Exhausted after a long workday, Hisham Fahmy takes off his jacket and sinks into a sofa at the offices of the American Chamber of Commerce in Cairo. The chief executive since 1999 of the country’s most prestigious business association, grouping the elite of its entrepreneurial class, he is preparing for possibly the most crucial visit by a US trade delegation Egypt has ever hosted.
It is not only the size of the mission, the largest to come to Egypt with 118 businessmen from 48 major US companies, but also its timing and the political context which gives it added significance.
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