Volume 2 Issue 13 Egypt, January 2015

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El Sawy Culturewheel all-purpose cultural center

Cairo Fashion Festival 3brought by Souq.com

Cairo Book Fair 2015to Launch 28th January

موبينيل وهواوى تحتفالن بـ12 مليون مشترك في خدمة الكول تون

“دور القطاع الخاص في النمو االقتصادي”

City Business & Technomedia

City Business & Technomedia

City Life

City Travel & Tourism

City Events

NEW EGYPT

Growth

Peace

January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 2City Life

How to create the perfect cat eye for every occasion

Without a doubt, cat eyes are the hot-test trend in eye makeup. Flaring eye-liner out at the outer corner of your eyes accentuates the lash line for a classic, sexy look. Cat eyes or “winged” eyeliner is easier to master than you think. Once you learn the technique, you can use it to fashion a variety of looks from delicate and demure to get-noticed bold. Very little additional makeup is necessary making the style great for hot, sticky summer weather. I prefer to keep my lids bare or just add a simple swipe of shimmery shadow. In this post, I will offer tips to create the perfect cat eye and demonstrate 5 different wearable looks to serve as inspiration. I wear some version of a cat eye almost every day, so I consider myself a bit of an expert!

1. Line the upper lash line including the spaces between the actual lashes (this is called tight lining) from the inner corner of your eye to the outer edge.2. Draw a line up from the outer cor-ner of your eye using the curve of the

By Omnia El Shamy Makeup Artistbottom lash line as a guide. Note the length of this line, to repeat on the other side for symmetry.3. Connect the inner corner of the eye with the top of the line at the outer corner.4. Fill in the shape.Optional: If desired, you can line the bottom lash line as well. I personally prefer for this line to be softer, blend-ing from the outer corner to the cent-er of the eye.

Tips: To clean up mistakes, dip a cot-ton swab in eye makeup remover or a gentle cleanser like Cetaphil and wipe away excess. Dark, thick, sharp lines will create a dramatic look while soft, light, or smudged lines create a more subtle look. Don’t fear the cat eye be-cause you fear it’s too bold; it’s easy to modify. If you struggle with draw-ing straight lines, try this awesome trick using scotch tape. Liner brushes are essential for applying gel, cream, or shadow liners. They are available in pointed, flat, and angled varieties.

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January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 3City Life

El Sawy Culturewheel El Sawy culturewheel (Arabic: ساقية (transliterated: Sakkiat Al-Sawy) ( الصاوىis an all-purpose, private cultural cent-er, located on Gezira Island in the Za-malek district, central Cairo, Egypt.

It is considered one of the most im-portant cultural venues in Egypt. According to Aljazeera, the cent-er gets more than 20000 visitors monthly and its website receives ap-proximately 150000 visitors/month.

El Sawy culturewheel was established

in 2003 by Engineer Mohamed El-Sawy. Prior to its construction, its location, beneath the 15th May Bridge in Zama-lek, was a garbage dump and a shelter for homeless people and drug addicts.

El-Sawy named his center in honor of his father’s — Abdel Moneim El-Sawy, an Egyptian novelist and a for-mer minister of culture — five-part novel series:“El-Sakkia” or(The Wheel).

The center is home for a wide range of activities and cultural events.

Every year, it chooses a main theme for most of its events. The center has organized hundreds of concerts and musical events, including those for oud, jazz, musical theatre, children chorus and performances for sev-eral Egyptian and Arab bands, singers

and entertainers. It also hosts sev-eral seminars, workshops, art exhibi-tions, book fairs and movie shows.

Being the first non-government con-trolled private cultural center in Egypt, its events are claimed to have more freedom and higher quality than those in government-controlled centers.

The Sawy also includes several sections for arts and music training and a num-ber of libraries, including a music library and children’s library. And it offers sev-eral art classes in painting, sculpture, piano and violin for children and youth.

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It is our pleasure to introduce you Free-sia as thefirst English-Arabic social, fashion and lifestyle online magazine. It is named after a delicate and color-fulflower, which symbolizes innocence and thoughtfulness. The magazine main sections deal with fashion, beau-ty, lifestyle, Family, art, culture, Cinema, health care and more. It targets trendy women aged between 16 and 55.

Cairo Fashion Festival 3 - CFF3

On Friday, November 7th 2014 Cairo Festival City (Al Futtaim Group) wit-nessed the grand opening of Cairo Fashion Festival 3 (CFF 3) brought to you by Souq . com. The bazaar opened at 11am to the public with over 50 dif-ferent exhibitors. CFF3 honored de-signer Farida Temraz who is back from London Fashion Week after her first run way show at CFF 2.

