Five years ago it was the building frenzy and Dubai, at least on paper, looked bigger and dinosaur-crazier each month. Then an unprecedented phase of correction meant the survival only …
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Social buying is collective bargaining in the Internet age. The advantage that group formation brought workers in the industrial age was greater power to represent and achieve their demands vis-à-vis …
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After seeing some delays in expansion beyond the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Dubai-based luxury developer Damac Properties is moving closer to completion of regional projects. These include a residential tower …
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For a country facing economic turmoil and new business risk at every turn in the road this year, Lebanon sports an alarmingly content real estate sector. Intermediaries whose livelihoods depend …
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The regional property market is eagerly anticipating the Cityscape Global (formerly Cityscape Dubai) real estate fair, due to take place from 2-4 October. The real issue at stake is whether …
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American politicians have long been unpopular in the Middle East. Even before the release of the hugely offensive anti-Islamic film and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s unfortunate promise to kick …
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When Maria Carballo recently returned to her job with an airline in the United Arab Emirates, she felt fortunate. Her tests after completing treatment for breast cancer had shown that …
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Samer Hanna is both a pioneer in Lebanon’s online economy and a leader in his niche, which, in simplistic terms, is the provision of outsourced information technology (IT). Hanna is …
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Ramadan and Eid al Fitr 2012, being smack in the middle of summer, generated a curious lot of anecdotal business news across the media. In Kano, home to Nigeria’s largest …
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Insurance broking is a business of consulting and risk advisory that historically bears the onus of being the “middle man”, with all the common questions of what value this function …