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Submitted by becreative (United Kingdom), Jun 29, 2009 at 04:38

Hi sam, having been through the orfi recently and had everything tranlated so i knew exactly what was stipulated on the paper - it is still a grey area. Isis did a piece on the orfi if you can find the blog a while ago which explains it in more detail..However, i found that I was infact asked for the paper on a couple of occassions, especially in luxor if travelling from east to west bank as the tourist police are at check points. Also when we went for a coffee in a hotel we had to show the paper and my husband had to leave his id card at the entrance until we left. So its up to you really, im not a lover of the orfi as it implicates a licence for sex to most, and frowned upon, and really we should not be judged by what the egyptian and islamic rules dictate., and one rule actually contradicts the other.. There is a piece i read recently on a christian boy who wanted to marry a muslim girl - who changed her faith to be with him which is not allowed under islamic law and the families persecuted them and the police are still after them. This is another side of the coin. Quite sad. please do some research as i read everything i could. The other alternative would be to have a licenced tour guide with you if in a public place., good luck

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