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.
An Embattled EmirateKuwait’s government implodes along with its financial market, as Emir Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah dissolves parliament.
Changing GearsAs the maxim goes, “Buy in gloom, sell in a boom.” Aabar Petroleum Investments Company is certainly doing the first bit.
A Bright FutureCall 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 beginningAt 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 CONUNDRUMThe 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.
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 [...]
A Palermo-based NGO is helping impoverished Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars Egyptian villages to bring in ecotourism dollars.