This season CFF 3 showcased more designers and more fashion shows: some of the much anticipated design-ers and fashion shows involved in-cluded Deana Shaaban Clothing from ABn’G World as wellas Okhtein Bag Ac-cessories, Norine Farrah, Heba Edris, Alia El- -Nahhas, Iman Saab and Plush. The day started with casual shows courtesy of high -street brands Levis, Timberland, Quicksilver, Rockport, Geox, Vans, Max, US Polo, and Splash.

The next fashion display was indeed a show -stopper by designer Deana Shaaban, who collaborated with ABn’G and showcased their long anticipated collection “Legends of the Fall” which transported guests to a parallel univ-ers ewhere fairytales exist as the mod-els came out in 12 different dresses that were inspired by classic Disney movies!

The haute couture fashion shows start-ed with Jordanian designer Heba Edris,who showed off atimeless collection that any bride should consider. Fol-lowed by Iman Saab who wowed the crowd with her stunning masterpieces.Models were provided by Face to Face Agency by Youssef Spahi and hair & makeup were done by Pacee Luce. Two run way shows were styled spe-cifically for Levi’s, Geox, Timberland, Quiksilver, Vans and Rockport. Other brand sparticipating in the run way shows were MAX and Splash.

A mini -orchestra on the red carpet ser-enaded arriving guests and the Screw-driver band provided entertainment as well as Cadencia band.

The fashion catwalk was a star-stud-ded affair hosted by famous actors Ashraf Hamdi and Amina Khalil.Amina was wearing astunning dress provided by Malak ElEzzawy.

Mona Siag provided jewelry for the designers. Vichi Blog, in association with Fashion Garage awarded the best- dressed male and female guests with a certificate.

Building on CFF’s motives and values of sustainability and encouragement, CFF 3 has partnered with the ultra- exclusive EGO Department Store to of er CFF designers a unique retail space in their store to showcase the design-ers’ productspost- event.

Amidst much fanfare and festivity, Cairo Festival City Mall is celebrating their one- year anniversary throughout the month of November .

International shows, and festivals are planned at the Mall, and on- ground ac-tivations will offer vouchers from se-lect tenants as a sign of appreciation to the Mall’s valuable customers.

The festivities will commence with the launch of Cairo Fashion Festival–Season3,organized and run by Ulti-mate Fashion Wear, to set the tone for the anniversary celebrations.

Freesia online life inspirationThus, it has several social media chan-nels like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube as means of outreach. The reason behind launching a fashion online magazine was the sig-nificant number of internet users in the Arab world according to the latest sta-tistics. It is evident that internet usage as a source of information is currently in upward trend in the Arab world as it is worldwide; this fact gave us a clear indication to the great importance and high market demand for such an on-line media project.

Freesia mission is to connect, inspire and entertain through relevant pre-mium content created for today’s so-phisticated woman. With its proficient reporters and editors who have diver-sified backgrounds and experiences to handle its content. The passionate internet readers and all fashion lovers will surely find on Freesia an enter-tainment they never expected, beside our mobile application that will be launched very soon.www.freesialive.com

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Cairo Book Fair to Launch Professional Program

In early 2015, the Cairo International Book Fair will launch its first-ever pro-fessional program. The program’s set to be held from January 29 through 31, on the eve of the city’s 47th fair.

The Cairo book fair, which boasts two million annual visitors and more than 700 publishers, has seen hard times in the last several years. The fair was cancelled in 2011, and the fairs that followed have each had their organiza-tional challenges.

But Egyptian politics isn’t the only hur-dle facing a professional program in Cairo. A number of international pub-lishers are already attending Arabic-focused book fairs in Sharjah or Abu Dhabi.

But Sherif Bakr, a member of the Egyp-tian Publishers’ Association (EPA), says the Cairo program can work. Bakr is part of an EPA subgroup that has been pushing the new professional pro-gram.

In launching a professional program, Bakr says, Cairo is not aiming to com-pete with the well-funded fairs in Shar-jah or Abu Dhabi. Instead, “we actually hope to cooperate.” The Cairo fair,

which is traditionally held at the end of January and beginning of February, is nestled between the Sharjah (Novem-ber) and Abu Dhabi (April/May) fairs. In this way, Bakr suggested, “It would be another chance for foreign publishers to discover the area with a different taste.”

It’s also true that, while the saying is “Egypt writes, Beirut publishes…,” it is Cairo that has the largest number of publishers in the region. And the Cairo fair, Bakr said, “has a better variety” of publishers, “especially with inde-pendent publishers and newcomers who are really changing the publishing scene in Egypt and the Arab world.”Cairo’s new professional program was first introduced in Frankfurt this year, and Bakr said it’s already generated a lot of interest. Publishers told him, “Fi-nally, we’ve been trying to discover this part of the world but it seems impos-sible.” So, Bakr said, “we are preparing for ‘Mission Impossible’.”Most Arab publishers still focus on the selling as-pect of book fairs, so an international professional program will take some marketing. “But we know the difficul-ties,” Bakr said, “and we are going to do our best to make this an experience not to be forgotten.”

