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Egypt: Economy expected to grow 5% this fiscal year
Egypt’s economy may grow nearly 5 percent in the fiscal year that ends in June 2010, Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali said today. The economy of the most populous Arab country is expected to expand by up to 4.7 percent in the fiscal year that ended in June, compared to 7.2 percent in the previous year,... »
Three Empires On the Nile
Between the completion of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the Battle of Omdurman in 1898, the British Empire expanded up the Nile River, impelled by varied motives: money, vengeance, humanitarianism, and imperial diplomacy. In Three Empires on the Nile, Green’s panoramic narrative re-creates these three decades with remarkable dynamism, applying a flair for... »
