Time will only tell what effect this week's court ruling freezing Egyptian gas exports to Israel will imply, reports Sherine Nasr

Magda Shahin writes on the arrival of three major US financing agencies onto the Egyptian scene

Integration is the most fervently negotiated term in Arab gatherings yet the least applied in reality, reports Sherine Nasr

Last week the government announced proposed legislation which would allow for the distribution of shares of some of the public sector companies to the population, free of charge. Al-Ahram Weekly sounds out the opinion of experts and the average citizen who is the primary target of the proposed legislation....

Citizens reacted to the proposed plan to give them free shares in public sector companies with disbelief, confusion and amusement, Niveen Wahish reports