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FEBRUARY 2010

by reeda

FEBRUARY 2010

 

EDITORIAL





COMMENT



Ungracious guests
Syria may muzzle militias






Sectarianism ends at home
Why flying the nest matters






Total tiptoes back to Iran
The French giant treads carefully back into the Islamic Republic






Tight-lipped Libya’s brazen bluff
Is Libya cooking the books of its oil reserves?






IMF still chasing Turkey’s tail
The support of the people is not enough to deal with Turkey






Iraq’s electoral maelstrom
The banning of candidates in Iraq




FEATURE



Secrets of the stones
Executive peers into the murky world of Lebanon’s jewelry sector






Dogan down for the count
Media mogul rolls over after tax fine sucker punch






Little country, big heart
Lebanon’s MEA flight takes life saving supplies to quake-struck Haiti






Unsavory one-upmanship
A counter-attack in the hummus war




SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAZA WALL



Crushing Gaza’s subterranean salvation
Egypt caves under US and Israeli pressure to block smuggling tunnels






Economics of the underground
Wall will quash Gaza’s necessary and thriving tunnel trade






Cairo’s capitulation
Gaza suffers for the sake of Egypt’s presidential succession




BANKING







Reeling in the rich
Banks butter up the world






Shadows of foreclosure
A comatose market keeps Dubai banks wary of repossessing property




REAL ESTATE







Tripoli’s Idle arches
The Chinese government may soon give Tripoli






Ruins to spring riches
Developer seeks to revive one of Lebanon






Hiking up mountain prices
Ski-resort real estate prices soar, despite shrinking snow




ECONOMICS & FINANCE







Tele-me-when
Counting the cost of archaic Internet as Lebanon hopes for broadband breakthrough






Money makers
Middle East currency traders’ golden hour










New year, few IPOs
Predictions abound while the markets wait for results in 2009






Regional equity markets
An overview of January’s stock market trends




CONSUMER SOCIETY



Modernizing the marque
The Rolls Royce Ghost ushers in a fresh are for the prestige automaker, but at what price?










Style over substance
Smartphone sales soar despite an antiquated and inadequate telecoms system






The ABC of corporate crisis management
Corporate crisis management has never been more important


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BUSINESS ESSENTIALS





CAPITALIST CULTURE



Obama‘s self-defeatism
The president walks the political tightrope between economic restrictions and political power