Tapping the potential offered by the 96.5 per cent of Egypt's land area which as yet remains uncultivated and undeveloped, has become the task to which the government has so far committed more than $200m in investment, with the aim of encouraging the private sector to invest a great deal more....more

UNDER EXPANSION
Never a dull moment  May 11

THE MODERN METROPOLIS
Chaotic quilt of contrasts  May 11

PORTS
New life for the marine sector  May 11

WOMEN
Pioneer makes rights a reality  May 11

THE RICH
Echoes of a pharaonic past  May 11

POVERTY
Rooms at the bottom  May 11

BELLY DANCING
Centuries of culture in tinselled lycra  May 11