Described as Egypt’s Indiana Jones, world-famous archaeologist Zahi Hawass has held the keys to Egyptian Antiquities for 30 years. Throughout his illustrious career, Dr Hawass has made a number of major discoveries, including the Tombs of the Pyramid Builders at Giza and the Valley of the Golden...
The trade of stolen treasures is booming around the world. Although like with most illegal activities, looting is hard to quantify; satellite imagery, police seizures, and witness reports from the field all indicate that the looting of priceless and irreplaceable cultural artifacts is generating...
Egypt has asked Interpol to help track down a 3,000 sculpture of the famed boy Pharaoh Tutankhamun after it was sold in Christie’s in London for almost £5 million to an anonymous buyer in one of the most controversial auctions in years, despite Egypt warning it was probably stolen in the 1970s....
It has been nearly a decade since Libya’s leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was deposed as a result of a popular uprising sparked by similar demonstrations in Tunisia and Egypt. After an initial burst of optimism from Libyans and the international community, the political situation in Libya has gone...
Mr. Bandar Reda has served as the Secretary-General and CEO of the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) since March 2019. He was nominated for the position by the Board of Directors of the Union of Arab Chambers and approved by the Board of Directors of the ABCC. Mr. Reda enjoys high...
The Arab region needs to harness the huge, untapped potential of the region’s youth and meet the “strong demand for employment” in order to develop and prosper, the Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit said at the Arab-British Economic Summit 2019: A Share Vision in London on 3...
In December last year, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi went on a 20-minute televised rant complaining about the country’s rising pandemic of obesity. In his second tirade against obesity in as many months, el-Sisi interrupted health minister Hala Zayed as she presented new numbers on the...
The Trump Administration’s two-day Peace to Prosperity economic conference, which calls for $50 billion of investment in the Palestinian territories and its neighbours within a decade, took place this week in Manama, Bahrain. The workshop, which discussed the economic chapter of Washington’s...
Iran is ascendant in the Middle East, having exploited opportunities arising from the wars in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen by actively supporting proxies to spread its influence in a contiguous geographic arc from Tehran to Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut. Some of Tehran’s neighbors and...
Following a long period of anticipation and repeated delays, US officials have announced that they will hold an economic workshop in Bahrain in late June as the first step in the administration’s road map for peace between Israel and Palestine. The conference, which will take place in the capital...
