Things are changing in northeastern Syria’s Kurdish-majority Hassake province. Gradually, the swoops and curves of Arabic script on storefronts and street signs are being replaced with the Latin characters that …
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Help for first-time job seekers The government launched a $2.2 million program to improve the employment prospects of first-time job seekers in the country. The New Entrants to Work (NEW) …
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And as if from nowhere, there was a breakthrough. Ten months after the Council of Ministers, Lebanon’s cabinet, demanded the establishment of a Petroleum Administration (PA), and nine months after …
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Damas is the leading jewelry chain in the United Arab Emirates and a luxury venture that claims to have a 17 percent share of the domestic market. The roots of …
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To make it as luxury real estate in the Gulf region these days, a development must have more than a funky name and a public relations consultant. Nurai, a residential …
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Business at Dubai Duty Free (DDF) improved again in the first half of 2012 as the aviation world’s single-location uber-retailer reported 11 percent growth in sales from a year …
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Although close to $2 billion worth of luxury items have been sold in the United Arab Emirates this year, looking in the windows of shopping malls today will show that …
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the preeminent organization trying its hand at the impossible game of matching business with the greater global good. The WEF global agenda councils (GAC) …
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There is no shortage of super-regional and regional malls in countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Super-regional malls, such as Dubai Mall and Mall of the Emirates in the …
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Despite some corporate performance soft spots and pockets of socioeconomic discontent, the Gulf economies are a good bet for investors this year, and into the future. High oil prices conjoined …