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...Of the $1.9bn raised, some $1.65bn was in foreign currency and the rest in Egyptian pounds, said Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on Tuesday....
...In post-second world war Egypt, the firebrand Gamal Abdel Nasser replaced the British colonial yoke with a new authoritarian regime, precursor to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s military-led state today...
...Last June, prime minister Mostafa Madbouly said Egypt had completed projects worth E£4.5tn ($287bn) over six years....
...Only weeks earlier, the police state of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali was overthrown in Tunisia....
...The coffins will be exhibited at a series of new museums, including one in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and in the huge Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo which is due to open in 2021....
...Egypt’s President Abdel Fatteh el-Sisi shut down the popular Al-Karama libraries in 2016 and 2017 because they were funded by the prominent Egyptian human rights defender Gamal Eid....
...Those events and the bombing of a Russian airliner, shortly after it took off from Sharm el-Sheikh in 2015, caused tourist numbers to plunge....
...Rania El Gamal and Eric Knecht of Reuters reported that membership of the cartel could have been a problem for Qatar as it plans to invest billions of dollars in the Golden Pass LNG export project in Texas...
...His only challenger, an obscure politician Mousa Mostafa Mousa, had previously declared himself an ardent supporter of the president’s bid for a second term....
...Tensions in the village of Kom el-Loufi in Minya illustrate the practices that worry many Egyptians....
...In Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser wanted to counter the Muslim Brotherhood and to compete with Saudi Arabia’s Islamic weight by defining Egypt as a leading Arab-Muslim state....
...In 2014, an Isis bomb smuggled on to a Russian airliner in 2014 in Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Sinai killed 220 people....
...Mr El-Gamal eventually abandoned the plans after he was unable to find funding....
...This was followed by Abd el-Nasser’s men, whose adoption of socialist ideology did not prevent them being members of a club for the wealthy....
...Gamal al-Adl, the producer, warned against rushing to judgment, promising that the rest of the show will prove the accusations wrong....
...Walid Gamal El Din, head of the Building Materials Exports Council, said his members were losing sales and missing client deadlines because of difficulties funding imported components....
...The Sharm el-Sheikh conference, which runs until Sunday, will present $35bn worth of government projects to foreign investors....
...Built by thousands of conscripted labourers it was inaugurated in 1869 and nationalised in 1956 by then president Gamal Abdel Nasser, prompting the Suez war....
...In the Assad biography but, above all, in the Solh book, Seale attributed the failure of the pan-Arabist dream – to which everyone from Gamal Abdel Nasser to Hafez al-Assad via Saddam Hussein ceremonially...
...“You need someone tough like Haftar to step up to the outlaws,” says the commentator Abdel Hamid el-Jadi. “He has experience in the Libyan military and he knows the tribes....
...She and Mr El-Erian, until January Bill Gross’s heir apparent at bond giant Pimco, were part of the capital’s in-crowd....
...Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi on Saturday proposed banning the Muslim Brotherhood group in a move apparently aimed at barring it from participating in politics in Egypt....
...“He’s a candidate plus, a candidate who enjoys great support by a majority of people,” said Gamal Sultan, a political scientist at the American University of Cairo....
...It is salutary to remember that when Nasser took power almost 60 years ago, Egypt had more or less the same income per capita as South Korea; now it ranks alongside El Salvador, Kosovo and Swaziland....
...“Here are the real people of Egypt,” declared Mostafa Marzouk, an aircraft technician who attended a pro-Morsi rally along with his two sons....
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