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Editor's Note
Editor’s Note
by P FItzPatrick
Come the Revolution?
The Nation In Brief
Gas and Metro Price Hikes Hit Home
by Andrew Bossone
The Nation In Brief
Nation in Brief
by Fatima El Saadani and Andrew Bossone
A roundup of the month’s news making the headlines
The Nation In Brief
Arab States Form WTO Bloc
by Ahmed Namatalla
Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid pulls together a bloc to lobby for Arab interests at the World Trade Organization
The Nation In Brief  
Business Confidence Barometer: The Aftermath
by Fatima El Saadani (Survey by Market Insight / GfK)
The World Cup, local and regional political instability, inflation, and volatile exchange rates pressure the market and leave little room for optimism.
News Focus
Etisalat Wins Third License
by Fatima El Saadani
After a much anticipated bidding war,Etisalat’s consortium came out ahead — at an unprecedented cost
News Focus  
A Booster Shot
by Ahmed Namatalla
With a new chairman on board, can Vacsera put a recent corruption scandal behind it and move forward with new production plans that could make it the top supplier of vaccines to the Middle East?
News Focus
Towards an Informed Society
by Fatima El Saadani
The NTRA cuts ADSL prices in a bid to meet its ambitious targetof getting more than 500,000 users on high-speed access by 2007
News Focus
On the Wire
by Andrew Bossone
As Egypt continues to roll out the new one-pound coins, some are thinking to the next step: an economy with almost no cash at all
News Focus
Never Fear a Bear Market
by Fatima El-Saadani
The CASE is about to get bigger with the upcoming introduction of short selling and margin trading
News Focus
Everyone is a Winner
by Callie Maidhof
As SIFE settles into Egypt’s business schools,students are going beyond the classroom to promote entrepreneurship
News Focus
Sir DigbyJones onWhy theBrits areBuying In
by Sherine El-Madany
Egypt has pyramids, beautiful beaches and a unique history, but Britain is buying into Egypt for another reason – business
Face of Business
The Merger
by Fatima El Saadani
Crédit Agricole-Egypt’s Adrien Pharès on his bank’s acquisition of EAB
Finance & Markets
Untapped Potential
by Fatima El Saadani
Jittery investors dominated a month that saw new M&A activity in the banking sector and a telecom rally following the award of the third mobile network operator’s license to Etisalat for a record LE 16.7 billion
Cover Story
Come The Revolution
by Hania Moheeb and Rania Oteify
The mortgage finance system is finally showing signs of life, but even its most ardent backers in government admit there is still work to be done. The stakes are almost incalculably high: Mortgages could revolutionize not just the financial system, but also the nation’s very social fabric.
Movers & Shakers
Movers and Shakers
by bt staff (compilation)
The who’s who of the business world are up and about
Close Up
Spinnin’ ’n Weavin’
by Andrew Bossone
With one textiles-industry success story in Oriental Weavers, a handful of privatized garment makers and cotton ginners are looking to break into the big leagues. Here’s how.
Close Up
A Firm Foundation
by Andrew Bossone
Laila Iskandar and her Community and Institutional Development group (CID) took home the Schwab Foundation’s honor for Social Entrepreneur of the Year in Egypt. We look at how she and her fellow nominees are setting out to change the economy as we understand it today.
Supplement
A Sector on Fire
by Business Today Staff (Compiled)
The oil-and-gas sector continues its six-year-long rally
Rumor Has It
Rumor Has It
by The Rumor Demon
One more cup of coffee?
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