Egypt

Much has been made of the government’s reliance on the domestic banking sector to fund its fiscal obligations in the wake of the 2011 uprising. The stream of high-yield T-bills has proved such an effortless and lucrative line of business to the nation’s lenders that the private sector – with the exception of the blue chips – has been crowded out of...

The Mamluks, who descended from non-Arab slaves who were naturalised to serve and fight for ruling Arab dynasties, are revered as some of the greatest warriors the world has ever known. Although the word “mamluk” translates as “one who is owned”, the Mamluk soldiers proved otherwise, gaining a powerful military standing in various Muslim...

In the following, we aim to clarify the laws relevant to businesses operating in Egypt. To this end, we shall focus on the corporate, labour, investment, and property laws of the country.

Egyptians have a great enthusiasm for association football, borne of a long history of the sport in the country, the success of the national team and the intense rivalry that characterises the game at the domestic level. Paintings on Ancient Egyptian temples depict balls being kicked. The modern game arrived around the 1880s, when Egyptians...

A TRANSITIONAL PERIOD: The sudden and unprecedented collapse of former president Hosni Mubarak's regime plunged Egypt into a period of significant economic uncertainty. The lack of political clarity for a long time has severely affected business and consumer confidence, as well as having significant...

Peak oil, put simply, refers to the point in time when global oil extraction reaches its maximum capacity. After this point, the rate of production enters into terminal, irreversible decline. As a theory, it has generated more controversy than is perhaps appropriate for what remains a logical statement of fact. That is, oil, like any finite resource...