Privatising utilities -- almost
Water and waste water services will soon be up for grabs. Niveen Wahish anticipates the flow

Tapping the global economy
What accounts for the sudden surge in interest in Libya's once closed economy? In Tripoli, Gamal Nkrumah finds out

From bad to worse
Following another slow week at the stock market, Sherine Abdel-Razek ponders whether things could get any worse

'Men must make a living'
In one of the nation's largest concentrations of quarries, workers eke out a living. Scaling the limestone hills of Minya, Fatemah Farag investigates the condition of labour in the quarries

Beef ban
FOLLOWING the announcement of a four-week ban on livestock imports from Western Europe, due to the reappearance of mad cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopthy known as BSE), sales of imported meat dropped dramatically reports Mona El-Fiqi.

New oil for old
Sherine Nasr investigates an initiative by the petroleum sector to recycle waste oil

Supportive policies
Government business