Manial Palace to reopen

At the southern tip of Roda Island stands Manial Palace, an exquisite example of early 20th century architecture.

Ancient pharaoh rises againThe Egyptian government has recently invested heavily into the renovation and restoration of its ancient cultural sites in an effort to turn around an ail-ing economy, traditionally reliant on tourism and struggling to recover in the wake of the Arab Spring. Art Daily reports that two completed projects have been unveiled.

Archaeologists in Luxor presented a restored giant statue depicting the Pharaoh Amenhotep III walking. The statue, which was re-erected at the northern gate of the ruler’s funerary temple, is standing for the first time since crumbling in an earthquake 3,200 years ago. Scientists pieced together the 110-ton statue from 89 chunks and several hundred of fragments. It now stands next to another effigy of the king, unveiled last spring.

“These are up to now the highest standing effigies of an Egyptian king in striding attitude,” Hourig Sourouzian, head of the restoration project, told Art Daily.

Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab un-veiled four newly renovated rooms in the Egyptian Museum’s Tutankhamen gallery in Cairo. The halls feature the boy-king’s mummy alongside various treasures that were excavated from the monarch’s tomb, left untouched until 1922.

James Moran of the EU’s delegation in Cairo told Art Daily that the restoration of the iconic institution “is fundamental for the economy.” The EU has pledged €92,000 ($115,000) towards the rede-velopment of the Egyptian Museum, which holds the largest number of Pharaonic artifacts in the world.

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كوبرى قصر النيل .. األقدم في القاهرة واألجمل في العالم

صالح الدين أبوالليل

بناه )الذي هامن نازيل ق�صر هو النيل ق�صر حممد علي البنته زينب( على �صاحل النيل ...

وقد هدمه �صعيد با�صا فيما بعد ليبني حمله ثكنات علي واطلق . بها الع�صاكر القامة النيل ق�صر �صمي كذلك له ملال�صقته الق�صر ا�صم الكوبري قلب ايل لي�صل الق�صر بجوار مير الذي ال�صارع

ميدان االوبرا بهذا اال�صم " �صارع ق�صر النيل " " و كان العامة يطلقون عليه ا�صم " كوبري ال�صباع ن�صبة ايل االربعه �صباع ) ا�صود ( التي توجد عند ا�صماعيل اخلديوي ان حتي خمارجه و مداخلة ابو لقب عليه اطلق اال�صود هذه بعمل امر الذي

ال�صباع .قرر عندما الكوبرى هذا بناء فكرة بدات وقد من قطعة م�صر تكون ان ا�صماعيل اخلديوى اوروبا ولهذا جاء تفكريه يف اإن�صاء معرب من ميدان االآن يعرف ما وهو ا�صمه الذي حمل اال�صماعيلية النيل، من االأخرى ال�صفة اىل »التحرير« مبيدان كان ذلك عام 1869، وافتتح الكوبري للمرور عام ون�صف اأمتار 10 وعر�ض اأمتار بطول 406 1872

وقد اجلانبني للر�صيفني ون�صف بينها مرتان من ببناء فرن�صية �صركة ا�صماعيل اخلديوي كلف الواقعة واجلزيرة القاهرة بني لريبط الكوبري على ال�صفة االأخرى من النيل، وتكلف ان�صاوؤه 108

اآالف جنيه م�صري .مت ت�صميمه حلمل عربات متتابعة وزن كل منها

مقداره موزعا حمال يحمل اأن اأو اأطنـــــــــــان، 6 400 كيلو مرت مربع و بعد مرور 65 عاما من ان�صائه النيل ق�صر كوبري بتجديد االأول فوؤاد امللك قام واأطلق عليه ا�صم كوبري اخلديوي ا�صماعيل اإحياء يف وراعى م 1931 عام ذللك وكان والده لذكرى اأهمية لينا�صب واجلمالية الفنية الناحية جتديده منارتان مدخليه من كل عند فاأ�صبحت موقعه م�صباح، منها كل راأ�ض على اجلرانيت حجر من واأمامها واحد من االأ�صود االأربعة التي كانت قائمة لتكون بها احتفظ القدمية الكوبري مدخلي على

اأثرا يدل على �صاحب امل�صروع اخلديو ا�صماعيل .

