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Reach the editorial office in El-Tor directly.

A real person reads every message that comes through this page. Most enquiries are answered inside one Egyptian working day. The form below is the fastest route; the postal address, phone, and direct email are listed underneath for the cases where the form does not suit.

How to reach us

Four channels, listed by how quickly we reply.

Email and the contact form have the same reply window. Phone is answered during office hours by Salem Abou-Saif, who runs the desk on a rotating week. Postal mail is opened on Saturdays.

  • Email. [email protected] — replied to inside one working day, in English, Arabic or Greek.
  • Phone. +20 69 3771 408 — Saturday to Thursday, 09:00–16:30 Cairo time (UTC+2). Closed Friday.
  • Post. Tih Press L.L.C., 52 El-Bahr Street, El-Tor 46612, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt. Mail opened on Saturdays.
  • In person. Office visits by appointment; the building is a working office on the El-Bahr seafront with no public reception. Email first.

Send a message

Tell us what you need. If your question matches one of the topics below, the message is routed straight to the responsible editor.

Before you write

Four short answers that save a round of email.

A significant share of the enquiries we receive fall under one of these four topics. If yours does, the short answer below may already cover it.

Will you arrange the trip — book the camp, the operator, the transfers?
No, we do not handle bookings at any tier. We can recommend Bedouin operators from the verified shortlist on the relevant file; you contact them directly. The same applies to dive centres, monastery accommodation, and ground transfers. We earn nothing on a booking made through anyone we recommend.
Can you arrange access to the St Catherine monastic library?
We do not arrange access — the librarian does that. What we offer is Service C, the application-support package, which drafts and proof-reads your application in the format the library actually expects. We do not guarantee acceptance; only that your application will meet the standard required.
Can I reuse text or images from the public files?
Short factual reuse with a clear citation is fine. Wholesale reuse of a page, or any use of photographs taken by the editors, requires a written licence from the desk. Educational use under a stated programme licence is granted at no charge; commercial reuse is quoted case by case.
Do you accept guest contributions?
Yes, by invitation. The two-person contributor bench rotates on a two-year cycle, and new contributors are usually identified after a published academic piece on a Sinai topic catches an editor's eye. Unsolicited pitches are read but seldom commissioned; the editorial budget for speculative work is limited.
Where the office sits

52 El-Bahr Street is on the seafront, 350 metres south of the El-Tor port.

El-Bahr is the modern seafront road along the western shore of the Sinai peninsula in El-Tor town. The office is a converted 1980s townhouse on the second floor; the ground floor is the offices of a Red Sea shipping agent. There is no public reception. Visitors arrive by appointment and call the office line on arrival.

From Cairo by road the drive to El-Tor takes approximately six hours via the Ahmed Hamdi Tunnel and the western Sinai coastal road. From Sharm El-Sheikh by road, two hours north. From Dahab, three hours via St Catherine on the interior route or three and a half hours via the coast. The nearest commercial airport is Sharm El-Sheikh International (SSH) approximately 130 kilometres south; the El-Tor local airport handles charter flights only.

For visitors combining the office visit with a Sinai file location, the most common pairing is the El-Tor desk in the morning followed by St Catherine in the afternoon — the interior road from El-Tor to St Catherine takes two hours and the monastery's afternoon hours run to 12:00, so the practical version is a one-night stay at the monastery guest house. The file lists the relevant logistics.