People, music and change: The Bin Al-Sarayat conundrum

Those young people enforced their culture on a mainstream taste that I deem decadent, says Wagdy Al-Komy

Mahmoud Mostafa

Notes from America: The accidental hero

By Ahmed Tharwat In his book “Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era”, Joseph Nye of Harvard University divided American presidents into two groups. One is made up…

Daily News Egypt

On Copts, Libya and nationalism

By Wael Eskandar One of the most astounding phenomena following the brutal slaying of 21 Copts, who had been kidnapped since December 2014, is the hyper-nationalistic reactions within Egyptian society.…

Daily News Egypt

Ahmed Ezz expected to be rejected as parliament candidate

Ezz’s assets are freezed; fails to meet candidacy’s legal requirements

Amira El-Fekki

Whose lives matter in current day Egypt?

By Semanur Karaman On 9 February, in response to the deadly police violence that left 40 football fans killed and dozens murdered in Cairo, Shadi Zalat compared the price of…

Daily News Egypt

Ambitious Banque du Caire strategy targets 30% loan product growth: Bank President

Car loans from Banque du Caire is considered the fastest growing bank product in the Egyptian market, Zahid said

Daily News Egypt

United Bank to allow paying taxes, customs through branches

The United Bank will introduce in all branches a service for paying all government dues, such as individual and company taxes and customs, the bank’s chairman Mohamed Ashmawy revealed Thursday.…

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SFD signs EGP 50m agreement with Industrial Development Bank

Director-general of the Social Development Fund (SFD) Soha Soliman has signed two agreements with the Industrial Development Bank to develop small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Egypt. The value of…

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Banque du Caire eyeing Economic Summit projects

State-owned Banque du Caire aims to finance several projects the government will present in the March Economic Summit, said the bank’s Vice-Chairman Mohamed Taha. Taha said his bank has a…

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Work under construction worth $5.6bn until September 2014: OCI Managing Director

We added $900m more to construction works, says Osama Bishai

Mohamed Ayyad