Egypt's struggling factories fight for survival

Around 11,000 factories nationwide are now classified as "distressed". Their survival hinges on swift and targeted intervention, which the government is attempting to do.

Marcelle Nasr

Driving their own Destiny

[caption id="attachment_55243065" align="alignnone" width="620"] cars on the bridge, connecting the northern and the southern parts of Tunis, in La Goulette near Tunis. FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images[…

Mehrunisa Qayyum

As Venezuela, so Iran?

[caption id="attachment_55243022" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) waves alongside Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Elias Jaua (C-R) outside of the…

Andrés Cala

Borrowed Success

[caption id="attachment_55242833" align="alignnone" width="620"] Egyptian shopkeepers stand in a passageway in the souk of Khan Al-Khalili in Cairo, Egypt. (ED GILES/Getty Images)[/caption] The…

Stephen Glain

A Paltry Inheritance

[caption id="attachment_55242269" align="aligncenter" width="620"] People seen shopping outside Tehran's main bazaar on June 2, 2013 in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Kaveh Kazemi/Getty Images)[/caption…

Ahmad Seyf

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