The whole catalogue, on a single page.

The four core publication series we index in full are: the Matruh governorate tourism office monthly Arabic-language bulletins from 2011 onward; the Commonwealth War Graves Commission El Alamein cemetery reports; the National Egyptian Museum branch small-museum publications; and the published proceedings of the annual Alexandria Family Travel Fair. Outside these we index any peer-reviewed publication that names one of our covered locations; the index has approximately 720 entries at the date of this page.

What we deliberately do not include: travel-blog posts, content-marketing pages from beach clubs, unsourced compilations, and online encyclopedias that themselves cite none of the above. The point of an academic-grade index is that everything in it can be verified at the holding library; including unverifiable material would defeat the purpose. We do include the popular Egyptian-Arabic monthly Manaratuna for the period it was in print (2012–2019) because its family-travel coverage of the coast was contemporaneous.

The most-used part of the index is the El Alamein concordance, which maps every published reference to a specific casualty memorial or grave against its current location at the relevant cemetery. The concordance has 1,840 individual-grave records cross-referenced against the published military histories. Subscribers planning a family visit to find an ancestor's grave use this resource frequently; we run an average of 38 lookups per year on the desk's behalf through this index. Library and Field subscribers can request a consolidated PDF report.

A second important section of the bibliography is the Siwa Oasis literature, where the academic record is genuinely small but high-quality. We index the published anthropological work on the Siwan Berber community (the standard references by Fakhry, Vivian and Belgrave), the recent UNESCO heritage-status documentation, and the small Italian-academic literature from the 1930s that remains relevant for the temple of the Oracle. For family-relevant practicalities we draw on the South Sinai Nature Conservation Sector publications and the Siwa House Museum's own slim bilingual handbook.

The third recurring use of the bibliography is the Mediterranean coast beach safety literature — water quality, jellyfish-season patterns, rip-current frequency at specific named beaches. This is genuinely useful for families and almost completely missing from English-language guidebook coverage. The desk works closely with Dr. Riham Salama on the contributor bench to keep this section current, drawing on the Alexandria Marine Sciences Faculty's annual coastal-monitoring reports and the Matruh governorate beach-cleanliness audits.

Subscribers at the Library and Field tiers can request a consolidated PDF of any concordance subset, delivered within two working days; Reader-tier subscribers can request individual entries on a one-off basis through the desk at no charge. The cumulative count of fulfilled requests since the system was introduced in 2018 is 147, including 22 in the current calendar year. The bibliographic system is, in our subscribers' own words, the single thing the desk does that nobody else in the Mediterranean-coast family-travel space does — and the reason most people who subscribe stay past the first month.