ISTANBUL/ AP With summer drawing to a close, Turkey is counting the cost of a tough year that saw a string of terrorist bombings and the fallout from a diplomatic spat with Moscow that cut deep into the country’s crucial tourist trade. And then right bang in the middle of summer, the economic backdrop got more precarious after an …

  Emirates Business Cairo Now! A City Incomplete captures for the first time under one roof the Egyptian capital’s current design landscape and celebrates innovation and emerging talent in the fields of product, furniture, graphic and typeface design as well as architecture. Curated by Cairo-based architect, independent researcher and writer Mohamed Elshahed, Over 65 Egyptian architects, designers, entrepreneurs and graphic …

  DUBAI / Emirates Business The UAE government can save nearly USD 5 billion if the country undergoes full digital transformation, industry experts announced ahead of GITEX Technology Week 2016. Government digital transformation can save 1.3 percent of GDP, according to a recent report by consultants Deloitte. Extrapolating to World Bank figures that show the UAE’s GDP was USD 370 …