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

Libya’s Cursed Wealth

[caption id="attachment_55233273" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An armed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter provides security inside the Zawiya Oil Refinery, some 40 km west of Tripoli,…

Paula Mejia

Hedging Bets

[caption id="attachment_55232601" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Riyadh by night - Saudi's economy must diversify to sustain itself in the long term[/caption]Saudi Arabia’s role as a leading…

Paula Mejia

Credit Egypt

[caption id="attachment_55232311" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A man walks with his bread bought from Magra El-Oyoun market on January 24, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt."][/caption] A decade ago,…

Stephen Glain

The Spoils of Oil

[caption id="attachment_55231910" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="An Iraqi petroleum worker walks past a gas burn off flame in the Anzalla oil fields in the Ninewa Province of Northern Iraq"…

Amy Myers Jaffe and Keily Miller

The Blind Leading the Blind

[caption id="attachment_55231770" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A Tunisian vendor sells dried fruit before an election poster in Tunis"][/caption] A year after the revolution in Tunisia…

Paula Mejia

The Price of Union

[caption id="attachment_552305" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Robert Cianflone/Getty Images"][/caption] The six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have emerged as influential…

Kristian Coates Ulrichsen

Back in Business

[caption id="attachment_55229758" align="aligncenter" width="586" caption="Tunisia’s Minister of Tourism, Elyes Fakhfakh, recently signed a cooperation agreement with the UNWTO "][/caption]The World…

Daniel F. Rivera Gómez

Sanctioning Iran

[caption id="attachment_55229380" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Protesters in Berlin against military action in Iran (PA)"][/caption] The United Nations and its individual members…

Richard Weitz

Up and Coming

[caption id="attachment_55229238" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="The Saudi Stock Exchange hopes one day to compete with major markets"][/caption] The last year has been difficult for Gulf…

Paula Mejia

Egypt’s IMF Lifeline

[caption id="attachment_55229024" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Egyptians demonstrate on 25 January 2011, carrying banners to protest against the government, unemployment and about the…

Paula Mejia