Articles tagged with: sawaris
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Thursday, 24 May, 2012
Yesterday I paid a courtesy call on Naguib Sawiris, the forlorn face of non-Islamist Egypt.
Naguib is one of three brothers, the sons of a successful Coptic businessman, though he staked out a fortune of his own by taking bets in the telecommunications industry that no one else could stomach. On a table in his office antechamber is a framed photograph of him strolling along a marble corridor with Kim Jong Il, the late dictator of North Korea, where his company installed a cell phone netwo...
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Wednesday, 11 Jan, 2012
Reporters are forever on the hunt for “real people” in their quest to unpick the fabric of a country. But where are they? How do they think and live? And in the case of Egypt, who are the so-called real people who will decide the fate of the Arab world’s most influential country?
The Egyptian uprising was in many ways driven by the young, liberal and often secular types who co-ordinated the insurrection from their laptops and Twitter accounts. Yet in reality—as the non-religious p...
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