Places, People, and Politics (5th edition) A book by Colbert Held and John Cumming People who are not from the region are often puzzled by the Middle East. To outsiders, …
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The United States Department of the Treasury’s designation in early February of Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) as a “financial institution of prime money laundering concern” hit the bank like …
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When the Egyptian Stock Exchange (EGX) finally resumed trading on March 23, six weeks after the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, officials were pragmatic about the day’s 8.9 percent drop …
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Geoff Skingsley is executive vice president of human resources for L’Oreal Global. He recently sat down with Executive to discuss hiring conditions in the Middle East, as well as the …
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If anything can be reliably forecast amid the growing upheaval in the Middle East and North Africa, it is the direction of global food prices. They have currently settled at …
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A word with leading Lebanese banking luminaries: Bank Audi’s Chief Financial Officer Freddie Baz, Byblos Bank’s General Manager François Bassil and Saad Azhari, chairman of BLOM Bank discuss the state …
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Nakheel, the master developer of Dubai’s trademark Palm Islands and many other ambitious projects, has recently restarted a portion of its developments after a difficult period of two …
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Britain has played a nefarious role in the Middle East’s history. We all know that London re-drew the region’s borders after World War I as part of a …
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There has been much commotion in Beirut in recent months over the installation of a network of radars on Lebanon’s roads. Though not a new endeavor in the …
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With praise from international media raining in for his steadiness at Lebanon’s financial helm, Executive sat down with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh to discuss the current and future state …