Faces of Egypt

Mes Voyages | Private Drawings

AL Masar Gallery | The Art Lounge is proud to present its First solo exhibi-tion for the pioneering Late Artist Ta-hia Halim. The exhibition showcases 40 scarce signed drawings from the 40’s to 80’s representing the artist’s private collection. The collection dis-played depicts the artist’s memories documented on paper during her vis-its to various countries including Paris, London, Stockholm, Belgrade, and Nubia in South Egypt. Being originally from an aristocratic family from upper Egypt, Halim focused on Nubians and

their daily lives in many of her draw-ings. In this exhibition, Halim used vari-ous medium in her drawings including Gouache, Pen, and Ink lending scarce attention to details.Tahia Halim (b. 1919, Aswan, Egypt) has been a professional artist since the 1930’s making painting her full-time career. Her works are simple & poetic. She is skillful in her mixture of colors and their distribution, creating touches of intensity and boldness in her art-works. Al Masar Gallery has exhibited the artworks of Halim in its previous exhibition titled “Nostalgia” in October 2008. Halim has exhibited both col-lectively and individually since 1942. Some of the most notable collectives were the 1952 and 1960 Venice Bien-nales, and biennales in Sao Paolo, Bra-zil, Alexandria and Egypt. The Guggen-heim Museum in New York acquired Halim’s painting “Hanan” ;Compassion, for which she won the 1958 prize, as well as others of her paintings.

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If you take a look at your life to evaluate what you’ve accomplished, would you be proud of the life you’ve lived so far?

So many people claim that they are too busy at work that they can’t find time and energy to do what they want in life.

You wish to find a secret formula to balance life and work. You wish to live a bigger life and broaden your experiences, but you are totally stressed and out of balance.

When you turn to experts for a work/life balance advice, you usually get this answer:

“You must learn how to separate work from life”

For me this is B.S.The legendary Steve Jobs of Apple said, “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”

The Work/Life Balance Myth

So the advice of separating work from life is not practical and is pure non-sense.Here’s the secret...

You must live an integrated life

Everything you do should be an integral part of your passion, personality and lifestyle.

This way your work will give you positive energy that extends to other areas of your life. And when you live and work with passion, you live an integrated life that you don’t want to separate its parts.

Think integration, not separation! When you do work you love and have a great cause to live for, your life becomes integrated. Work becomes part of your life and your life becomes part of your work.

Everything you do has its role in the bigger meaning and purpose of your life. That’s the real balance.

Oh, sorry! I mean integration.

التعاون ثمار للعمالء خدمة اأف�صل امل�صرتك بني موبينيل وهواوى

التليفون خلدمات امل�صرية ال�صركة احتفلت يف الرائدة هواوي، و�صركة )موبينيل( املحمول خدمة تعزيز بنجاح االت�صاالت، حلول توفري موبينيل عمالء بتجربة واالرتقاء تون”، “الكول من خالل توفري مميزات جديدة مبتكرة وواجهات

عمالء �صهلة للخدمة. نايل �صيزونز الفور بفندق ال�صحفي املوؤمتر اأقيم واالإعالم ال�صحافة بالزا، وح�صره عدد كبري من

، ف�صاًل عن كبار م�صئويل ال�صركتني.“الكول خدمة يف نوعية هواوىبنقلة قامت وقد اقوى نظام على تعتمد مبوبينيل اخلا�صة تون” التحديث وبهذا عرو�صها. قاعدة لزيادة وا�صرع اأكرث ب�صورة اخلدمة تقدمي من موبينيل متكنت تت�صمن كثرية وعرو�ض لال�صتخدام، �صهولة حملية اأغنية 30.000 من اكرث حتميل امكانية النغمات اإر�صال مثل اخرى وخدمات وعاملية، الدينية اال�صالمية وامل�صيحية . باالإ�صافة اإىل ذلك، برقم االت�صال خالل من موبينيل لعمالء ميكن وملفات االأغاين الأحدث التحديثات تلقي ،9999رد وانتظار االت�صال اثناء واال�صتمتاع املو�صيقى

الطرف االخر.

حليم اأ�صرف املهند�ض �صرح املنا�صبة وبهذه ان التجاري للقطاع موبينيل �صركة رئي�ض نائب ب�صمعة امل�صئولية توليها منذ ا�صتهرت “موبينيل االت�صاالت. تكنولوجيا خدمات جمال يف طيبة لتطوير هواوي �صركة اختيار مت ال�صبب، ولهذا خدمات موبينيل مثل خدمة “الكول تون” اعتمادا اأحدث احللول يف جمال تكنولوجيا املعلومات على اىل املتطورة احللول هذه اأدت وقد واالت�صاالت. الف 700 من امل�صرتكني عدد يف هائلة زيادة يف م�صرتك مليون 12 اإىل 2010 عام م�صرتك من اأقل يف ٪500 بن�صبة زيادة ميثل مما ،2014نوعية فى التحول جناح يثبت مما �صنوات، 4

