middle east

  The region’s rich are staging a comeback. With the timeline for an economic rebound still unknown, personal fortunes may be the first to recover from the global financial meltdown. …

Many of the headlines splashed around the economic pages since September 2008’s global financial earthquake have inspired little confidence in Middle Eastern equities. The latest aftershock, involving Dubai World’s liabilities, …

Laura Martorano is the chief executive officer of Leo Sterling, the brokerage firm she founded in Dubai at the beginning of 2009. Previous to this, Martorano had been the CEO …

The financial crisis left former hedge fund investors with a bad taste in their mouths. A lack of transparency and light-touch regulation meant that many funds nearly went bankrupt when …

Health care is one of the fastest growing industries in the region. As a global leader in health care equipment and technology, GE Healthcare — a $17 billion segment of …

Since 1963, McLaren has been renowned for its race cars and is the only racing team to have won Formula 1, Indianapolis 500, Can-Am and Le Mans championships. McLaren Automotive …

Edmond (Eddie) Moutran  is the founder of the advertising firm Memac, and is now the chairman and CEO of its successor, Memac Ogilvy. As the first Lebanese advertising executive to …

Samsung, the South Korea-based electronics manufacturing giant, announced the official launch of its regional Levant office this summer, to be based in Amman, Jordan. Executive was invited to attend the …

Ralph Clementson is the general manager for the advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He is also on the board of Memac Ogilvy, the …

Sitting on one of the world’s biggest reserves of oil, Iraq continues to be presented with a still difficult-to-answer question — are its vast hydrocarbon reserves an asset or a …