FEBRUARY 2010
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Total tiptoes back to Iran
The French giant treads carefully back into the Islamic Republic
Gareth Smyth
IMF still chasing Turkey’s tail
The support of the people is not enough to deal with Turkey
Peter Grimsditch
FEATURE
Secrets of the stones
Executive peers into the murky world of Lebanon’s jewelry sector
Executive Editors
Little country, big heart
Lebanon’s MEA flight takes life saving supplies to quake-struck Haiti
Executive Editors
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE GAZA WALL
Crushing Gaza’s subterranean salvation
Egypt caves under US and Israeli pressure to block smuggling tunnels
Jonathan Wright
Economics of the underground
Wall will quash Gaza’s necessary and thriving tunnel trade
Jonathan Wright
BANKING
Shadows of foreclosure
A comatose market keeps Dubai banks wary of repossessing property
Emma Cosgrove
REAL ESTATE
ECONOMICS & FINANCE
Tele-me-when
Counting the cost of archaic Internet as Lebanon hopes for broadband breakthrough
Sami Halabi
CONSUMER SOCIETY
Modernizing the marque
The Rolls Royce Ghost ushers in a fresh are for the prestige automaker, but at what price?
Executive Staff
Style over substance
Smartphone sales soar despite an antiquated and inadequate telecoms system
Mona Alami
The ABC of corporate crisis management
Corporate crisis management has never been more important
Dima Itani , Zeina Loutfi and Ramsay G. Najjar
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
CAPITALIST CULTURE
Obama‘s self-defeatism
The president walks the political tightrope between economic restrictions and political power
Executive Staff
