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Articles of the author Jasper Thornton
What price Saddam?
As the US ponders an Iraq attack, the Egyptian economy is already feeling the pinch. Jasper Thornton looks at the dangers Foggy Bottom is a delightful area in the heart of Washington DC. Lime-green trees line wide, well-kept streets, public parks (...)

04 - 04 - 2002
Bonaparte's battalions
Internet access is now free, but someone still has to make money. Jasper Thornton talks to the Network Providers about their new business challenges had his armies, Dante his Beatrice, Pele his Brazilians. Behind every success story lies an unsung (...)

07 - 03 - 2002
Where has all the money gone?
As figures dribble out revealing how badly Egypt was hit by 11 September, Jasper Thornton looks at the state of Egypt's foreign revenue earnings The government is beginning to release the figures needed for analysts to see how badly Egypt's economy (...)

07 - 02 - 2002
The gas solution
As countries around the region tumble over each other to announce their gas development plans, Jasper Thornton checks out Egypt's latest move Natural gas may seem something better left to pale chemists and bloodless industrialists -- a drab (...)

31 - 01 - 2002
Orphans at the feast
Jasper Thornton discovers charity can't always begin at home At times a place can act like a mirror, showing us our best, cheek- by-jowl with our worst. An orphanage can be one of those places, reflecting tarnished humanity, crusted with fault, yet (...)

20 - 12 - 2001
Golden kuffiyehs and mobile phones
On holiday in the Sinai, Jasper Thornton is invited to a Bedouin wedding and witnesses a cultural collision My backside was feeling tender. Every time the jeep slithered over a hump I felt the road through the hard seat with its malnourished (...)

08 - 11 - 2001
Gold rush
Egypt, it seems, has a lot of gold. But there is already controversy about how best to turn it into wealth. Jasper Thornton writes In the dry dunes of the Eastern desert stands a hill. At first glance, it seems like any other hill: it has nothing to (...)

08 - 11 - 2001
Utopia in a village
It's good for IT. But is it good for Egypt? Jasper Thornton checks out Egypt's new Smart Village Imagine. Inside your office, the air tingles with the satisfying hum of computers working at capacity. Expensive air-conditioners chill the air and warm (...)

04 - 10 - 2001
The cost of vengeance
The terrorists who struck last Tuesday haven't just bloodied America. They have put the whole world in danger of catastrophic recession. Jasper Thornton writes Joe Ledward is a regular American. He owns a trucking company in Washington, serving (...)

20 - 09 - 2001
In this together
A deluge of hate seems poised to rain down on Arabs and Muslims living in the West, even before those responsible for Tuesday's abominable acts are identified Despite instant denunciations by American Arab groups of Tuesday's awful terrorist (...)

13 - 09 - 2001
Stepping off the gas
As the Intifada rages, Egypt seems to have decided not to sell gas to Israel. That leaves it with few options. Jasper Thornton reports Something's afoot when The New York Times and The Washington Post show an interest in Egypt's gas prospects. Last (...)

30 - 08 - 2001
'The yin and yang of IT'
The hippie days of the Internet are gone and as competition heats up among Egypt's IT portals, commercial ambition replaces vows to save the world, Jasper Thornton reports Though they work with high technology and are at the vanguard of the new (...)

05 - 07 - 2001
Best of enemies
Egypt's two largest investment banks, and once hated rivals, EFG-Hermes and CIIC, are to merge. For the merger to be a success, the bankers will need to put past sourness behind them, writes Jasper Thornton Rapid growth, competitiveness, market (...)

21 - 06 - 2001
All work and no play
Many of us have to work like demons to keep pace in a competitive, globalised world. Jasper Thornton asks what it is doing to us In a small, ill-lit office in Heliopolis, a young woman is hunched over a computer, like a shrub in wind. Layla is 30, (...)

14 - 06 - 2001
In Nepal, death
The royal family of Nepal lies dead. Crown prince Dipendra is blamed for their murder. Jasper Thornton, who was at school with Dipendra, remembers the prince Peering into the mists of a person's past to find clues to the present may be fruitless. (...)

07 - 06 - 2001
Metal urge
While everyone else has been fretting about IT, oil and tourism, one company has been quietly hunting gold in the Eastern desert. They've just publicised their discoveries; and they are big - very big, writes Jasper Thornton The office of Sami (...)

07 - 06 - 2001
'Never again'
In 1994, 800,000 Rwandans were butchered. A Belgian court is now trying four Rwandans for genocide. Jasper Thornton asks why genocide happened, and whether it may happen again Early in May, two Catholic nuns, wearing brown habits and speaking (...)

31 - 05 - 2001
A passionate telling
Jasper Thornton speaks to Sherine Al-Ansari, a woman with stories to tell Riches I hold in light esteem And love I laugh to scorn And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished in the morn -- And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for (...)

24 - 05 - 2001
Superman versus Sun Tzu
One man is spending big, the other is trusting brains. Jasper Thornton gazes up at Egypt's new portal giants Tareq Ismail looks like a dot-com entrepreneur. When I meet him, he is unshaven. He is wearing track suit leggings and a sweatshirt. He (...)

03 - 05 - 2001
Putin pressures the press
Last week the editors and managers of Russia's last independent national TV station were ousted by a state-owned shareholder. Jasper Thornton asks what is happening There is a joke Russians tell about themselves. An American goes up to heaven and (...)

26 - 04 - 2001
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