned here. now that i found the people here in egypt incredibly open this about the food was superb or, and it's been wonderful to in the country are satisfied us about at the same time

it was difficult to get to know each of the way i'd hope to talk about that we always had minders with us at the end, getting filming permits was very, very complicated. and switching to shop. sometimes i noticed that people were afraid of expressing their opinion, which makes you realize that the country isn't so free. so high school. mm hm. with with

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