أبوظبي، 3 نوفمبر 2015 – انخفض مؤشر الثقة في الأعمال بين الرؤساء التنفيذيين في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا في الربع الثالث من العام، ليصل إلى أدنى مستوياته منذ يناير 2012؛ حيث تراجع مؤشر الثقة YPO Global Pulse في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا بمعدل 3.5 نقطة لينخفض من 60.8 إلى 57.3 محققاً انخفاضاً طفيفاً […]
Continue readingABU DHABI, Nov. 3, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Business confidence amongst CEOs in the Middle East and North Africa declined in the third quarter of the year, hitting its lowest level since January 2012. The YPO Global Pulse confidence index for the Middle East and North Africa dropped 3.5 points to 60.8 to 57.3, slightly […]
Continue readingMembers of the Israel Judo Association returned to Israel on Monday afternoon from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and spoke to the press about how they were forced to compete without the Israeli flag. At the Grand Prix in Abu Dhabi, Yarden Gerbi and Sagi Muki won bronze medals for Israel Saturday, but the painfully obvious…
Continue readingEgyptian star javelin thrower Ihab Abdel-Rahman has won the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Creative Sports Award. Nominees for the Creative Sports Award, a contest held every year, were from African and Arab countries. There were several awards categories — the Arab Social Media Award, Arabic Language, World Peace, and Creative Sports. “Only one winner won the…
Continue readingNaje When the young writer Ahmed Naje was referred to a criminal court over sexually explicit fiction this Saturday, gongs sounded for the literary community. The news was an unpleasant reminder that, while creative writers in Egypt are by and large left to their own devices, this is only because their work is seldom scrutinised outside…
Continue readingIntolerance, especially when it comes to issues involving the Middle East, is a destructive force that has distorted American politics and our policies, rendering us powerless to provide constructive leadership across the Arab world. Such intolerance was on display last week following Democratic presidential candidate Martin O’Malley’s appearance at the Arab American Institute’s National Leadership Conference…
Continue readingAt last, the Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination (IPC) has awakened from its deep slumber and written a letter to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), seeking explanation from chairman Shaharyar Mohammad Khan regarding the embarrassment suffered by him in India two weeks back. Federal Minister for IPC Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada, through the letter, on Monday…
Continue readingNo one knows in what state the Arab world and wider Middle East will be in after the region is finally able to traverse the ongoing political storm which it has endured since 2011. Despite the destruction that has been wrought and the shredding of the social fabric in Arab countries since then, this storm will…
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