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Government reforms have helped, but it is innovation that has made Mohammed Farid Khamis, founder and CEO of Oriental Weavers Carpet Co. in Cairo, the Pharaoh of Egyptian exporters. Starting with a single loom in 1980, he has become the leading producer of machine-woven carpets in the world. From a string of factories in the industrial 10th of Ramadan City, 34 miles northeast of Cairo, Oriental Weavers ships 70 million sq. ft. of carpets a year, yielding $280 million in revenues. Its customers include such retailers as Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Ikea and Carrefour. With 63% of the shares...
...with each slide on screen for just 20 seconds. Top names, the quickfire pace and, it must be said, plenty of alcohol make Pecha Kucha events a must for anyone interested in their local style scene. "You've really got to be there to get the atmosphere," says co-founder Mark Dytham, who describes the intimacy of these gatherings as "like the Internet in reverse." Dytham and partner Astrid Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years...
...Muslims earn less than $6 a month, versus 22% of Hindus, and 30% of Muslims are illiterate, versus 19% of Hindus. Muslims make up 13% of the population, yet only 3% of government employees are Muslim. Of course, there are plenty of economic success stories among Muslims. Azim Premji, founder of the outsourcing giant Wipro Technologies, is India's richest resident. But many Muslims are alienated by the consumerism of the new India and feel excluded from the boom. According to the government's surveys, only 27% of Muslims have a salaried job compared to 43% of Hindus...
...with each slide on screen for just 20 seconds. Top names, the quickfire pace and, it must be said, plenty of alcohol make Pecha Kucha events a must for anyone interested in their local style scene. "You've really got to be there to get the atmosphere," says co-founder Mark Dytham, who describes the intimacy of these gatherings as "like the Internet in reverse." Dytham and partner Astrid Klein, who also run a Tokyo-based architecture firm together, devised the evenings in 2003 as a way of getting to know and share ideas with their professional peers. Three years...
...Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, which tracks politics and technology, is skeptical. "Because the age difference between the candidates and the users on those networks is so great, the analogy would be a 45-year-old arriving at a frat party," says Rasiej, who served as a chief technology advisor for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. "Any campaign that tries these sites will come across as fabricated." The real power of these social networking sites, he says, will come only when a candidate "actually uses MySpace and authentically networks through it. You won't see that...