An influx of Iraqi refugees continues to present challenges for Jordan’s economy. What will be the consequences for their host country if they stay or go?

One offshoot of Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing information-technology market is the country’s up-and-coming generation of pirate programmers.

After more than a decade of delays, and with energy prices in the basement, Lebanon may finally be gravitating towards oil and gas exploration.

Kuwait is never shy about making news for the wrong reasons.

A new phenomenon has appeared in Dubai: cars abandoned en masse.

For the UAE’s most populous emirate, keeping the global recession at bay may mean stemming an exodus of human as well as financial capital.

While many people see Islamic insurance as a contradiction in terms, that isn’t stopping it from flourishing in countries like Saudi Arabia.

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

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.

Property auctions may be an indulgence of the rich, but they’re also a growing trend in the Dubai real estate market that can’t be ignored.