Business Today Egypt


Business Today Egypt is an English business magazine which is published monthly in Cairo, Egypt. It is the only independent business magazine in the country. The magazine models Fortune and Business Week magazines.

History and profile

BT was launched in 1995. It is being published by IBA Media which also publishes Egypt Today magazine. The magazine is based in Cairo.
The magazine provides political, economical and business news. It publishes annual BT 100 rankings of companies. Each month BT offers special supplements, for instance, in January digital boom, in April real estate and in October technology.
The 2013 circulation of the magazine was about 12,000 copies.

Incidents

In October 2013 deputy managing editor Campbell MacDiarmid was arrested while covering the Islamist protests in Egypt. He was released after being detained for several hours, and said police told him to delete photographs he had taken of the protests.