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It’s no secret that the economic situation is Egypt has been in constant decline since the January 25th revolution. It is easy to blame this downturn on the unstable political situation; but the fact remains that the Egyptian economy and resources have been mismanaged for the last six decades. Economic […]

No state in today’s world can escape globalization. The socialist policies adopted by former Egyptian president Nasser in the 1960s might have been suitable for his time. However, the present international system requires the removal of all trade barriers between states. In Egypt, some intellectuals are criticizing Egypt for taking […]

The focus this month in Future Challenges is on global citizens and migration, and how they are changing the faces of  our cities every day. In today’s world travel is cheaper and modern communications enable anyone to learn about other cultures and languages without leaving their own countries. So in […]

Out of the one and a half million Syrians living in Egypt, more than 300,000 have recently come here seeking a safe haven from the never ending shelling and bombing in their homeland. Thousands of Arabs, mostly Muslims, believed that Egypt is where they could start all over again and […]

Bella Abzug, a late feminist activist and American politician is famously quoted as having stated, regarding the equality of men and women in the workplace: “The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes”. I personally agree 100%. And […]