Monthly Archives: February 2012

  January 28,2012 One year after Egypt knocked global finance off the agenda at the World Economic Forum, Arab officials returning to Davos may struggle to drum up interest in the region. http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-28/arab-spring-stumps-davos-investors-year-after-egypt-revolt.html

  January 28,2012 Hurghada, Egypt – The beaches are almost empty and taxi drivers jockey for customers in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada, once a bustling city, now desperately struggling to revive its tourism sector a year after the … Continue reading →

  January 27,2012 Leaders of the Arab Spring sought to assure the world’s elite in Davos that the rise of political Islam is not a threat to democracy, and pleaded for help creating jobs and satisfying the hunger of their people for … Continue reading →

January 27,2012 As local small businesses in Egypt suffer, due to reduced consumer spending during the country’s economic crisis, one entrepreneur is plotting to build a virtual call center that will hedge against the risk of being a local or national … Continue reading →

January 26,2012 Abraaj Capital Ltd., the Middle East’s largest private-equity firm, plans to invest $20 million in Egypt’s small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, this year despite the political unrest that has been sweeping the region since last year, a … Continue reading →

January 26,2012 Interview with Ambassador Aleksey Podtserob, who is currently based with the Institute of Oriental Studies in Moscow, Russia. http://english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/26/64674697.html

  January 26,2012 Egypt’s economy, which has been severely hit by the uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year dictatorship, is likely to start improving by the second half of this year, the chief executive of the country’s largest publicly traded … Continue reading →