Sun, sea, and sales: investors eye up Sharm el-Sheikh’s hotels

Tourist numbers are rising again, hotels and land are cheap, and new flight routes are opening new markets. Egypt's premier Red Sea resort could be in for a makeover

Marcelle Nasr

One Eye on the Exit

[caption id="attachment_55241856" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An Egyptian man hold a cross during a memorial march for Christians who were killed during clashes with Muslims in April, in Cairo,…

Stephen Glain

The Trouble with the B–B Axis

[caption id="attachment_55241324" align="aligncenter" width="620"] China's Jiang Jemin (L), CEO of CNPC, shakes hands with Dia Jaafar, the head of the Iraqi South Oil Company, as Iraq's oil minister…

Keily Miller

Problems in the Pipeline

[caption id="attachment_55241018" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranians work on a section of the Iran–Pakistan pipeline after the project was launched during a ceremony with presidents of Iran…

Alex Vatanka

Harvesting the Sun and Wind

[caption id="attachment_55240425" align="aligncenter" width="620"] UAE officials look from a balcony at the Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, on March 17, 2013,…

Andrés Cala

Putting Economic Sustainability First

[caption id="attachment_55240043" align="alignnone" width="620"] High-tension electrical power lines dot the desert landscape in this cityscape photo of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, taken in 2008…

Justin Dargin

MENA Enterprise

[caption id="attachment_55239615" align="alignnone" width="594"] An Iraqi boy wearing a Manchester United jersey looks at a toy made by students for a science project exhibition at Al-Mutamayizin…

Mehrunisa Qayyum

Stuck in the Middle

[caption id="attachment_55239097" align="alignnone" width="620"] An Iraqi worker adjusts a control valve at the Daura oil refinery on November 5, 2009, the day Iraq and a grouping of US and European…

Mina Al-Droubi

From Humble Beginnings

[caption id="attachment_55237897" align="alignnone" width="620"] Source: MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] In the year 1963, Egyptian economist Ahmed El-Najjar started a quiet revolution in…

Afshin Molavi

Strange Bedfellows

[caption id="attachment_55236802" align="aligncenter" width="619"] Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (2nd L), the first Turkish premier to visit the autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq, and…

Keily Miller