Sentence examples for heikal from inspiring English sources
In 1957 Nasser had made his friend Muhammad Hassanein Heikal the editor of Al-Ahram, and Heikal's effect on the paper was profound.
When you finally come across a promising asset, why sell it prematurely, he asks?Mr Heikal says he is already doing well from his investment in Rift Valley Railways, a rail line from Kenya to Uganda.
Given the high cost of power from diesel generators in Africa, renewable energy can be an attractive alternative.Ahmed Heikal, chairman of Qalaa Holdings, an investment firm with holdings in several power producers, thinks that in Africa a "new model [of renewable energy] that bypasses the government is emerging".
It may also be a minor error of judgment on Mr Rogan's part to have relied so heavily on Hassanein Heikal, an Egyptian journalist, for his account of Anwar Sadat.
As Mr Heikal says: "If we get things right, we could be Turkey in ten years.
It was the Egyptian journalist Mohamed Hassanein Heikal who first wrote of how the CIA circulated film of an Iranian woman being tortured by the Shah's secret police so that other nations should learn how to make female prisoners talk.
Citadel Capital's Ahmed Heikal says that such efforts need to be replicated throughout the region.
Already the biggest brokerage house in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, as well as on Cairo's stock exchange, it recently expanded operations to Syria and pocketed a cool $260m profit from a $913m sale of its stake in Bank Audi, a Lebanese bank.Less risk-averse, Ahmed Heikal left EFG-Hermes to form a private-equity firm, Citadel Capital.
"In the long term it will happen," insists Ahmed Heikal, the founder of Citadel Capital, waving his hands as if holding a magic wand.
"We can see that the government wants to encourage collaboration with Africa," says Ahmed Heikal of Qalaa Holdings, an Egyptian firm that invests in Africa.
Many Egyptians, argues Ahmed Heikal, Egypt's biggest private investor, underestimate the impact the economy is likely to have on the political system.
