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Articles of the author Sayed Badr Ahmed El Demerdash
NBE: assets surge to 1.1 trillion Egyptian pounds after currency float move
Egypt's biggest lender, the state-owned National Bank of Egypt says assets have surged to around 1.1 trillion Egyptian pounds ($58.5 billion) following Nov.3 flotation of the local currency, an official in the bank announced Wednesday. NBE's Deputy (...)

18 - 01 - 2017
Egypt's NBE: Net profits exceed 6 bln pounds in H1-FY2016/17
Egypt's biggest lender, the state-owned National Bank of Egypt says net profits have exceeded 6 billion Egyptian pounds ($319.2 million) during the first half of the current financial year 2016/2017. NBE's Deputy Chairman, Yehia Aboul Fotouh further (...)

17 - 01 - 2017
Banque Misr, ADIB to sign $150 bln loan in Q1
Egypt's second largest state-owned lender, Banque Misr is planning to sign a loan worth $150 million with Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank-Egypt (ADIB) within the second quarter of financial year 2016/2017. Mohamed El-Etreby, Banque Misr's Chairman, told (...)

15 - 01 - 2017
Chemical Council: New strategy to raise Egypt's exports to $32bn by 2020
Egyptian Chemical and Fertilizers Export Council (CEC) coordinates with Trade and Industry Ministry to raise sector's exports to US$32 billion by 2020, CEC Head Khaled Abu El Makarem stated Saturday. The Chairman added that the total exports of (...)

14 - 01 - 2017
The pound and dollar drama: Is there an exit?
While the Egyptian pound was devalued officially months ago, talk has surfaced about further devaluations or a full-fledged currency flotation that leaves it at the mercy of both the regular and black markets. Ambiguity launched a frenzied rush to (...)

02 - 11 - 2016
Japan secures $460 million to finance Grand Egyptian Museum
Egypt and Japan signed Monday financing agreements for the completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum, which will allow the country to become a major worldwide hub for Pharonic history and a must-visit place for Egyptologists. Egyptian Minister of (...)

25 - 10 - 2016
Egypt and China: The potential for stronger economic ties
China, the world's largest economy, has become an economic model in modern times, having achieved its tremendous economic growth through tapping its material and human resources rather than occupation, dominance and looting of other countries, as (...)

21 - 10 - 2016
Hamas and Iran: Rapprochement?
Hamas had strong ties with Tehran as part of what was known, before the Arab Spring revolutions, as the “Axis of Resistance” that included Syria and Lebanon's Hezbullah. Bilateral relations deteriorated, however, at the start of the Syrian conflict (...)

11 - 03 - 2015
MBs uncover their plans for Jan. 25
The remains of the Muslim Brotherhood and movements and parties affiliated to it announced on Saturday their plans to protest against the government throughout the nation, on the anniversary of the January 25 revolution. The Donk (the Deprived) (...)

24 - 01 - 2015
Egypt's Economic Battle from June 1967 to October 1973
Over its long history, which ushered in the written history of the world, Egypt lived through decisive moments when the future of the entire nation was at stake. Every time, its heroic people prove the country has a sword and invincible wall of (...)

12 - 10 - 2014
Egypt's economic battle from June 1967 to October 1973
At key moments in history, the true mettle of nations and its citizens is tested in their ability to carve out their fate, defend the land, people, and the components of nationhood. Egypt is no exception to this rule Over its long history, which (...)

11 - 10 - 2014
Domestic cohesion, the protest law, national independence and confronting ISIS
As Egypt progresses in its political roadmap, it is time to address the fractures created by the disappointing protest law; all the more so amid international and regional developments that demand maximal Egyptian cohesion Egypt's progress in the (...)

22 - 09 - 2014
Developing the Suez Canal: Egypt's future
The great projects that make Egypt proud include the High Dam, the greatest twentieth century infrastructure project in the world. It is a shield protecting Egypt from the ravages of destructive annual flooding and killer droughts. The dam gave (...)

25 - 08 - 2014
Countries in turmoil: From Palestine to Iraq and everything in between
The Arab map and its collection of traditional balances are currently poised for major changes. Our Arab countries are the target of successive assaults by their enemies overseas, forces of evil and impedance, and domestic terrorism that is (...)

12 - 08 - 2014
Egypt's budget: beginning cautiously to exit the Mubarak box
The general budget is a key document in defining a state's socio-economic policies. It reflects its social biases or balance between the interests of the poor, middle class and wage workers on the one hand, and the interests of the wealthy, and (...)

29 - 07 - 2014
Social justice: The unfulfilled dream of the Egyptian revolution
While revolutions usually take decisive actions to achieve the goals that triggered them, achieving social justice – the main demand of the Egyptian revolution – remains unfulfilled, as the revolution overthrew two regimes but has not ruled. Simply (...)

09 - 07 - 2014
A history of struggle and enlightenment we will not squander
In Egypt, the initial three-quarters of the 20th century had shaped an era of struggle for enlightenment and the achievement of equality between women and men. Such progress was a strong and swift extenuation to the harbingers of development in the (...)

19 - 06 - 2014
Stock market and income taxes as a step toward justice
There is currently a fierce debate raging in Egypt around the imposition of a capital gains tax (CGT) on the stock market, which has also witnessed waves of selling that have driven share prices down significantly in an attempt to pressure the state (...)

06 - 06 - 2014
The Nakba anniversary: Land, myths and the Zionist 'miracle'
Without massive foreign assistance, and the complicity of Western powers, Zionists would not have been able to establish Israel on lands they did not buy but rather usurped from Palestinians Whenever the anniversary of the Zionist rape of Palestine (...)

25 - 05 - 2014
Russia and the West: From Ukraine to the High Dam
The tension between the West and Russia over Ukraine, alongside other matters, once played out in Egypt, where Soviet funding proved decisive in building of one of the 20th century's greatest infrastructure achievements Once the former Soviet Union (...)

14 - 05 - 2014
Fact and fiction: Diverting water from the Congo to the Nile
Some suggest diverting 112 billion cubic metres of water from the River Congo to the Nile, which is utterly ridiculous. How can the course of the Nile, with a revenue of 84 billion cubic metres annually at Aswan, sustain another 112 billion cubic (...)

08 - 05 - 2014
The water situation for Nile Basin countries
Egypt always views its historic rights and share of Nile water, and the strong connection between the life of humans, crops and cattle to this quota, of which Egypt uses every drop, as the foundation for any debate over Nile Basin water. This (...)

01 - 05 - 2014
Ethiopia's 'logic' and the necessary confrontation
Addis Ababa is either unaware of such a thing as international law, in place to regulate water relations among countries sharing the same watercourse, or has no respect for it to begin with. Its absurd position regarding the Renaissance Dam (...)

18 - 04 - 2014
El-Abnoudi's songs: The heart of Egypt and the Arabs
The poetry of Abdel-Rahman El-Abnoudi has been delivered by lead singers ever since the end of the 1950s. It contributed to recording Egypt's national battles and shaping its collective consciousness Although poetry is the gospel of the Arabs, its (...)

16 - 04 - 2014
Urban encroachment, lost development, and Egypt's next president
The loss of prime agricultural lands to illegal urban encroachment is something Egypt's next president must address via practical solutions that preserve the right to housing for new rural generations The most severe problems usually arise due to (...)

12 - 04 - 2014
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