Egypt’s new Capital a game changer
Cairo might look very different in the coming decade as the new administrative capital is set to take a lot...
Infrastructure
Iran to build Iraq’s first foreign university of medical sciences
Iran is planning to build Iraq’s first ever foreign University of Medical Sciences, Iranian deputy minister of health Bagher Larijani...
Property sales in Lebanon are on the rise
The property market has witnessed an improvement in the number of recorded sales transactions during the first half of the...
Egypt’s first electric train project will cost $1.4 billion
Egypt’s first electric train, linking between Salam City on the outskirts of Cairo with the country’s anticipated new administrative capital,...
Qatar and Oman key drivers of construction growth in the MENA region
Qatar and Oman remain growth outperformers in the MENA region over 2017 and are key drivers of our overall regional...
Chinese equipment manufacturers expand in the Middle East
After weathering the recent dip in the Middle East’s construction and equipment sector, Chinese manufacturers have settled on a path...
Airport redevelopment part of Bahrain’s wider infrastructure push
Bahrain’s Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications in June selected French technology company Thales and Switzerland’s telecoms services firm SITA as...
Egypt on the road to macroeconomic stability
Euromonitor International’s Egypt Economy, Finance and Trade Country Briefing focuses on one of the Arab world’s largest and most populous...
Abu Dhabi fund grants $1 billion for projects in Egypt
The Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD) has provided a total of Dh4 billion ($1.08 billion) worth of grants and...
Heat stress key concern as infrastructure spend in GCC to top $280 billion by 2018
With the Middle East and North Africa’s infrastructure spend set to top $280 billion by 2018, heat stress remains a...
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