العدد (605) - اصدار (4-2009)

Siwa... the Sacred Oasis Ashraf Abul-Yazid

After arriving in Cairo, moving to Alexandria and getting ready to travel to Siwa oasis in the heart of Egypt's western desert near the Libyan border, I put pictures, books and maps aside and studied the satellite image of the 600-km road from Alexandria. The Google website made me come nearer to the outlying oasis, to my great astonishment. That dark green spot, like a tame bird, lies on a golden nest called the great sea of sand. It also amazingly stands west of Qatarra Depression, which looks like a huge hole hollowed out in the heart of the desert by a giant hand