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Members of an Egyptian family gather outside their house in a Cairo slum on March 17, 2011. (Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images)

Egypt’s government buckles down to tackle slum problem

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jun 29, 2014 | Features

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s new government has established a ministry dedicated to resolving one of the country’s most pressing problems: the ashwaa’iyya, or slums built haphazardly on former agricultural wasteland. The danger these informal settlements pose...

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US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi before a meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, on Sunday, June 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kerry discusses Middle East security with Sisi in Cairo

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jun 23, 2014 | Middle East

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—US Secretary of State John Kerry held meetings on Sunday in Cairo with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, and Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby, before leaving for Jordan, with the Iraq crisis featuring prominently among the discussions. In...

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Hisham El-Hayali. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Egypt can become global digital hub—telecoms regulator chief

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jun 18, 2014 | Business

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt has the potential to become a regional and global digital communications hub, the chief executive of Egypt’s telecoms regulator, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA), told Asharq Al-Awsat as the country prepares to...

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In this Saturday, March 10, 2013 file photo, Egyptian traders work on the floor of the stock market in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Egypt amends new stock market law

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Jun 3, 2014 | Business

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Egyptian government has taken measures to ease some of the provisions from a new stock market tax law announced last week after the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) recorded its biggest daily drop in almost a year on Sunday following the...

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Presidential hopeful Hamdeen Sabahy talks in front of his posters during a rally in El Senbelaween city, 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 15, 2014. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Hamdeen Sabahy: “The former regime never disappeared”

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | May 19, 2014 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—With fewer than two weeks to go until polling day in Egypt’s presidential elections, Asharq Al-Awsat sat down with candidate Hamdeen Sabahy, the only opposition to frontrunner Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, in Cairo to talk about his vision for Egypt’s...