Your Egypt

[Monica]

Firstly a big thank YOU for all your nice latest threads BOSS...lookin' good man!!!
Wonderful to see your name around your home!!! :lol:

Secondly..this is YOUR Interview ya Raymon...ya originator of youregypt.com...

Thirdly...have I ever told you this forum was a brilliant idea??? well it is!!

Thanks for providing it for us, and making it possible for all these beautiful people here to exchange views, and a few fights :twisted: , and a lot of great information about Egypt, and the Egyptian culture...wa ba3ad ( and then)..

YE people...raymon is under the spotlight...this is your opportunity to grill him if you wish!! :twisted:

My questions:

1-When did you first think of opening an Egypt related website and forum and why?
2-Are you married or single?
3- Would you put your picture as an avatar?
4- What is your ideal woman like?
5- Are you a reader?
6- How many languages do you speak?
7- What is your favourite food?
8- Do you plan on coming to North America to visit one day?
9- What are your views regarding the latest events in Iraq?
10- If you were elected President of Egypt...what would you FIRST do after the celebration party with all the YE members..he he ???

[Claire]

Monica has asked some of the questions I was going to ask. I know very little about Raymon so I will be pleased to know more about the boss of YE.

1. What colour hair do you have?
2. Do you have facial hair?
3. How tall are you?
4. What is your weight?
5. What is your ideal night out or in?

Sounds like a real chat up I know. LOL :lol:

[Alisa]

Good questions, Monica.

hmmm, great thing YE is! I think I would et fired if I asked my boos Claire's questions, but hey we are blessed with YE. :lol: It si all fun though.

Ray, if it is not a matter of professional confidentiality, tell us your most memorable journalism assignment/ interview taken? tell us the story and why it was memorable for you.

Where did you study to become a journalist?

What is your favorite place in the world and why?

What is the decision you have taken in life you had no regrets about?

[raymon]

Thanks Monica for you sweet words … actually thank you for being here in Youregypt … you are actually one of the main reason it is successful … it is not a compliment; it is a fact. And thanks for all YE members who contributed to such success.

Here you go the answers … hehehe: it was indeed grilling.

1- Youregypt:
The first time I thought about creating an Egypt-related site was about 5 years ago, and that was the time I started creating this website (Yes: it took me 4 years). Back then, forums was not that much spread. But as I compile the site together last year, doing the design and the structure, the idea of a forum jumped into my mind … because a successful site means a user-interactive one.
I thought: ok I got some computer talents, tourism experience and a job that has benefited me: Why don’t I do something positive … not just aimlessly browsing the net, and only being a recipient of information … we all browse the net, but how many of us put his footstep.
The idea of youregypt was to present a package … package of everything … language, knowledge, history, landmarks, culture … etc, unlike many other Egyptian sites that usually focus on history or other Egyptian aspects. The idea was to educate about Egypt, its culture and heritage … and to stay as much as possible away from politics … that is why the monthly issues have this socio-cultural taste …

2- Managed to be single till now … no guarantees for the future. Do you have a bride for me :)

3- Nop … I wouldn’t do it :twisted:

4- My ideal woman: a woman that knows how to love .. simple.. right? … or so it might seem!

5- Reading: yea, sometimes when I have time. Actually it is much reading that shaped my current character.

6- Beside my mother tongue and English, I believe I can communicate in Italian, and have little knowledge of French, though it is rusted now … currently weighing some Rom language … and I hope, just hope, to learn an Indo-European language.

7- My favorite food: mmm … shrimps.

8- Yep … hopefully next year… I plan to visit two-thirds the countries of North America .. hehehe

9- Latest events in Iraq: You don’t want to open that topic, do you? OK:
Iraq will eventually be stabilized … but until then, how many people have to die?

10- Hehe: you have a modest aspiration: I will do more: I will make its YE members form my first cabinet. Don’t worry: I will make you my Prime Minister :)

[raymon]

Claire, you have a modeling job for me? :lol:

1. Not expert on colors: But I think it is dark brown.
2. Currently yes … 3mm long beard.
3. May be 175 cm - Taller than an average Japanese height, and shorter than an average Scandinavian
4. May be 85 Kgs ... 3 times the weight of my dog :)
5. Ideal night out: Slow sailing felucca in the Nile.


