A Palermo-based NGO is helping impoverished Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars.

The Kuwait Stock Exchange’s sojourn in the legislative wilderness is about to end with draft laws to establish a regulatory authority before the country’s

Dubai wants to be a destination for medical tourists, but success won’t happen overnight. Those in need of specialist care tend to shop around best deal.

Middle East record labels are using the same technologies that threaten to put them out of business to win back music fans who have been seduced by piracy.

The Middle East is finally jumping on the carbon trading bandwagon. Surprised?

Senior engineer Nabil Barghouthi clicks the cursor on his computer, displaying buildings in red and roads in green, on a master plan that could make Palestinian history.
 
“This area is left for a secondary school,” says Barghouthi, of the Bayti Real Estate and Investment Company. “The clinic must be in a residential area – at a [...]

After the calls to leave had been issued, armed security guards finally escorted the bulldozer toward its target, a metal shack that easily crumpled. Moments before, it had been home to Abdul-Karim Hamad Tarabin, his parents and 16 siblings.
 
“We knew it would be destroyed but didn’t know exactly when,” says 18-year-old Abdul-Karim about the [...]

It was easy to write off poor little Lebanon. For decades, the country has considered by many to be the sick man of the Middle East, which is no small feat. But despite its political paralysis (which for seven months made it impossible to elect a president) and what felt like imminent civil [...]