Ras El-Hekma: Has Egypt Sold its Land to the UAE?
Suleima Faraj 2024-03-07
In 2024, unidentified leaks brought to light Egypt's transaction involving the sale of Ras El-Hekma City to Emirati investors for...
Egypt : No transparency in Gulf investment deals
Alternative Policy Solutions 2024-03-07
The Ras al-Hikma deal exemplifies two features that have characterized privatization deals in Egypt since 2022: Gulf states’ acquisition of...
El-Sissi and Resource Management in Egypt
Ali Al-Raggal 2022-03-27
Under the pretext of the weakness and flaccid structures of the state's civil institutions and their inefficiency compared with the...
The Resurgent “Arab Economy” of Palestine
Raja Al-Khalidi 2021-05-30
The fact that the latest struggle has brought 1948 in all its political, social and geographic dimensions back into the...
Lebanon’s Financial Collapse Traps Yemeni Banks’ Money
2020-05-19
In January 2020, demonstrators heckled a delegation of bankers leaving Lebanon’s central bank. This was not an uncommon occurrence –...
Work: Democratise, Decommodify, Remediate
2020-05-16
More than 3,000 researchers from universities around the globe issued an urgent call to heed the lessons of the COVID-19...
Tunisia: “Geographies of Anger” and Fear for the Future
Fouad Ghorbali 2019-10-05
How does the authority control the "margin" through its mechanisms of repression and with the support of corrupted systems? The...
Algeria: Informal Economy and the Black Market of the Economic Decision-Making
Yassine Temlali 2019-09-11
The "secret economy" has acted as both an instant and dangerous solution, exploited by political regimes to mitigate the social...
The Bazaar Trade in Algeria’s Cities and Villages
Mohammad Marwani 2019-09-04
Many of the “disorganized” merchants rejected the attempts of the municipal officials to integrate them into the organized "trade centers"...