BEIRUT: Lebanon needs a $20 billion-$25 billion bailout including International Monetary Fund support to emerge from its financial crisis, former Economy...
BEIRUT: Like most young protesters flooding Lebanon’s streets to vent their fury over joblessness and inequality, Nina Sabbah demands more than the...
DOHA: Trade between Qatar and Turkey is expected to have hit $2 billion in 2018, a Turkish official said, up 54 percent from the previous year and...
DOHA: Qatar Investment Authority aims to raise investments in the United States to $45 billion in the next two years as it rebalances its portfolio of assets...
DUBAI/DOHA: Even before taking over Qatar’s energy policy in a government reshuffle last month, Qatar Petroleum CEO Saad al-Kaabi had long wanted the Gulf...
DOHA: Qatar’s decision to commit to sweeping labor reforms may head off an international investigation into its treatment of hundreds of thousands of foreign...
CAIRO: Wheat shipments to Egypt, the world’s largest buyer, are being disrupted by a dispute involving government inspectors angered by a ban on the...
CAIRO: An often fiery government critic, Egyptian journalist Khaled al-Balshi has been arrested, had his operations monitored, and staff harassed by police...
CAIRO: Borrowing a cup of sugar from your neighbor has rarely been so contentious in Egypt. At supermarkets across the country sugar has all but vanished,...
CAIRO/ABU DHABI: Egypt has launched a recount of its wheat silos after an unusually high procurement figure spurred widespread fraud allegations from top...
EASTERN DESERT: Careering around Egypt’s rocky Eastern Desert, Alexander Nubia CEO Mark Campbell peers from his jeep and sees hills so rich with gold they...
CAIRO: At the far corner of a faceless government building in Cairo an unusually high-tech attempt to stem Egypt’s waste-and-theft-riddled wheat market is...
CAIRO: When Egyptian lawyer Ahmed Gad stepped out of a cafe on the outskirts of Cairo to take a call last October, a gunman on the back of a motorcycle...
ABU DHABI/CAIRO: Egypt has more rice than it needs but little available for those who need it most. The price the government pays for rice has surged by about...
CAIRO/ABU DHABI: A global grain glut should make purchasing wheat cheap and easy for Egypt, the world’s biggest importer, but traders say one bureaucrat has...
CAIRO: When Egyptian central bank Governor Hesham Ramez quit, phones began ringing as bankers congratulated each other on the departure of a man they say...
CAIRO/DUBAI: When Abu Dhabi-run contractor Arabtec signed a deal with the Egyptian government for a high-profile housing project it was seen as a sign of the...
CAIRO: The discovery of the Zohr natural gas field off Egypt will not undermine private-sector negotiations about buying gas from Israel, Egypt’s oil minister...