"Narrative Summit" Releases 2025 Recommendations to Cement Egypt's Position as a Global Tourism Destination    Egypt, S.Arabia step up trade ties through coordination council talks    Egypt reviews progress on $200m World Bank-funded waste management hub    Egypt urges Israel to accept Gaza deal amid intensifying fighting    Egypt, ADIB explore strategic partnership in digital healthcare, investment    SCZONE, Tokyo Metropolitan Government sign MoU on green hydrogen cooperation    Egypt welcomes international efforts for peace in Ukraine    Al-Sisi, Macron reaffirm strategic partnership, coordinate on Gaza crisis    Contact Reports Strong 1H-2025 on Financing, Insurance Gains    Egypt, India's BDR Group in talks to establish biologics, cancer drug facility    AUC graduates first cohort of film industry business certificate    Egyptian pound down vs. US dollar at Monday's close – CBE    Egypt's FM, Palestinian PM visit Rafah crossing to review Gaza aid    Egypt prepares unified stance ahead of COP30 in Brazil    Egypt recovers collection of ancient artefacts from Netherlands    Egypt harvests 315,000 cubic metres of rainwater in Sinai as part of flash flood protection measures    Egypt, Namibia explore closer pharmaceutical cooperation    Fitch Ratings: ASEAN Islamic finance set to surpass $1t by 2026-end    Renowned Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim dies at 88    Egyptian, Ugandan Presidents open business forum to boost trade    Al-Sisi says any party thinking Egypt will neglect water rights is 'completely mistaken'    Egypt's Sisi warns against unilateral Nile measures, reaffirms Egypt's water security stance    Egypt's Sisi, Uganda's Museveni discuss boosting ties    Egypt, Huawei explore healthcare digital transformation cooperation    Egypt's Sisi, Sudan's Idris discuss strategic ties, stability    Egypt to inaugurate Grand Egyptian Museum on 1 November    Greco-Roman rock-cut tombs unearthed in Egypt's Aswan    Egypt reveals heritage e-training portal    Sisi launches new support initiative for families of war, terrorism victims    Egypt expands e-ticketing to 110 heritage sites, adds self-service kiosks at Saqqara    Palm Hills Squash Open debuts with 48 international stars, $250,000 prize pool    On Sport to broadcast Pan Arab Golf Championship for Juniors and Ladies in Egypt    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    A minute of silence for Egyptian sports    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    Shoukry reviews with Guterres Egypt's efforts to achieve SDGs, promote human rights    Sudan says countries must cooperate on vaccines    Johnson & Johnson: Second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19    Egypt to tax bloggers, YouTubers    Egypt's FM asserts importance of stability in Libya, holding elections as scheduled    We mustn't lose touch: Muller after Bayern win in Bundesliga    Egypt records 36 new deaths from Covid-19, highest since mid June    Egypt sells $3 bln US-dollar dominated eurobonds    Gamal Hanafy's ceramic exhibition at Gezira Arts Centre is a must go    Italian Institute Director Davide Scalmani presents activities of the Cairo Institute for ITALIANA.IT platform    

Articles of the author Sally Farid
Green economy saving the day
A green economy is the means to salvation for the global economy after the coronavirus pandemic has affected 81 per cent of the world's workforce. After millions of people had been infected and thousands had died due to the virus, the tourism and (...)

19 - 05 - 2020
The Chinese factor
The measures taken by China to contain the Covid-19 pandemic have resulted in an overall two per cent reduction in Chinese production, which has so far been translated into a $50 billion drop in global trade, according to figures from the UN (...)

07 - 04 - 2020
Water effects of the dam
In April 2011, Ethiopia announced its intention to proceed with the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of the country about 30km from Ethiopia's border with Sudan. The main (...)

24 - 03 - 2020
On current political moment, future of the democratic forces in Egypt: Egyptian Social Democratic Party (Part 3)
In the previous article, we made nine observations on what we considered to be the main features of the current political scene, so that we could anticipate the changes that could occur in the coming period. Overall, these observations included a (...)

16 - 07 - 2017
On current political moment, future of democratic forces in Egypt: Egyptian Social Democratic Party as an example
Founders and leaders of many parties that emerged after the revolution, including our party, the Egyptian Social Democratic Party, have taken part in the 25 January Revolution. Long before the founding of these parties, many of these leaders played (...)

10 - 07 - 2017
Who owns the land?
Looking for possible ways to bring more cash into state coffers, the government has decided to take steps to regain state-owned land that may have been illegally built upon after a call last week by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. The (...)

25 - 05 - 2017
VoIP services in question
“Mobile-based applications are the only way I can keep in touch with my parents,” said Marwa Samir, an Egyptian photojournalist living in New York. Boston University graduate Samir said that her parents also used the Internet to communicate with her (...)

