Women’s gyms lay bare limits of Saudi reforms

A Saudi decision to license within weeks the kingdom’s first women-only gyms constitutes progress in a country in which women’s rights are severely curtailed. It also lays bare the limitations…

James Dorsey

Questioning the rigid application of the Goldwater Rule 

In 1964, the magazine Fact published the article “The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater.” The article included the results of a poll among psychiatrists…

Cesar Chelala

Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development signs “Grenada” renovation contract with Arab Contractors

Sales of Heliopolis Company for Housing and Development decreased by 20-25% since flotation

Mohamed Samir

High-class lands lead price hikes of residential units

NUCA prepares the offering of new lands, square meter prices in New Cairo might reach EGP 6,000

Mohamed Darwish

Decision to relieve expatriates from car customs for a dollar deposit according to car model: immigration minister

The ministry is working on several files in the coming period including insurance, pensions, and subsidies for Egyptian expats

Imad Hamdi

Dabaa prepares to receive nuclear power plant

40% of construction of the nuclear school to be completed in May at cost of EGP 70m

Daily News Egypt

Godfather of Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya dies after 24-year imprisonment 

Omar Abdel Rahman was the theorist of the ultraconservative group, which abandoned militancy in the 1990s to participate in civil society and electoral politics

Adham Youssef

MESC plans to expand in North Africa via Al-Mousa Cables in Egypt

Al-Mousa expects its sales to reach EGP 400m by the end of 2017

Maya Nawar

Reducing price of products depends on stability of US dollar

After the Ministry of Finance reduced the price of the US dollar used for customs to EGP16, down from EGP18.5 on 16 February, media outlets stated that the prices of…

Hisham Salah