اخلدمات املقدمة مل�صرتكينا”. بوب ال�صيد/ قال املنا�صبة، هذه على وتعليقًا هواوى - الناقلة ال�صبكات قطاع ق�صم زاورئي�ض �صريك موبينيل م�صر“تعترب تكنولوجيز الدعم بتقدمي نت�صرف واإننا ا�صرتاتيجيورئي�صي، امل�صتمر متا�صيًا مع روؤيتها واأهدافها. ففي دي�صمرب “الكول خدمة من�صة بتغري هواوى قامت ،2010ثرية جتربة من اال�صتفادة بهدف ملوبينيل تون” يف هواوي �صركة و�صت�صتمر للعمالء. اكرث ممتعة واأحدث الرقمية املو�صيقى لتوفري موبينيل دعم تقنيات اجليل القادم من حلول �صبكات االت�صاالت

موبينيل وهواوىتحتفالن بـ 12 مليون مشترك في خدمة الكول تون

حنفي”: يناير المقبل ستنتهي الوزارة من تطبيق منظومة”الخبز الجديدة في جميع المحافظات

اأكد وزير التموين والتجارة الداخلية، خالد حنفي، اأن اجلولة التي قام بها الرئي�ض ال�صي�صي اإىل اأوروبا زيارة مثل ناجحة كانت املا�صي، االأ�صبوع خالل

الواليات املتحدة االأمريكية موؤخرًا.واأ�صاف حنفي خالل موؤمتر �صحفي نظمته �صركة عنوان حتت اليوم، �صباح اإم”، تي جي “املال اأن االقت�صادي”، النمو يف اخلا�ض القطاع “دور واالإقليمي الرئي�صي مكانها اإىل دولة م�صر عادت

يف املنطقة العربية بعد زيارة م�صر اإىل اأوروبا.اأبواب فتح على تعمل احلكومة اأن حنفي وتابع وحتالفات ا�صرتاتيجية مع رجال االأعمال االأجانب،

بداًل عن فكرة املنح وغريها.وم�صى يقول حنفي: “بور�صة �صيكاغوو �صتاأتي اإىل م�صر خالل االأ�صابيع املقبلة، وذلك الأن املرا�صالت

مع هذه البور�صة م�صتمرة اإىل االآن”.اجلديدة اخلبز منظومة اأن اإىل حنفي واأ�صار نفذت احلكومة اأن م�صيفًا منتظم، ب�صكل ت�صري االآن جاري واأنه حمافظة، 20 يف املنظومة هذه تنفيذ املنظومة يف الـ 7 حمافظات االأخرى، قائاًل: جميع يف اجلديدة اخلبز منظومة من “�صننتهي يوجد ال واأنه املقبل.. يناير اأول يف املحافظات

م�صاكل لدى الوزارة يف هذه املنظومة”.

Technology for EbolaThe Minister of Communications and Information Technology Atef Helmy took part at the workshop about the role of technology to fight Ebola virus disease. The workshop is organized by the Technology Innovation and En-trepreneurship Center (TIEC), in part-nership with the Egyptian Agency for Africa Development and Microsoft 4Afrika.

It also focuses on the role of software and applications innovation to fight the disease currently spread in several West African countries. The workshop included an introduction to the latest data and information on Ebola virus and rate of propagation and endemic areas.

This is in addition to the technology challenges facing the software and ap-plications innovation participating ef-ficiently in fighting the disease. Many West African countries suffer from Eb-ola virus, like: Guinea, Sierra Leone, Li-beria and is likely to outbreak in Nigeria.

TIEC is to organize another workshop soon including meetings with special-ists and experts from multinationals to discuss the different technological innovations to fight the disease like cloud computing, searching for social data, internet of things, effects of the transmission of human groups, robots, scientific clouds.

This is in addition to a closure work-shop to highlight the main inventions predicting the disease patterns, the effective diffusion of vaccines, the fastest techniques to plan and imple-ment the measures to fight the disease resulting from the previous workshop.

By Mohamed Tohami Egypt’s #1 motivation expert

City Sports & Fitness January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 8

GBI [Global Biking Initiative] Team members have been exploring the world on a bike since 2009 and crossed 17 countries worldwide on their bicycles.

GBI teams exist in 25 countries and lead by Egypt and Germany, and are having three main cycling tours this year, the first one in Egypt in Jan from Aswan to Luxor, and the second in Middle East from Amman to Sharm, and the third in Europe from Venice to Stuttgart crossing Italy, Switzerland, Li-chtenstein, Austria and Germany.

