Call it doing well by doing good. Abu Dhabi’s Masdar Initiative has become a profile-raiser for the emirate, an aggressive move to rebrand the city from one the world’s worst polluters per capita into the Silicon Valley of environmental design.
Invading Gaza has weakened Palestine’s moderate president Mahmoud Abbas, and reignited hatred towards an increasingly militant Israel.
While many people see Islamic insurance as a contradiction in terms, that isn’t stopping it from flourishing in countries like Saudi Arabia.
IHG inks pact to develop Syria’s first Holiday Inn
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.
It may be in the club of affluent Gulf states, but institutional problems have left Kuwait less prepared than its neighbors to weather the slump.
