Billmon: Land of Goshen

I'm off tonight for Egypt, where I will be attending the World Economic Forum's Middle East Summit, which this year is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, the resort town at the very tip of the Sinai peninsula.

I'm not going as one of the paying guests, but rather as a staff writer, paid a modest stipend to sit in the sessions, take notes and then write up one-page summaries to be posted on the WEF's web site. The forum's house rules preclude me from blogging what I hear and see inside the sessions, but they won't prevent me from giving my overall impression of the meeting and the participants, their percieved state of mind, etc. Nor will it stop me from quoting from the summaries themselves, once they are posted.