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What we’re tracking this week and beyond
Tourism forum ITB Berlin is kicking off on Wednesday, according to the convention’s website. Tourism Minister Rania Al Mashat is taking part in the sessions of the first day. Egypt and a UAE company will sign an operation and management agreement in the field of tire manufacturing “within days,” Public Enterprise Minister Hisham Tawfik said, […]
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Smaller countries tend to outperform booming economies in wellness, lifestyle health
Smaller countries tend to outperform booming economies in wellness, lifestyle health index: A new report from investment firm LetterOne has found that high-GDP countries tend to fall behind in terms of lifestyle and wellness, with many small countries with emerging economies such as Oman, Bahrain, Thailand, Honduras, and Laos making it to the top 25 […]
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Environmental damage halts commercial land reclamation in China
This is China’s Ocean Flower Island, one of a slew of commercial reclaimed islands designed to draw an über wealthy crowd à la Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, Bloomberg reports. Commercial land reclamation in China has been an immense project: From 2013 to 2016, nearly 420 square km was reclaimed, not counting the disputed islands in the […]
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Egypt in the News on 5 March 2019
The release of award-winning photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid (Shawkan) after being detained for five years is topping coverage of Egypt today. Abu Zeid was arrested back in August 2013 while covering clashes between security forces and supporters of former President Mohamed Morsi. He was retrospectively sentenced to five years in prison in September 2018 along […]
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El Sisi meets with officials to discuss social welfare programs
El Sisi pushes for efforts to support vulnerable groups: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s meeting with officials to discuss social welfare programs to support vulnerable groups topped the front pages of all three state-owned newspapers this morning (Al Ahram | Al Gomhuria | Al Akhbar).
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Helicopter Ben and the new American Left
Helicopter Ben and the new American Left: Talking to any veteran South American lefty about helicopters is likely to trigger less-than-fond memories of the dark days of the 1970s. And while many of the Trump-loving Twitterati are only too happy to give out helicopter rides without charge to supporters of Bernie Sanders, center-left Democratic Party […]
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US regulators are considering cutting Big Tech down to size
It’s one of the perennial questions of our era: when it comes to companies, how big is too big? In the case of big tech companies, it’s a particularly thorny issue. Although Facebook, Amazon and Google may be “the big oil or railroad corporations of their day,” in order for the US to take antitrust […]
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Nasri Khattar: the Lebanese architect who attempted to revolutionize Arabic typography
A little less than a century ago, a little-known Lebanese architect tried to do away with the way Arabic script is written. This podcast episode from Kerning Cultures explores the story of Nasri Khattar, the man “tried to completely overhaul the Arabic script — singlehandedly” (listen, runtime: 24:20). Khattar’s idea was to reduce the number […]