Click to hear Mahmoud (7mins 58 secs)
I got to know Egypt’s Red Sea Coast long before the resort of Sharm El Sheikh became famous for its association with the former President of Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak.
My daughter married an Egyptian and settled in the small resort of Dahab, 30 kilometres from the Israeli port of Eilat. During several visits I got to know Mahmoud, the local itinerant paper seller and spent an exciting morning visiting the many camps for visitors to be found there.
Exciting? We were bothered twice by the police, who wanted to know what we were doing there. And there was a further complication which you will hear about in the recording.
In spite of this, it won the BATRC Golden Microphone Award in 2001.
