Egypt

  • Mar 15, 2007
  • 7 min read

UNITED KINGDOM: Deterrent renewal may spark arms race

Parliament yesterday agreed to renew the country's nuclear deterrent. The decision has important...

United Kingdom
  • Mar 13, 2007
  • 1 min read

EGYPT: Brotherhood crackdown ahead of referendum

Security forces today arrested nine members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood (MB) after yesterday...

Egypt
  • Jan 15, 2007
  • 7 min read

EGYPT: EU aid promotes economic integration

EU-Egyptian talks on agricultural liberalisation are due to start this quarter. The EU's...

Egypt
  • Dec 28, 2006
  • 8 min read

PROSPECTS 2007: Succession dominates Egyptian politics

Reform trends went into reverse in 2006 despite the explosion of demands for political change...

  • Dec 28, 2006
  • 2 min read

ISRAEL/US: Bolstering Abbas carries major risks

A State Department spokesman today criticised Israeli plans to settle 30 families in a former...

Israel
  • Dec 7, 2006
  • 7 min read

EGYPT: Orascom Group expands rapidly

Patriarch Onsi Sawiris and his three sons Naguib, Nassef and Samih have built one of the Middle...

Egypt
  • Nov 20, 2006
  • 2 min read

EGYPT: Mubarak reforms appear cosmetic

President Hosni Mubarak in an address to parliament yesterday, which had been billed by the state...

Egypt
  • Nov 17, 2006
  • 6 min read

EGYPT: Nuclear programme blazes trail for Arab states

Cairo on November 12 declared its readiness to start constructing nuclear power stations. The...

Egypt