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Economy

The Egypt-IMF loan negotiation: The soap opera continues

Watching Egypt’s negotiation with the IMF for a proposed $4.8bn loan has…

Iris Boutros
Iris Boutros
30 june

Alternatives

After a stellar week in Egyptian foreign policy, with both a fiasco…

Mahmoud Salem
Mahmoud Salem
Egypt

Lessons in impunity

It's been a rough few weeks for heads-of-state the world over. In…

Rasheed Hammouda
Rasheed Hammouda
Erdogan

Turkey, the Arab world, and the myth of moderate Islamism

By Nervana Mahmoud For years, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was generally…

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Daily News Egypt
Philip Whitfield

Fried Rice

By: Philip Whitfield Of all the poker players I’d want to cut…

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Daily News Egypt

Running with women

Being a feminist almost always involves criticism of male thinking or male…

Thoraia Abou Bakr
Thoraia Abou Bakr
Egypt

Farag Fouda; assassination of the word

Twenty one years ago Egyptian thinker and philosopher, Farag Fouda was assassinated…

Sara Abou Bakr
Sara Abou Bakr
30 june

What’s really wrong with Morsi

The one year anniversary of Mohamed Morsi’s election is approaching fast. From…

Ziad A. Akl
Ziad A. Akl
Bassem Youssef

The Egyptian Teddy Bear!

It irks me so much how some of us Egyptians are sometimes…

Mohamed Fouad
Mohamed Fouad
bidding

Egypt: Securing energy supplies

Egyptian Natural Gas Holding Company (Egas) awarded eight licences for gas exploration…

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Daily News Egypt