Saudi Arabia must redraw its foreign policy to manage the region’s new geopolitical realities – and it faces significant hurdles along the way.

The associate dean and senior lecturer in finance and accounting at the School of Management, University of Bradford, was in Dubai recently to teach about corporate finance as part of the university’s executive MBA program – the oldest of its kind in the region. Jonathan Howell-Jones caught up with him to get an expert view of what the Middle East can expect from the financial meltdown.

Media in the land of the Pharoahs are pushing free speech, but they may be missing how the local newspaper market is changing.

Middle East consultant Reza Zia-Ebrahimi argues that relations with Iran need to focus on the right person – and it isn’t President Ahmadinejad.

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF’s) recent inaugural summit in Dubai represented the equivalent of an intellectual assault course for its delegates on a range of socioeconomic and geopolitical issues (68 in fact). And at the heart of it lies a puzzle.

The financial crisis will affect the availability of jobs across the region,
and it won’t just be the non-skilled workers who will be in the line of fire.

Incompetent’ Barclays embarrassed by allegations as it seeks Qatar Investment Authority help in raising $7.9bn.

When MerchantBridge’s Samir A. Arab test-drove a Spyker car a few years ago, he was impressed. “How much?” he asked. “$250,000,” came the reply.

Dotcom-unity’s t-shirts with attitude show how slogans can sell - if you can laugh at hard times.

It comes to something when the Labor Minister has don overalls and serve burgers to convince Saudis that working in a fast food joint is better than being unemployed.
Saudi Arabia’s Labor Minister, Ghazi Algosaibi, was pictured yesterday, wearing overalls and serving burgers in fast food restaurant in Jeddah. His three hour stint was aimed at [...]