Maher Hamoud has spent much of his professional life as a journalist. The bulk of that time was spent working in his home country of Egypt, always deeply rooted in the events on the street even during his tenure as editor-in-chief of this very (...)
By Rasheed Hammouda and Mohamed Ibrahim
This article is the second of a three part series. The aim of this series is to dispel the increasingly widespread belief held by both supporters and detractors of Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi that the circumstances (...)
By Rasheed Hammouda and Mohamed Ibrahim
This article is the first of a three part series. The aim of this series is to dispel the increasingly widespread belief held by both supporters and detractors of Sisi that the circumstances he faces and the (...)
Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the changing economic relationship between western economies and their growing pool of foreign investors. In particular, the European property market was (and is) an indicator of a wider shift leading towards greater (...)
Tenuous alliances and complacency have led to little more than bloodshed and obstruction of what really afflicts Egypt
"I trust that the international community, which has long rejected terrorism, will firmly stand by the Egyptian people in the (...)
Following developments in Egypt over the past couple weeks feels more like reading a dark farce than anything resembling a news report. The death-toll of the violent military crackdown on Pro-Morsi sit-ins has surpassed that of the 2011 (...)
During the hours and days following Morsi's ousting, western pundits, Americans in particular, rushed to condemn the events in varying measure. The overriding sentiment: Egypt had taken an axe to the sapling of democracy that had sprouted hardly a (...)
It's been a rough few weeks for heads-of-state the world over. In America, Obama faces a growing list of infractions, any one of which would have been campaign killers nine months ago. In much of the Europe, administrations continue to struggle to (...)
As the Gulf's major players compete to be crowned the region's finance king, Egypt may end up benefitting from being left out of the race entirely
The race to be MENA's top financial hub has been heating up over the past few years, a race that Cairo (...)