Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna's environmental project is constantly being updated with new species of birds that are spotted here. Three new species were added this week:   Whimbrel Common Kingfisher Grey Plover https://rotary-redsea-elgouna.jimdofree.com/birds-of-the-red-sea/ Working with NGO Red Sea Projects, the project is being translated into different languages to attract bird watching tourists and raise awareness of the incredible bird life that is either breeding here or visiting during the migration. Arabic:  https://www.redsea-project.com/post/birds-of-the-red-sea-arabic Italian:  https://www.redsea-project.com/post/uccelli-del-mar-rosso German:  https://www.redsea-project.com/post/die-v%C3%B6gel-des-roten-meeres French:  https://www.redsea-project.com/post/les-oiseaux-de-mer-rouge 300 White storks passed over the town on 22nd August 2020. You can watch a short video of the spectacle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubilGUmMvyI Georgina Cole Environmental Sustain

  Update on Winter Semester 2020/21 © TUBEG Along with most major universities around the world, TU Berlin will be conducting the upcoming winter semester virtually, in order to ensure safety and health of students and staff during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This decision includes the master programs offered at TU Berlin Campus El Gouna. The experience of the digital summer semester has been an enriching and productive one for students and lecturers alike. It has shown that a virtual study program can be implemented to a good academic standard and online study will continue for students in the second year of their master’s degrees. Our experiences have also shown that a digital semester presents a major challenge, particularly for first-year students. The applied, practice-oriented and interactive qualities of the study programs at Campus El Gouna as well as its highly international character cannot be adequately represented in an online first semester. In order to maintain the hig

ROTARY CLUB OF RED SEA – EL GOUNA ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT BIRDS OF THE RED SEA Rotary Club of Red Sea – El Gouna has created a guide for Birdwatchers in the Red Sea Governorate. The photographic guide includes around 80 species of birds that were photographed within the past year in El Gouna. Each photograph contains a link to the species on the  eBird.org  database with further information.   According to the Egyptian Ornithology Rarities Committee, a total of 466 species of birds have been recorded in Egypt, two-thirds are migrants, and one-third breeding here.    Birdwatching tourism is a growing niche market. Rotary’s goal is to raise awareness of the variety of species in the Red Sea to encourage more local birdwatchers and visitors from abroad.    The migration has begun early this year with storks already passing over the Red Sea on their journey south. Rotary’s guide will be continually updated as new species are spotted here.   A PDF bird ID card is available at the end of the R

by Ali Hazzah Have you ever walked by the Alam Writing shop behind El Gouna’s Abu Tig marina?  Those striped arches are a Mamluk-era throwback motif. This is how things often are in Egypt, where the past is always residually present, even if only in a seemingly insignificant architectural detail at a Red Sea resort. Classic Islamic geometric design patterns – which can be used as ornamental motifs both outside and inside buildings such as mosques, madrassas, museums and palaces – are one of the Arab world’s many outstanding contributions to art and advanced mathematics during Islam’s golden age.   For instance, one can find in Cairo and Alexandria many important historical mosques adorned with magnificent examples of Islamic geometric patterns, an art form whose creative influence has been vast, profound, and global.  Historically, the techniques used to produce these patterns were often trade secrets, though today books by Eric Broug and a few others demonstrate how to reproduce them