The following article is part of Al-Masry Al Youm's weekly "Environmental Voices" series, in which issues related to the environment--whether local, regional or international in nature--will be discussed from the point of view of environmental (...)
Following the H1N1 scare and the decision to slaughter Cairo's pigs, Egypt's capital is in desperate need of new solutions to deal with organic waste. Laila Iskandar has some solutions
The unsanitary condition of the streets of Cairo has been (...)
Laila Iskandar* writes about the dilemmas of the informal sector
The belief that economic growth is an effective path to employment-generation in all countries and all levels of society, overlooks the immediate and short-term problems facing those (...)
True national development must give opportunity and dividends to all, writes Laila Iskandar*
According to the 2003 UN report on "The Challenge of Slums," Cairo has three of the 30 largest mega-slums in the world. Two of these are Manchiyet Nasser (...)
Can the poor earn a living and receive an education at the same time? Laila Iskandar* explains how science and technology support sustainable education and development
When poverty is severe in urban pockets and in rural areas, unemployed and under- (...)