Nile ~ Fraser       

         

 Journal of the Egyptian Canadian Cultural Society Of BC 
(E
CCS-BC)      

      

   .... your home away from home.   

Our New Website
Your Home Away from Home...
 

 
 
Congratulations to you all for our new website.  http://eccsbc.com/beta was meant to meet your expectations and to serve you better. While developing the site, we were keen to maintain the best quality and features as possible without compromising on user-friendliness, so that even those novice users can navigate through it with comfort and with ease. 

Through the website, to become a member of ECCS-BC is not only easy, but it is for free as well!. Membership will be the key connection with the Society to receive important notifications.and quarterly issue of this newsletter, Nile-Fraser, which will contain news and information about new services, upcoming events, articles and interviews with members with success stories to share, announcements of  special occasions, weddings and more.

We expect that eccsbc.com is going to be the hub for all our communications with members and with all those interested in our activities. With your help, it will gradually evolve to being the source for useful information and links for a bundle of services, opportunities and areas of interest a member would need in his day-to-day life. 

Finally, we would like to thank all for their valuable input and feedback, and we do look forward to more suggestions to keep enhancing its  usability and outlook. After all, we are all  committed to making it Your home away from home… Enjoy surfing!

Fady Barsoum
Editor,
ECCS-BC Treasurer & Media Officer


 Issue
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March
2015

 


 

In this issue:

  • ECCS-BC's New Website...P 1
  • Our Photo Gallery...P 2
  • Oum Ali Recipe...P 3
  • Sham El Neseem? P 4
  • December 2014 - March 2015  Timeline.. P 5
  • Sponsors ... P 6
 

 
Coming soon ..
  • Sham El-Neseem Celebration ... April 19
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  • Six Packs Archery Club ... May 23
  •  2015 Summer Picnics ... All summer
  • Kanaka Summer Camp ... July 31

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Our Photo Gallery

http://eccsbc.com/beta/events/events-gallery/
 

 
 
Although relatively small, but our Egyptian community in BC is a true and beautiful representation of the real and colorful Egypt.

Flipping through the photos, one would feel blessed to have such a pleasant community. There are pictures of tempting home-cooked Koshary, children playing, seniors chatting, and smiling women and men from various backgrounds watching over the children, and lending a hand to the elders. There are pictures of our youth playing games and taking selfies. flags of Egypt and Canada side by side in the background.


As estimated by some, the number of those BC residents who are originally from Egypt could be in the range of 5 to 6 thousand,  a number that carries a lot of potential. Canada endorses precious human values and offers a promising future on many levels. In such favorable conditions, all generations in our community  all generations in our community could work together to create an even better future. The seniors would pass down their knowledge to the youth; so the latter extends its heritage. The adults would absorb this country’s spirit by unconsciously learning from our youth who are growing up here. This blissful cycle will help us grow stronger; it will render us useful and valuable citizens in our adopted home. We are the Egyptian Canadians.                                                                                            
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Oum Ali Recipe


  
 


 


Ingredients: (To serve 4) : 4 butter croissants, 4-5 tbsp sugar (adjust to taste), Approx 400-500ml milk, 250ml double cream, A handful toasted Almonds and hazel nuts ( or any combination of nuts you prefer), A handful raisins, 2 tsp vanilla extract & 2 tsp cinnamon  

Method
  • Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and place croissants in an oven dish to toast for 10 mins. 
  • In a sauce pan bring the milk and sugar to the boil and add the vanilla and cinnamon.
  • Break up the toasted croissants, in an oven dish, sprinkle the nuts and raisins on top, add a second layer of croissants. Pour the milk onto the croissants.
  • Place the dish in the oven, heat up the cream in the sauce pan again adding sugar to taste.
  • Pour cream and sprinkle toasted almonds . Return to oven for another 10-15 minutes.
  • Serve warm and enjoy.
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Sham El Neseem .. ?
 

Sham el Nessim may have been celebrated as early as 4,500 years ago. For Egyptians, Sham el Nessim, literally meaning sniffing the breeze, marks the beginning of the spring. It falls immediately on the first Monday following the Coptic Easter.  

The Ancient Egyptians imagined that that day represented the beginning of creation. The feast of 'Shamo,' means 'renewal of life',  which was later changed during the Coptic age to 'shamm' (smelling or breathing), and the word 'nessim' (breeze) was added. It is a national holiday celebrated by all Egyptians, regardless of their religion (Muslims and Christians alike).

As the Ancient Egyptians used to offer salted fish, lettuce, and onions to their deities on this day, traditional food eaten on this day consists mainly of Feseekh (a salted Grey Mullet), lettuce, scallions or green onions, tirmis or Lupini Beans, and colored boiled eggs.

Early in the morning of this day, many persons, break an onion, and smell it; and in the course of the forenoon many ride or walk a little way into the country, or go in boats, to take the air, or, as they term it, smell the air, which on that day they believe to have a wonderfully beneficial effect. The greater number dine in the country, parks or on the river. 









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