I was getting settled on a British Airways plane, due to take off from London Heathrow airport to Amman, Jordan a few hours before many airports closed down for commercial flights in the Middle East region and beyond back in March 2020. After the passengers were on board the plane, many were on their cell […]
In 2018, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement was founded, paving the way for free trade amongst 54 of the continent’s countries. This marked a new chapter for improving business and trade relations within the continent, but there remain many structural obstacles to achieving better economic integration. Egypt has been placing economic integration with the
While an undergrad, Ahmed Abdel Monem Abdou was already selling water filters he bought from wholesalers. Studying mechanical engineering, he was also able to invent a new kind of water filtration process which significantly reduced the number of processes to make purified drinking water. However, when he tried to patent his invention, someone else had
Football in Egypt is tricky business. Scratch that, football in Egypt is actually rarely seen as a business whatsoever. Most big football teams either rely on budgets that are supported by big companies or institutions, or are owned by entities that integrate their football teams within other streams of revenue, making it hard to focus
