Salma is the latest addition to the family. She was born in 2003.

My maternal granfather is Youssef Mohamed Abou Youssef.

Ancestry

The Abou Youssef Family are originally from North West Africa (Morocco? مغاربة), but settled in Alexandria, Egypt centuries ago. The name Abou in the family name was used by families of Moroccoan origin (e.g. Abou Hussein, ...etc.).

This particular branch of Abou Youssef were from Moharram Bey محرم بك district in Alexandria. Other Abou Youssefs lived in the Anfoushi الأنفوشي district of Alexandria. There is an apocryphal story in the family claiming that they are from a village called Dayrout ديروط near Rosetta رشيد.

Over the millennia, Egypt has developed a unique cuisine that boast dishes and ingredients found no where else. Due to a history of foreign trade with, invasions and donominations by other cultures, Egypt has borrowed lots of food. These are mostly from Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, and other Mediterranean countries. But even those were modified in Egypt to a great extent, making them uniquely Egyptian.

Below, I describe some uniquely Egyptian dishes and their ingredients, then provide links to other sites that include Egyptian Recipes, or concerned with Egyptian Cuisine.

This is Ahmad Omar Baheyeldin, a third generation member of the Baheyeldin dynasty,born 31 October 2001. Son of Omar Baheyeldin and his wife Sawsan El Sammak.Ahmad Baheyeldin, November 2001. Only a few weeks old.Ahmad Baheyeldin November 2001.

I am sort of camera shy, and therefore you will not find a lot of photosof me over the years.

You can also find some 1960s photos from the E.G.C. in a separate web page. Can you identify anyone?

Some of the photos that I take are also available in this Photo Album

Microsoft Windows is not a stable nor a secure Operating System.

Stability

If you want a quick test, then click here to crash Windows!

Security

Several incidents have demonstrated that Microsoft products in general are notbuilt with security in mind. I think that the best explanation for this stemsfrom the single-user/single-computer mentality that MS-DOS started with. Thispropagated to Windows 3.x and then Windows 9x.

Regardless of what the cause is, this leaves us with a system where any program

In Jeddah, you can live in apartments, or you can live in residential compounds(also called complexes, or sometimes: "camps"). Compounds offer a better life style, since there are often recreational facilities (swimming pool, tennis court, playground, shopping bus, school bus, ...etc.)Here is a list of some compounds in Jeddah, some are upmarket executivestyle, and some geared to professionals.

• Arabian Homes
• Mura Bustan
• Sharbatly Village
• Red Sea Housing

I have an extensive photo album that I started in Ontario, Canada in spring 2001. It is available for viewing, and contains many pictures of myself, my kids, scenes from Canada, wildlife, plants, flowers and much more.

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