Ten Cities Project breathes new life into Cairo electronic music scene
Three bands jam together in Cairo and produced some earth-shattering electronic beats.
Egypt: Re-thinking political parties
There are specific signs that differentiate political revolutions from social ones. Both types and patterns of revolution do entail a series of changes and transformations although on different levels. Social…
Egypt: Too big to bail!
An interesting assumption is continuously being adopted by many of Egypt’s intelligentsia as well as political analysts: “Egypt is too big to fail!” Several people have weaved their own theories…
Muslim Brotherhood decay: the logic of imperative Laxity
By Hesham Shafick On 10 May 2011, I interviewed Khairat El-Shater, the Muslim Brotherhood’s third man at the time, and asked about the rumors around Mohamed Habib’s, the MB’s second…
Egyptian foreign debt increases by $8bn
Internal debts hit an alarming EGP 1.4tn, equivalent to about $200bn.
Egypt: International banks eyeing long-term growth
Egypt’s market is also attracting attention from Gulf banks
Digitised database will exclude 1.5 million from receiving subsidies: Ouda
Minister of Supply and Internal Trade expects 1.5 million citizens to be excluded from receiving subsidies after overhaul of statistics database system
Morsi: No more wheat imports within four years
Morsi pointed that the primary goal is to stop importing wheat in four years.
Dearth of consumer confidence in first quarter
Experts attributed lack of confidence to insecurity, expensive living and political uncertainty