Archives for the ‘Trends’ Category

An Embattled Emirate

By Trends • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Trends

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



Changing Gears

By Trends • Apr 30th, 2009 • Category: Trends

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



A Bright Future

By admin • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Trends

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.



A humble beginning

By Nathalie Bontems • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Trends

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



Flush and Flee

By Trends • Mar 4th, 2009 • Category: Business, Trends

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



THE CONUNDRUM

By admin • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Banking/finance, Trends

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.



Lebanese T-shirt

By admin • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Trends

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



Saudi Minister flips burgers to sell McJobs to locals

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Trends

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 [...]



The Italian Oasis

By admin • Jun 23rd, 2008 • Category: Trends

A Palermo-based NGO is helping impoverished Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars.