Archives for the ‘Special Report’ Category

Top Arab Cities 2010

By Trends • Jun 1st, 2010 • Category: Editor's Choice, Special Report

Where should you live, work, and play? Our exclusive rankings pit the region’s major cities against one another to identify the best urban areas in the Middle East.



Hellenizing Libya

By admin • Aug 4th, 2009 • Category: Special Report

In one of the Arab world’s most isolated countries, a Greek community school has been transformed into a social experiment in educating global citizens.



Gearing Down

By Alex Malouf • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Special Report

The Kingdom’s car market is facing troubled manufacturers abroad and public outcry at home.



Tunnel Vision

By admin • Dec 11th, 2008 • Category: Special Report

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.



Al-Qaeda Resurgent

By Trends • Jul 15th, 2008 • Category: Special Report

A new generation of Yemeni jihadis is unleashing a wave of terror in Osama bin Laden’s ancestral homeland.



A tribe without a sheikh

By admin • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Special Report

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