How new is Egypt’s ‘new’ foreign policy?
By Barak Barfi CAIRO: In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former adversaries. Egypt’s government has…
Secularism to the rescue of the Arab Spring
By Fadi Hakura Spring has come early this year to the Arab world. Climate change has awakened the once comatose Middle East from the stupor of singular leaderships. A new dawn…
Moving from politics to people in Israel-Palestine
By Ronit Avni WASHINGTON, DC: Responding to the rising tide across the Arab world in his recent speech on May 19, US President Barack Obama aptly directed his focus away from…
Lessons learned and lived
By Sarah Tonsy Upon attending a symposium on “The Non-violent Revolution in Egypt: Learned Lessons,” that took place on June 6-7, 2011 at Cairo University, I learned and realized many things…
Victimhood narratives of Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Huma Yusuf WASHINGTON, DC: There’s a reason they say that people who live in glass houses should not throw stones. Eventually, someone throws a few rocks your way. And you…
US companies launch investment plans in ‘new’ Egypt
CAIRO: American members of the US-Egypt Business Council (USEBC), who are housed at the US Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC and formed voluntarily, reaffirmed their commitment to Egypt during…
Maridive Q1 aided by offshore contracts
CAIRO: Egyptian group Maridive and Oil Services posted a rise in first-quarter revenues and profits, boosted by contracts in countries like Saudi Arabia and India. The company attributed the rises…
OCI plans buyback of 440,000 shares
CAIRO: Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), Egypt's biggest listed firm, said on Thursday it planned to buy back 440,000 treasury shares on the bourse, or their equivalent in global depository receipts…
Bank Audi Egypt launches new CODs
CAIRO: Bank Audi S.A.E. launched new Certificates of Deposit with an interest rate up to 10.3 percent, the bank said in a statement, aiming to encourage investments. “Bank Audi’s CODs…
IFC plans $35 mln in loans for Indian-Egyptian JV factory
CAIRO: The International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, said it will provide up to $35 million in loans toward construction of a new chemical factory near…