Why bicycle is the best tool to explore the world with? If you crossed cities or countries by car you will see things from a distance and will not touch the

KingFut.com can exclusively reveal that 19-year old Egyptian right-back Mohamed El-Hadidy has signed for Spanish side CF Trival Valderas Alcorcon on a free transfer from the youth team of ENPPI. Having played for Al-Mareekh of Port Said before moving to ENPPI, in a transfer that cost around 40,000 EGP (5,000 Euros), Mohamed El-Hadidy then played for the petroleum club for five consecutive seasons and joined the U-20 national team of Egypt on several occasions. El-Hadidy is being managed the famous Egyptian agent Ahmed Sweilam, who was the one who introduced him to CF Trival Valderas Alcorcon. The technical staff of the Madrid-based club were

EXCLUSIVE: Egyptian youngsterMohamed El-Hadidy signs for Madrid side Alcorcon

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highly impressed with El-Hadidy’s performance during his trials in Spain, which made them send the player an official invitation to undergo another trial that lasted for a month, and was concluded with successful medical tests and the signing of the contract.“I am looking forward to achieving huge success with my new club, the league here is so challenging and competitive as we play against the reserve team of Atletico Madrid (Atletico Madrid B) and other big clubs, and I’m aiming to make an attractive introduction for myself in Spain as a professional footballer, and I will hopefully do my best to help my team gain promotion,” El-Hadidy exclusively told KingFut’s Ziad Ibrahim.

Kareem Hossam: It’s all About Sand

The Start, Sand boarding is one of the fastest spreading sports in Egypt now-adays. It’s an eco-sport practiced over the sand dunes through the desert that has attracted so many Egyptians from different ages. The founder of this sport in Egypt is Kareem Hossam, 26 years old( Team Leader of Dune Raider Egypt), He won the 2nd level as an amateur in the Championship took place last August in State of Oregon, United states of America, After that he was trained to be the first certified Egyptian Sand Boarder and nowhe is the first Egyptian to be registered in “ Dune Rider International” for sand-

boarding as an Instructor and Interna-tional Judge.

Dune Raider ( the DRI sole representa-tive in Egypt and Middle East) is host-ing DRI Sand Boarding World Tour 2015 within its Adventure and Eco sport Festival “RUSH” . Dune Raider has invited 30 international sand-boarders to compete in the sand-boarding inter-national championship.Rush is the first Festival of its kind that will gather many adventure and eco sports activities in the same venue and will be held inFayoum, Egypt dur-ing the period of 2-4 April 2015.

couture of these places, and if you went for a walking tour you will see few places. On a bike you can cover several cities and cross 10th of kilom-eters per day touching every small piece on the road and experiencing the people couture and behaviors and interacting with them, you will stop by any place you like and have a photo or chat with the local people and play with the kids.

It is a new traveling experience that you must seize; it is a life time experi-ence.

Follow the trainings and tours details with GBI through Facebook.com/GBI-EgyptTeam

Explore the world on a bicycle

Omar Samra reaches South Pole

Omar Samra is proud to announce, that on 29 December, after crossing 111km, he skied to the last degree of the South Pole to raise Egypt’s flag. This accomplishment brings him one step closer to achieving his overall goal of completing the “Adventurers Grand Slam”.

Along with a team of eleven other adventurers who hail from Germany, Russia and India, Samra started his trek from the 89th degree. Every day the team would ski between seven to nine

hours, and cross roughly a distance of 14km to 16km, depending on weather conditions.September to March are considered Antarctica’s summer months, the sun is consistently above the horizon. It never gets that high in the sky at the South Pole though, reaching a maxi-mum height of 23 degrees. Much of the sunlight the Pole does get is im-mediately reflected upward because of the white snow. This phenomenon, along with the altitude (about 2800 metres) is what makes the South Pole one of the coldest places on Earth.“It was a rough start for me at the be-ginning,” Samra said. “I had a stomach microbe causing me severe pains; and I was on antibiotics for five days, which affected my performance early on; especially, that we had to pull sleds weighing 80kg throughout our jour-ney. However, as I improved, I started building more stamina and was able to make it. With this achievement close to the New Year, I hope that 2015 will be a good year for Egypt and for eve-ryone who is passionate to pursue his dreams.

City Youth January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 9

17 countries represented at RiseUp Summit 2014

Representatives and delegations from 17 different countries where partici-pating at the RiseUp Summit, Egypt’s largest gathering for the entrepre-neurship ecosystem, which took place this year from October 12th – 14th at The GrEEK Campus in downtown Cai-ro. The countries represented where the UK, Austria, the Netherlands, Ger-many, Turkey, Denmark, Tunisia, Mo-rocco, Rwanda, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and India. The individuals and groups from these countries where participating as a variety of different

organizations including co-working spaces, investment funds, incubators and consultants.

