Egypt’s parliament is preparing to discuss proposed amendments targeting online betting platforms, cyber extortion, and the spread of online rumours, according to statements by MP Ahmed Badawi, head of the House of Representatives’ Communications and Information Technology Committee. In statements…
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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…
I returned to my family home in Liguria this year to celebrate Easter—a day that, for most Italians, is…
A wave of viral TikTok videos has sparked a heated debate in Egypt: are women getting a worse financial deal…
Despite its rapid expansion, Cairo faces a critical shortage of public parks and green spaces. Historical trends in the…
