What Enterprise subscribers read in 2016
Of the more than 24,000 stories, images, videos, downloads and other links we carried in our English editions this year, here’s what tickled your fancy the most (in descending order within each category):
The most-read story in Enterprise in 2016: Tarek Amer is the 2016 Enterprise Newsmaker of the Year
The most-read issue of Enterprise in 2016: Our special issue on the float of the EGP and the hiking of petroleum product prices
The five most-clicked pieces by Enterprise
- The SODIC “Saving Cairo” series (as a whole, far and away the most-clicked piece in Enterprise this year, edging out even the Tarek Amer interview, which we think says something about your love of our fair city)
- Results of our first-ever reader survey
- Everything you always wanted to know about a value-added tax, but were afraid to ask and House passes VAT law — here’s everything you need to know
- Enterprise conference report: RiseUp 2016
- Uber’s Cairo boss says ridesharing could re-shape Cairo’s streets while creating jobs and economic opportunity
The 10 most-clicked videos:
- This is Egypt (Official tourism promotion ad)
- What about the first Oscar for you? (Leonardo DiCaprio meets the El Sahafa Masriyya)
- The banned Cottonil advertisement (Ramadan 2016, advertisement)
- iPhone 7 morning ride (Apple, advertisement)
- CCTV footage of the Coptic Cathedral blast (Youtube)
- SNL Egypt parodies Lamees El Hadidy and Amr Adib (Facebook video)
- Rami Malek wins an Emmy for Mr. Robot (Acceptance speech)
- The banned Dice advertisement (Ramadan 2016, advertisement)
- A baby iguana is chased by snakes (Planet Earth II, BBC)
- An Egyptian man in New Zealand explains why he calmly walked away from a gunman who held up his convenience store (Enterprise)
The 5 most-clicked images
- That horrible body-shaming ad by Gold’s Gym in Egypt (Facebook, sadly not a parody)
- Amr Diab and his daughter after 50 years (Facebook, parody)
- Pressure cooker bomb discarded by Egyptian security officers in New York as they chose a nifty piece of luggage to take home (NY Daily News)
- Burkini vs. Bikini on the Olympic beach volleyball court (Daily Mail)
- Funeral of victims of the Coptic Cathedral bombing (Georges and Samuel)
The 5 most-clicked stories on domestic issues
- Infographic on customs hikes on this fall’s customs hikes (Al Borsa)
- Finance Minister Amr El Garhy speaks on the eurobond, growth and inflation (Bloomberg, video)
- Africa’s next big currency devaluation seen unfolding in Egypt (Bloomberg, August 2016)
- Egyptian authorities confiscate sugar at country’s largest food producer (Reuters)
- Naguib Sawiris on proposals to cap profit margins (Akhbar El Yom)
The 5 most-clicked Egypt in the News pieces
- Photos From an Abandoned Resort Town Show How Terrorism Destroyed Tourism in Egypt (Gizmodo)
- A Family Weaves an Empire Apartment by Apartment (Wall Street Journal)
- Go Inside China’s Bizarre Theme Park in the Egyptian Desert (Wired)
- Egyptians Take to the Streets Again, Now in Workout Gear (New York Times)
- Coffee, Bikini Waxes, X-Rays: Almost Anything Can Be Sent to Homes in Cairo (New York Times)
The 5 most-clicked documents and reports
- Enterprise’s XLS sheet of parallel market USD prices from November 2015 through mid-October 2016 (XLSX download)
- Leaked draft of the executive regulations of the value-added tax (Al Mal, pdf)
- Schedule of all Egyptian athletes competing at the Olympic Games (Egypt Sports Network, pdf)
- Schedule of customs tariffs after this fall’s rate hike (Official Gazette, pdf)
- A necessary but insufficient devaluation (BNP Paribas report, October 2016) (tie)
- Crédit Suisse report placing Egypt in its Crédit Suisse Frontier Markets 10 (Crédit Suisse, pdf) (tie)
The 5 most-clicked rankings and resources
- The Panama Papers: The Power Players (Panama Papers)
- Have I been pwned (website)
- Global Passport Power Rank 2016 (Passport Index)
- IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2016, pdf)
- IMF and World Bank Spring 2016 Meetings landing page, with webcasts, videos, stories, photos (IMF)
The 5 most-clicked Weekend Edition stories
- How to hide USD 400 mn (New York Times)
- Foreign Spouse, Happy Life (New York Times)
- This essay got a high-school senior into 5 Ivy League schools and Stanford (Business Insider)
- The Pessimist’s Guide to 2017 (Bloomberg)
- Six signs you will be rejected when you apply for a job at Goldman Sachs (and how to overcome them) (efinancialcareers)
The 5 most-clicked conferences
- RiseUp Summit
- EFG Hermes One on One 2016
- Microfinance Egypt
- Suez Canal Global Conference (tie)
- Egypt Energy Investment Summit (tie)
- The Angel Ticket: Your Guide to Early-Stage Investing