JUNE 2011
EDITORIAL
COMMENT
Fatally missing the point
After 'Nakba' shootings, media ignores Israel's culpability
Lauren Williams
Mubarak’s fallen foreign policy
Egypt turns turns the table on its pro-Israeli stance
Jonathan Wright
The great nuclear silence
Lesson's to be learnt from Japan's disaster fall on deaf ears
Peter Speetjens
FEATURE
BANKING & FINANCE
SPECIAL REPORT:BANKING BUOYANCY
Adventures In Banking
Expectations go awry as the Arab Spring upsets stable markets
Executive Editors
REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT
Bankrolling the builders
Banks reconfigure their allocation of loans, and risk, to real estate
Executive Editors
ECONOMICS & POLICY
The GCC expands
The Gulf Cooperation Council prepares to welcome a few new members
Fabio Scacciavillani
Executive Insight – Booz & Co.
Proving there's still a place for snail mail in the digital age
Ulrich Koegler Ivan Jakovljevic
CONSUMER SOCIETY
Gambling on a goddess
Homegrown promoter risk it all to bring Shakira to Lebanon's shores
Emma Cosgrove
BUSINESS ESSENTIALS
LAST WORD
A persistent political ice age
Saudi authorities react to the 'Arab Spring' by crushing dissent
Christoph Wilcke