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2016 was an exciting year for the startup ‘ecosystem,’ Wamda says. The UAE is still the central hub of regional investment activity, with investment there 10x more than the closest ranking countries but, generally, “the entrepreneurship ecosystem began showing early signs of maturity.” Wamda says private equity firms have begun making investments in “regional tech […]
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Poor nutrition is a silent killer in Egypt
Koshari is not a nutritious diet, unfortunately: Egypt has a food problem that is driving the segments of the country’s population poor, undernourished, and simultaneously obese, Maddison Sawle writes in Mada Masr. The problem is reflected in high rates of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular diseases, Sawle writes, “an inevitable consequence of a food and […]
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Let’s choose better battery life over thinner phones
Thinner phones? How about better battery life. Reports the Financial Times: “Thinner smartphones or more space for larger batteries are on the way this year, thanks to a big reduction in the size of the latest mobile processors that power them. Qualcomm … said on Tuesday that the new version of its flagship processor — […]
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BY THE NUMBERS
EGP / USD CBE market average: Buy 18.1454 | Sell 18.4654 EGP / USD at CIB: Buy 17.85 | Sell 18.16 EGP / USD at NBE: Buy 17.9 | Sell 18.15 EGX30 (Tuesday): 12,425.17 (+1.09%) Turnover: EGP 1.166 bn (168% above the 90-day average) EGX 30 year-to-date: +0.65% THE MARKET ON TUESDAY: The EGX30 ended […]
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07 January (Saturday): Coptic Christmas, national holiday. 13 January (Friday): Egypt to attend Africa-France Summit 2017 in Mali. 25 January (Wednesday): Revolution (police) day, national holiday. 30 January – 2 February 2017 (Monday-Thursday): Arab Health Exhibition, Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Center, UAE. 14-16 February 2017 (Tuesday-Thursday): Egypt Petroleum Show 2017 (EGYPS), CIEC, Cairo. 31 […]
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The diabolical maze of landmines still left in Egypt from WWII
Second World War belligerents left behind up to 15 mn landmines that continue to litter Egypt’s North Coast to this day, writes Peter Schwartzstein for the Daily Beast. Italian expert and president of the Italian Society for Military Geology and Geography (SIGGMI) Aldino Bondesan and his colleagues have been able to identify every single Italian […]
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What can be learned from a journalist’s time in an Egyptian prison
Fahmy writes a book documenting his time in an Egyptian prison: Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian-Egyptian Al Jazeera reporter who was imprisoned in Egypt as part of the so-called Marriott cell, released a book documenting his time in detention. Fahmy’s imprisonment over charges of being a pro-Muslim Brotherhood “terrorist,” fabricating news and endangering the “security” of […]
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Newton doesn’t like meat plan — and Hamzawy is (surprisingly) not optimistic
Newton doesn’t like meat plan: The Al Masry Al Youm columnist writing under the pseudonym Newton published a letter from a reader saying the plan to import one mn head of cattle to produce 1,000 tonnes of meat will cost Egypt 15,400 liters of water per kg of meat produced, in addition to costs of […]
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Amr Hamzawy says internal, external circumstances leave no room for optimism
Amr Hamzawy is having a hard time finding the light at the end of the tunnel for Egypt in 2017: The country’s state of affairs, including rampant corruption and excessive reliance on external assistance, has left the former parliamentarian saying there is no reason to be optimistic in a column penned for Al Shorouk. Surprising, […]
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Capturing Cairo’s design landscape from the 2016 Dubai Design Week
Egyptian designers making beautiful creations: Medrar TV covered the 2016 Cairo Now: A City Incomplete exhibition from Dubai’s Design Week, an event that captured Cairo’s current design landscape in October 2016. The exhibition included work by “designers who make purely Egyptian work, yet in new ways, work with Egyptian craftsmen and use local materials to […]