Egypt

  Just two months shy of Iraq’s national elections in March, an apparent bombshell of a development hit the country. The country’s Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC), as per the…

  E: The Souks Project is a quite misleading name. What is exactly meant by the term? Contrary to what many people think, the Souks Project does not refer to…

Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo last month provoked mixed reviews. Some said the US president spent too much time apologizing for American behavior in the Middle East; others said his…

Egypt has seen scores of human cases of bird flu, the largest number in any country outside Asia, since the first known appearance of the H5N1 virus in humans more…

The setting up of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the mid-1990s was supposed to have put the world economy on the path to multilateral trade liberalization. Yet, bilateral and…

Egypt is now in its second economic renaissance, which started in 2004. This follows a first renaissance that was shallow and short lived, lasting from 1992 to 1999, and based…

The theme of this year’s World Economic Forum – Middle East, which just ended in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, was “Learning from the Future.” Prominent business…

Last June I left Egypt after eight years as CNN’s Cairobureau chief and correspondent. I wrote this back then, butnever finished it as I was buried under an avalanche ofpacking…

Egypt’s banking sector is set to become hotly competitive in 2007. Strong international and regional banks that have entered the market in the past two years are aggressively hunting for…

In a deal considered to be the largest divestment of Egyptian state assets to date, the government in Cairo last month completed the sale of Bank of Alexandria (BOA) –…