Investor delegations included repre-sentatives from Playfair Capital in the UK, Hoxton Ventures in the UK, 3ts Capital in Turkey, and Venture Scout in Denmark. They were participating in a one-day pitching event, the Investor Lounge, organized by StartUp MENA, aiming to promote Egyptian start-ups to international investors. These start-ups had the opportunity to pitch live on stage in front of a panel of sea-soned investors, including ten of the biggest European VCs. “Sustainability is one of the primary challenges for entrepreneurs today,” said Ahmed El Afli, investor. “The path to success is a difficult o ne, and entrepreneurs need to learn to col-laborate, interact and network in order to build and sustain their businesses. What we were seeing here at the Ri-seUp Summit in Cairo is so refreshing and inspiring, and gives us a tremen-

dous feeling of hope and positivity for this region’s entrepreneurs and youth.” There were 15 different co-working spaces from Egypt and around the world attending the Co-Working Know-How Camp from October 10th – 16th, where participants were help-ing each other to succeed in making co-working a more sustainable busi-ness.

“We’re excited to be here in Egypt, at this incredible gathering for entrepre-neurs,” said Georg Demmer, founder of Austria’s Co-Space. “The future of entrepreneurship is going to be in-creasingly about collaboration and

interdependence among not just the entrepreneurs themselves, but the en-tire ecosystem of partners, investors, mentors and service providers. That’s why co-working spaces play a critical role in supporting and developing en-trepreneurship around the world.”

The summit’s opening took place on Sunday, 12th of October. The two-day agenda was held on October 13th and 14th and included over 40 workshops, 16 panel discussions, three round ta-bles, four keynote speeches, in addi-tion to pitch events, talks and the IN-JAZ Trade Fair.

City Cars January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 10

Cars Worth Waiting For: 2015–2018

Hyundai ix35 Highlander

WHAT IT ISThe eagerly awaited bazooka version of the third-generation Cadillac CTS, designed to fight for America’s honor against its European competitors. Un-fortunately, this time around, there won’t be a station wagon or a coupe—or a manual option. That’s a crime, but the automatic sedan is what sells.

WHY IT MATTERSThe first two generations of this velvet Vette have given Cadillac credibility among enthusiasts. The next one will sand down the few rough edges of its predecessors. The CTS-V is a halo car for the brand and for GM as a whole.

PLATFORMBroadly speaking, the CTS-V will use the ATS/CTS “Alpha” architecture, but

Hyundai no longer needs to prove with the ix35 but with this new model, Hyundai not only claims that it is offer-ing quality for a low price, but it would also have us believe that the ix35 of-fers SUV looks and ability, compact MPV practicality and small hatchback levels of affordability. If you believe its maker, this is not simply a compact SUV but a crossover vehicle.

The ix35 is clearly designed to appeal to style-conscious buyers, whichever demographic they fall into. The first Hyundai model to showcase the com-pany’s ‘fluidic’ design language, the

Cadillac CTS-V 2016 Cadillacwith more aluminum onboard.

POWERTRAINPower will come from a supercharged V-8, most likely the 6.2-liter LT4 from the new Corvette Z06. It will make at least 600 horsepower and send the squawk to the rear tires through GM’s new eight-speed automatic.

COMPETITIONAudi S6/S7/RS7, BMW M5/M6 Gran Coupe, Jaguar XFR, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG.WHAT MIGHT GO WRONGThe lack of coupe and wagon variants may put off the hard core. And the 420-hp Vsport could make the CTS-V a harder sell

BMW X5 & X6 M 2015

WHAT IT ISUltra-powerful M versions of the new X5 and X6. They’ll be stronger than ever and exude even more menace in their restyling.

WHY IT MATTERSPurists winced when these utes’ 2.5-ton predecessors appeared almost as mockeries of the street-legal racers once turned out by BMW’s M shop. Purists are still wincing, but heresy can be both fun and profitable.

PLATFORMThe X5 M and X6 M share many part

numbers with their non-M variants but come only with four-wheel drive and a heavily tweaked chassis.

POWERTRAINThe sole engine offering is a 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8. Horsepower will hit about 600, and an eight-speed auto-matic is standard.

COMPETITIONJeep Grand Cherokee SRT, Land Rov-er Range Rover Sport Supercharged, Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG, Porsche Cayenne Turbo, another staffer for your Russian security team.

car’s angular grille is a particularly dis-tinctive feature, and to our eyes it suits the ix35 very well.

There is a pronounced sporty stance to the ix35. Its tapering side windows and roofline are designed to create a coupé look, and the sharply defined headlights and bonnet strakes are also intended to give the car a more ag-gressive character. It represents a bold leap forward from the often bland styl-ing practiced by Hyundai before, and makes it clear that the ix35 is a revo-lution next to the Tucson, its distinctly forgettable predecessor.

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January 2015 Volume 2 Issue 13 11City Properties

139bn Euro Investment ProjectsInvestor sentiment in Egyptian real estate has been boosted despite the current political situation, leading to €139bn-worth of development pro-jects being scheduled for 2015.

The Middle East business intelligence service MEED reported a remarkable pick-up in Egypt’s economic develop-ment over the next two to three years in infrastructure, banking, real estate, power, petrochemicals and manufac-turing sectors.

