Egypt and seven Arab and Islamic nations on 23 July condemned Israel's latest escalation at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, including large-scale settler incursions led by Israeli ministers and the display of the Israeli flag inside the…
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Peace. It is the final word that Egyptian poet Salah Jahin uses in his poem, El Shay Bel Laban (Tea with Milk, 1955), which was published in his first…
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Egypt as a Global Operations Hub: How It Got Here, and a Framework for Where It Goes Next
In 2003, a newly established subsidiary of Telecom Egypt called Xceed began its first contact center operations in Cairo, handling customer-facing communications for global companies. Its early contracts were straightforward: inbound voice support, handled in Arabic, English, and French. At the time, India, China, and Malaysia dominated the global outsourcing conversation, with Egypt not even on the map. Twenty three years later, the picture is unrecognizable. Egypt's digital export revenues reached $4.8 billion (252 billion…
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As the Iran war exposes the fragility of maritime trade, the case for a physical link between Africa and Asia…