“Enabling Entrepreneurship in Egypt: Towards a Sustainable Dynamic Model“, a policy-oriented report of which I am the lead author and which assesses the Egyptian entrepreneurship support institutional environment and, with the use of global best [...]
African Economic Outlook 2012 – Special Theme: Promoting Youth Employment” is a leading publication of the African Development Bank, developed with a number of institutional partners including UNDP and UNECA – which I strongly urge you [...]
Egypt: News websites and alternative voices. This study looks at a selection of news websites, which represent the main political viewpoints in Egypt today. It begins with an overview of the websites, categorizing them by traffic [...]
Egypt After the Spring: Revolt and Reaction. This Adelphi volume brings together senior sch olars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the tumultuous period from the January 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, [...]
Had to be done (actually surprised it hasn't already): Writing about the latest US elections like US media writes about African countries. **COUNTRY CRISIS WATCH** [insert CNN "breaking news" type of jingle] The US of A, [...]
Jobs would give refugees both money and dignity Image: REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke Polykastro, Greece Khaled wakes up early. Most people in the refugee camp in Polykastro, in northern Greece, do – the tents [...]
EGP vs USD. It's bad. On Monday, July 25, the Egyptian pound (LE) reached its lowest value ever in the parallel market. The unofficial exchange rate, LE12.95 per U.S. dollar, was a staggering 47% below [...]
Ahram Online was kind enough to ask me to write a 2016 postcard to whomever I wished. I wrote this - which was four times the limit number of words. I guess I wanted [...]
“Today is not the time for criticizing. Today is the time for cheerleading. Tomorrow, we criticize,” said my venture capitalist friend, responding to my skeptical comments after we attended the presentation for the Capital Cairo [...]
Egypt’s Economic Development Conference (EEDC), launches this weekend in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Its stakes, in Egypt at least, seem to be getting higher by the minute. The conference has become an event [...]
