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Four to six state-owned companies to be listed in IPOs between June 2018, early 2019

Targeted cumulative value of the listings is EGP 15-18bn

Mohamed Samir

Palestine declares strike, national mourning following bloody embassy unrest   

Amid 70th anniversary of Nakba day, Palestinians bury those killed in embassy…

Fatma Lotfi

GERD technical committee resumes meetings in Addis Ababa

Meeting gathers ministers of foreign affairs, water, intelligence chiefs of Egypt, Sudan,…

Mohammed El-Said

More than 41 Palestinians killed as Israel celebrates new US embassy opening 

Trump’s decision angers Palestinians, Egypt condemns ‘targeting’ protestors    

Fatma Lotfi

Nakba Day and the unquestionable right to return

Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation might go back and forth about…

Amira El-Fekki

Criminal court releases two NSA officers accused of torturing lawyer 

Lawyer summoned to Matareya police in February 2015 on accusations of affiliation…

Fatma Lotfi

Egyptian Parliament approves controversial clinical trials law

Bill opposed since it was first discussed in parliament in 2006

Fatma Lotfi

Op-ed review: Egypt’s economic reform impacts, political future pressurised

As a number of writers continue to comment on the Iranian-Israeli conflict,…

Amira El-Fekki