Pushing personal loans
Need a loan? You could try a bank. Yasser Sobhi finds it is not that simple

Toshka is TOPs
Egypt's project to cultivate a part of the south-eastern desert is a source of national pride on many counts, argues Ali El-Samman

Rethinking globalisation
Mounir Zahran finds globalisation a very mixed bag

Briefs
The Suez Canal Authority (SCA) will not be raising its tolls in 2003, for the seventh year running...