Andrew Bossone
Reporter. In addition to writing for Al-Masry Al-Youm English Edition, Andrew is a contributor to National Geographic News and a part-time professor of journalism at the American University in Cairo (AUC). He has written political and economic analysis for the Economist Intelligence Unit, launched a local technology magazine, and founded programs at AUC dedicated to fostering interculturalism and diversity. He received a master's from the Medill School of Journalism, where he specialized in broadcast and religion. At Temple University he studied broadcast journalism with a minor in business administration.
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A subsidiary of local internet provider LINKdotNET recently launched a website designed to facilitate the legal downloading of Egyptian movies. This, however, may do little to change the culture of file sharing.
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The Egyptian government released this week its latest figures on poverty in Egypt and the signs are not good. The poverty rate reached 23.4 percent in 2008/09, up from 20 percent the previous year, says the government. Members of parliament, however...
Egypt's Ministry of Investment, in partnership with the European Commission, has hired the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to study its current investment policies and issue recommendations on how to improve the country'...
Thousands of artifacts are now returning to Egypt from abroad, but one piece continues to elude decades of government calls for its return: the famous bust of Nefertiti.
The bust has become such a contentious symbol that a copy of it is now part of...
After a year of slow sales, the Egyptian automotive market bounced back in the beginning of 2010.
The total number of automobiles sold in January increased by 63 percent compared with the same period the previous year--from 10,765 to 17,551 units....
The Arab African International Bank (AAIB) is the first Egyptian financial institution to adopt the Equator Principles, a set of voluntary guidelines to ensure that banks lend money in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. AAIB signed...
The 4,200-year-old burial chamber of Queen Behenu has been discovered in Saqqara in Giza.
French archaeologists digging in the necropolis of Pepi I discovered the tomb with an intact sarcophagus and a set of Pyramid Texts belonging to the queen, who...
Dark, black kohl surrounded the eyes of ancient Egyptians for beauty and protection, but were they using toxic lead in their make-up?
A recent study in France says it's likely ancient Egyptians used lead-based make-up for the kohl that decorated...
Abu Simbel--Outside the Great Temple of Abu Simbel, a long line of people are waiting for a first chance to glimpse the sun's rays as they fall on the faces of the statues of Pharaoh Ramses II, and the gods of creation and light, Ptah, Amen and Heru...
Alexandria--In a few weeks, Monaco, the largest manufacturer of processed pork products in Egypt, will run out of its stock of frozen meat, effectively eliminating the final remnants of the local pork industry.
Rolando Monaco, who inherited the 74-...
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