27 - 04 - 2017
The 1952 family and conspiracy theory (2-3)
I am wondering how the conspiracy theory is used against Egypt? In other words: why do some sides promote this theory? And against whom? We tried in the previous article to highlight one of the reasons of the use of conspiracy theories to justify (...)

09 - 04 - 2017
Pricier appliances
The floatation of the Egyptian pound has led to a spiralling increase in the prices of imported goods, among them home appliances, with customers now not only complaining of exaggerated prices but also of the unavailability of many brands. Prices of (...)

30 - 03 - 2017
Furniture industry hurdles
Karim Abdel-Hadi, a 32-year-old sales employee, is getting married soon and is in the process of furnishing his apartment. He has decided that instead of shopping at furniture shops, he will go the old-fashioned way and have a carpenter fit out his (...)

02 - 03 - 2017
Inberlinated
For the first time I'm attending the Berlin Film Festival not as a journalist but as a guest of honour, having won the Berlinale Camera lifetime achievement award. This year I therefore want to open my letter from Berlin with an expression of (...)

23 - 02 - 2017
Just scraping by
“The prices of everything have tripled, and I have no clue how we will continue to get by,” Manal Mahmoud, a 38-year-old mother of two in Cairo, said this week. The price hikes have become noticeable on nearly all local and imported products, (...)

02 - 02 - 2017
Pharmaceuticals prices set to rise
Nabila Gaber, a 64-year-old Cairo housewife suffering from heart disease, last month stocked up on all her pharmaceutical needs for a couple of months after she heard news about potential price increases on medicines. “If I hadn't done so I would (...)

17 - 01 - 2017
Entrepreneurs meet for RiseUp
More than 5,000 entrepreneurs and start-up managers gathered over three days in the heart of Cairo this week for the annual RiseUp Summit in order to exchange ideas, get exposure and seal deals. For the fourth consecutive year, RiseUp took place at (...)

13 - 12 - 2016
Chickening out on tariffs
The cabinet cancelled a temporary decree to lift custom tariffs on poultry imports on Monday after Prime Minister Sherif Ismail met earlier this week with local poultry producers and representatives from the Federation of Egyptian Industries who had (...)

06 - 12 - 2016
A day off shopping
Consumer Protection Agency head Atef Yacoub has called on consumers to take action today to boycott shopping as a way of putting pressure on retailers accused of taking advantage of the country's spiralling prices. The first day of the month was (...)

30 - 11 - 2016
Runaway car prices
Sales of new cars in Egypt declined in the first eight months of 2016 by 25.6 per cent, compared to the same period last year, according to data from the Automotive Marketing Information Council (AMIC), an industry group. 98,400 new cars have been (...)

01 - 11 - 2016
Feeling the pinch
Egypt has been suffering from continuous price increases over the past five months, following a devaluation of the Egyptian pound in March and adding burdens to many people. Last week, Minister of Electricity Mohamed Shaker added to these concerns (...)

23 - 08 - 2016
Costlier deposits
In mid-June, the Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) Monetary Policy Committee decided to raise the benchmark overnight deposit rate, overnight lending rate and its main operations rate by one per cent to 11.7 per cent, 12.75 per cent and 12.25 per cent, (...)

20 - 07 - 2016
Firmer than the Berlin Wall
The English director Ken Loach, who turns 80 this Saturday (17 June), is perhaps Britain's best-known auteur. Loach studied law at Oxford University before directing 28 films of various lengths for the BBC, both fictional and documentarym starting (...)

14 - 06 - 2016
Food costs increase
Demand for food increases in Egypt by at least 30 per cent during Ramadan, with family feasts and gatherings after evening prayers being a main feature of the holy month. This year, however, the devaluation of the pound has meant that the prices of (...)

01 - 06 - 2016
Café Cannes
On Friday at the Cannes Film Festival I saw two of the year's most important long documentaries: Pheshmerga by Bernard-Henri Lévy, which was scheduled to be screened outside the competition but in a rare move was added to the official festival (...)

26 - 05 - 2016
All the world's a truck
Opening the Un Certain Regard programme at the Cannes Festival this year was Eshtebak (Clash), by Mohamed Diab – who cowrote the script with his brother Khaled – which heralds the birth of a great Egyptian director. Born in 1977, Diab made his first (...)

17 - 05 - 2016
Metro ticket price: between a burdened government and frustrated commuters
In a crowded city like Cairo, the metro is considered the fastest means of transportation, used by almost all classes and segments of society. Different work and college hours in Cairo mean the Metro is always jammed with passengers, who sometimes (...)

23 - 03 - 2016
1 year after EEDC: What has been achieved?
This time last year, a sizeable segment of society was hailing the end of Egypt's economic crises amid celebrations of the success of its first economic summit. Heads of state, CEOs of international companies and other prominent officials gathered (...)

16 - 03 - 2016
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