Just a few weeks away from parliamentary elections on June 7 that will pit the current parliamentary majority led by Saad Hariri against the Hezbollah-led opposition, even minor events could tip the balance in favor of one side or the other.

As the situation in Sudan careened towards fresh disaster in March, leaders from across North Africa and the Middle East appeared set for a memorable Arab League summit.

US President Barack Obama is pushing to make good his promise to foment greater dialogue with the Middle East.

Kuwait’s government implodes along with its financial market, as Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah dissolves parliament.

As the maxim goes, “Buy in gloom, sell in a boom.” Aabar Petroleum Investments Company is certainly doing the first bit.

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.

At last, the Damascus Stock Exchange (DSE)’s opening bell will ring for the first time on Feb. 23.

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

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.

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