Foreign firms continue to maintain their presence in Egypt with an influx of investment continuously pouring into the country, increasing its attrac-tiveness to foreign and regional banks and high net worth individuals scour-ing the country for new opportunities for investment or expansion.

In response to increased investor in-terest, the Egyptian government has introduced new investment laws to ease doing business in the country and to continue to woo investors in the hopes of sustaining the country’s stability. Continued investment in real estate and housing markets reinforce the firm foundation of optimism for in-creasing the level of participation in the Egyptian economy.

“As Egypt turns the tide on the chal-lenges of the past few years, the coun-try is returning as a key investment hub for GCC and global investors alike - a development for which EFG Hermes is well-prepared - and as a firm with strong Egyptian roots and a broad, established regional presence, EFG Hermes is uniquely positioned to

facilitate intra-regional investment op-portunities,” said EFG Hermes co-chief executive, Karim Awad.

Commenting on the notable increase in business confidence, Ahmed Abde-laal, regional head of corporate bank-ing and structured finance for HSBC Middle East and North Africa said:

“Egypt’s strategic geographic loca-tion and open trade hub continue to be key drivers for the economy going forward. According to our latest Trade Confidence Index, businesses in Egypt are very confident about import and export trade over the next few months – ranking highest amongst all 23 coun-tries surveyed across the globe. This is a positive indicator of Egypt’s antici-pated economic growth and showcas-es the country’s strong fundamentals and potentials. HSBC remains optimis-tic about Egypt’s long-term potential and the country continues to feature as one of the bank’s key markets for focus and investment.”

Despite major political, economic and social transformations, Egypt has the basic foundations for economic stabil-ity and is rapidly emerging as an invest-ment market with enormous potential.

شريف سامي”: التمويل العقاري ليس موجها اآلن”لـ “السكن” فقط وإنما ألغراض تجارية وخدمية

“رئي�ض الرقابة املالية”: جاري حاليًا تعديل التاأمني لقانون �صناديق التنفيذية الالئحة

اخلا�صة�صريف املالية، للرقابة العامة الهيئة رئي�ض قال االآن ُمــوجــهــًا لي�ض الــعــقــاري التمويل اإن �صامي، الأغــرا�ــض اأ�صبح واإمنـــا ، فقط ال�صكن الأغــرا�ــض

اإن�صاء املباين التجارية واخلدمية واالإدارية.“املال �صركة نظمته موؤمتر خالل �صامي واأ�صاف جي تي اإم”، اليوم، حتن عنوان “الروؤية امل�صتقبلية اأن م�صر”، يف املــ�ــصــريف غــري املــــايل لــلــقــطــاع الت�صريعات اجلديدة التي دخلت على قانون التمويل مت حيث من التمويل يف التو�صع اأتاحت العقاري، واالإيــجــار واملــرابــحــة، امل�صاركة عقود ا�صتحداث بالتمويل ال�صماح اإىل باالإ�صافة بالتملك، املنتهي

العقاري يف حالة حق االنتفاع.التنفيذية الالئحة تعديل حاليًا جــاري اأنــه وتابع اأنه مو�صحًا اخلا�صة، التاأمني �صناديق لقانون اال�صتثمار خالل لوزير الالئحة اإر�صال هذه �صيتم

االأيام اجلارية.التاأمني �صناديق ا�صتثمارات اأن �صامي واأو�ــصــح جنيه، مليار 40 عــن َتــزيــد الــدولــة، يف اخلا�صة اأنه جاري واأنها موجودة يف 610 �صندوق، م�صيفًا اأوجــه يف االأمـــوال توظيف جمــاالت تطوير حاليًا

يف هــام م�صتثمر باعتبارها املختلفة اال�صتثمار ال�صوق امل�صرية.

التعديالت اأبـــرز مــن “اأن �صامي: يقول وم�صى ال�صنة املا�صية، تفعيل �صناديق التي حدثت خالل تي�صري جتميع على تعمل التي العقاري، اال�صتثمار عقارية، مــ�ــصــروعــات اإىل وتوجيهها ــرات ــدخ املباالإ�صافة اإىل تعديل قواعد القيد يف البور�صة التي تتيح طرح وتداول �صركات جديدة فور تاأ�صي�صها”.

ت�صريعات يف طفرة حــدث اأنــه اإىل �صامي واأ�ــصــار ت�صريعات اأبـــرزهـــا كـــان املــا�ــصــي ــام ــع ال تخ�ض �صوق من بداية امل�صرفية غري املالية اخلدمات املال مرورًا بالتمويل العقاري، والتاأجري التمويلي، االأمر الذي يتيح الكثري من االأدوات املالية وو�صائل العام القطاع بها ياأخذ اأن ميكن التي التمويل

واخلا�ض يف متويل م�صروعات جديدة .

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