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...Ziad El Chaar, chief executive of DarGlobal, said: “London [is] the best location for us as we look to access new capital and build our global visibility with development and luxury brand partners.”...
...The group’s secretary-general, Ziad Nakaleh, is based in Damascus and meets regularly in both Tehran and Beirut with Iranian and Lebanese Hizbollah leaders....
...There are bluesy cadences of the Maghreb elsewhere: “Foghorn Calling”, with a karkabou rattle from Karim Ziad and his brother Malik’s guembri jostling with Faccini’s oud — the foghorn calling perhaps across...
...AlexBank, the Egyptian subsidiary of Intesa Sanpaolo, has appointed Ziad Ahmed Bahaa El-Din as its non-executive chairman of the board of directors....
...In 2014, an Isis bomb smuggled on to a Russian airliner in 2014 in Sharm el-Sheikh in southern Sinai killed 220 people....
...The generals overseeing Egypt’s armed forces gave their blessing to a presidential bid by country’s defence minister, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, just hours after he was promoted to field marshal by Adli Mansour...
...Egypt’s army-backed cabinet met to discuss the crisis as the Muslim Brotherhood called for more street protests and its opponents, led by the prime minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, argued for an outright ban...
...On Sunday night, a presidential spokesman announced that Ziad Bahaa Eldin, a lawyer and former head of the Egyptian Investment Authority, was tipped to be named interim prime minister....
...The appointment of a technocratic prime minister, Hazem El Beblawi, in addition to the deputy prime minister, Ziad Bahaedine and Ahmed Galal, as Minister of Finance, is definitely a step in the direction...
...Egyptian Islamist and secular groups earlier lambasted a constitutional road map intended to chart a return to democracy as Hazem El Beblawi, the country’s prime minister designate, began to assemble his...
...Indeed, this year’s festival proved to be particularly animated thanks to a large number of free Bollywood screenings on Marrakech’s famous square, the Jemaa el-Fnaa....
...To mark his 50th birthday, Ziad Aly, the chairman of a mobile content and application company, AlZwad, began in September a motorbike tour across Egypt to interview the country’s aspiring entrepreneurs....
...It peaked again at 7,200 just before the fall of Zein el Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisian president, and the start of the Arab spring in January 2011....
...Hisham El-Khazindar, co-founder of Citadel Capital, the Cairo-based private equity firm, which has $9.5bn of investments, says political change will generate longer-term growth....
...As artist Zena el Khalil expressed it in her note on her work in a group show in Beirut and Turin in 2008, “I was born in war. Everything around me now is war....
...“Our aim is to find the correct balance between regulatory measures and energising the market by encouraging new forms of activity,” says Ziad Bahaa El-Din, chairman of the Egyptian Financial Supervisory...
...Ziad Bahaa el-Din, the chairman, says the company seeks to identify and develop opportunities before offering them up to the private sector....
...Most encouraging, says Ziad Bahaa el Din, chairman of Egypt’s investment promotion agency, Gafi, is that non-oil and gas investment has tipped from just 20 per cent of FDI in 2003 to 70 per cent today....
...(El Quixote) RK: It depends what hard measures you have in mind....
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