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When you have been in a relationship with someone for centuries, breaking up is hard to do. Sure, you may bicker over seemingly trivial problems in your marriage, but more …

Last year’s soaring food prices caused a global crisis that triggered a shopping spree on farm land around the world. Rich countries that normally import food have now bought up …

Property disputes between real estate developers and investors in the United Arab Emirates have increased since the financial crisis crippled the country’s property market. Dubai’s property court has already recorded …

For business journalists, writing about the Gulf from 2004 to 2008 was often a repetitive process. Regardless of the sector being covered, the opening paragraph would invariably have a growth …

Political infighting has dogged attempts by Gulf Cooperation Council states to integrate their economies. Most recently the factious nature of GCC relations has been agitated by the planned monetary union. …

The decongested streets of Dubai seem strangely incongruent with the message that the federal government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) would have you to believe — that the effects …

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Earlier this year when Abu Dhabi capitalized five of its own banks, panic spread throughout the Dubai banking sector. Waiting with baited breath, bankers in the ailing emirate anticipated action …

Economists far and near differ widely in their forecasts on when leading financial markets will enter into a new virtuous cycle, but one thing experts do agree on is that …

If there is one thing everyone in the regional private equity (PE) game agrees on, it’s that the party is officially over, albeit after a long and fruitful period of …