CHOCOLATE Eclaire wrote: Monica has asked some of the questions I was going to ask. I know very little about Raymon so I will be pleased to know more about the boss of YE.

1. What colour hair do you have?
2. Do you have facial hair?
3. How tall are you?
4. What is your weight?
5. What is your ideal night out or in?

Sounds like a real chat up I know. LOL :lol:

[raymon]

Alisa …don’t worry I am so democratic … (as long as Claire is getting me this modeling job :lol:)

Here you go:
* Not … I did not study to become a journalist … I entered the field by coincidence.

* The most memorable job … it is awful, but bear with me … [YE members: you don’t have to read this part if you don’t like sad stories]:
A visit to mass grave in Iraq … I will never ever forget such scene of thousands of bodies/skeletons buried in their full clothes … and family come searching for their loved ones, moving away skulls and skeletons, matching wallets, clothes or even a watch … and a scene of a poor villager trying to prove to me that under the sand I stand there is a corpse of a victim, then he digs to get me a shirt of a man full of bones … Sad news: it is not the end of the story … no body is helping those families recognize their missing loved ones … and till now there are some who would clap their hands for the perpetrators.

* Favorite place in the world: Nothing specific: But If I would think, I think in a countryside lake-view old house with a balcony … with much green space around.

* The decision I made and have no regrets about: many, but the biggest decision was to come back to Egypt in a time good enough to see my grandmother, with whom I was very much attached, before she passes away.

Alisa wrote: Good questions, Monica.

hmmm, great thing YE is! I think I would et fired if I asked my boos Claire's questions, but hey we are blessed with YE. :lol: It si all fun though.

Ray, if it is not a matter of professional confidentiality, tell us your most memorable journalism assignment/ interview taken? tell us the story and why it was memorable for you.

Where did you study to become a journalist?

What is your favorite place in the world and why?

What is the decision you have taken in life you had no regrets about?

[Alisa]

Wow, Raymon. This is interesting. Seeing mass graves in Iraq...Touching story about your grandmother. It is a indeed a decision not to regret about.

A few more questions:

Career:

What do you want to achieve in your career?
You mentioned you chose journalism "by conicidence". what is that "coincidence"? Can you explain to us?
What makes you happy in your work?

Personal Stuff

What are your priorities in life?
What is "love" to you?

[raymon]

(sorry for long time ... no answer)

Replying on Alisa's questions:

What I want to achieve in my career?
Write a book, but I wish my first to be on my country.

How did I enter the reporting field?
I was just graduated ... and was unemployed for a while. So because of the absence of some employee for some time, and recommended by someone, took that job temporarily, as a translator and assistant. When that woman left the job, I succeeded her. I never planned that career, as I am a tourism studies graduate. I meant to be a tour guide or tour operator ... etc.

What makes me happy in my work?
When I achieve something very few can achieve.

Priorities in life:
My priorities in life: Success, faithfulness and truth.

Love to me: Faithfulness, support and satisfaction. It is so important, because when we are young, we are wild in our love feelings, but when we grow older, the love that we need is translated into those meanings.

[Monica]

and how come sayebny lewahdy these days?? translation: you left me alone these days!! where are you??

[Claire]

Yes Monmon. Why are you alone these days. Where is Raymon, Jag and Banana?

[Monica]

ray said he will show up soon too much work..jag broke a leg.. :cry: banana said he was over worked too.. I am soon going to be overworked so YOU have to be around...!!

Claire wrote: Yes Monmon. Why are you alone these days. Where is Raymon, Jag and Banana?

[Claire]

Broken leg - thought it was just a fractured ankle. The plaster has already been on a week - so just one more week to go.

[Monica]

he he..rumours again...I heard it was a broken leg!! :wink:
Claire wrote: Broken leg - thought it was just a fractured ankle. The plaster has already been on a week - so just one more week to go.

[Claire]

Bet his right leg is hurting too with all the hopping around. LOL

[Alisa]

Ray,

We all know you have been traveling for work to so many places for quite some time. Tell us

1. what places you went to
2. what type of articles you wrote
3. lessons/things you have learned as a journalist for your future assignments
4. lessons you have learned as a human being you will take with you in your personal life
5. what is the most beautiful thing you have seen during your travel?