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EGYPT BUILT AIRPORT CITY AROUND CAIRO INTERNATIONAL
THE EGYPTIAN government has unveiled plans to construct an “airport city” around Cairo International Airport. The country’s civil aviation minister Samir Embaby Mewaly said the project would involve the investment of USD20 billion and would involve the development of 10 million square metres of land around the airport, to the east of central Cairo.…
EGYPT BUILT AIRPORT CITY AROUND CAIRO INTERNATIONAL
THE EGYPTIAN government has unveiled plans to construct an “airport city” around Cairo International Airport. The country’s civil aviation minister Samir Embaby Mewaly said the project would involve the investment of USD20 billion and would involve the development of 10 million square metres of land around the airport, to the east of central Cairo.…
MUNIB AL-MASRI: BUSINESSMAN, LEADER, AND NATION BUILDER
In the West Bank, everyone calls him ‘The Godfather’ or ‘The Duke of Nablus’ – Munib al-Masri, 79, is the richest Palestinian, the patriarch of a prominent Palestinian family that has produced bankers, consultants and politicians, and also one of the most influential.…
LEBANON REMAINS KEYSTONE OF TOBACCO MOLASSES HOOKAH MARKET
LEBANON was an important shop window for Middle East and North Africa manufacturers of tobacco molasses used in hookahs until a public smoking ban was implemented in 2012. And while the ban has dented Lebanon’s strategic positioning, as a popular regional tourist destination and with the Lebanese travelling widely, the country is still an important market.…
VIRTUAL FITTING ROOMS, COMPOSTABLE CLOTHES MAKE 2012 INNOVATIVE YEAR FOR CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SECTOR
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
FROM toxic t-shirts to virtual fitting rooms, defamatory garments and compostable shoes, the clothing and textiles industry in 2012 was anything but dull.
The year started off with workers at Mexican textile firm Hilaturas Tejidos y Acabados Xtra ending a four-year strike in January after agreeing on a new wage deal with its owners – proving that sticking to your guns long enough can actually pay off.…
MIDDLE EAST PAINT MARKET KNOCKED BY CONTINUING DISPRUPTION OF ARAB SPRING
BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT
THE UPRISINGS in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past two years have had a negative impact on the construction and paint sectors, throwing a proverbial spanner in the works when the region was striving to come out of recession.…
EU SLUMP DRAGS ON AFRICAN ARAB SPRING STATES
BY PACIFICA GODDARD
10 SEPTEMBER 2012
MOROCCO, Tunisia, and Egypt – respectively the sixth, seventh and sixteenth largest exporters of knitwear to the European Union’s 27 member states, as measured by sales value – have traditionally been competitive knitwear producers and exporters.…
OIL AND GAS RICH MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH LOOK FOR NUCLEAR AND GREEN ENERGY TO SOLIDIFY ENERGY FUTURE
BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT; AND MARK GAO, IN ISTANBUL
MOST states in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) have mulled developing nuclear power over the past decade, from Morocco to Egypt, and Jordan to Saudi Arabia, but only the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is coming close to embarking on the nuclear option thus far.…
EGYPTIAN AIRPORT EXPANSIONS CONTINUE DESPITE POLITICAL TURMOIL
BY PAUL COCHRANE, IN BEIRUT
DESPITE much political turmoil over the course of the past year in Egypt, the country’s ongoing airport expansion projects have not been suffering. For the past decade, major expansion and renovation works have been underway, to handle the surge in foreign tourists to the North African country; which jumped from 5.5 million in 2002 to 14.7 million in 2010.…
UPRISINGS RAISE SPRING HOPES FOR ARABIC PUBLISHERS
BY PAUL COCHRANE IN BEIRUT
THE ‘ARAB Spring’ uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) over the past year have had a mixed effect on Arabic publishing. Book sales have plunged due to instability, and while some countries have loosened up on censorship, others have clamped down.…