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|By Hanan Alsuraihi| “Hezbollah and the Iranian regional strategy” is considered one of the hottest themes debated today in the Arabic and Islamic world. It focuses on the role of Hezbollah in the Iranian…
|By Umar Munshi| Islamic Crowdfunding has the potential to help us change our world for the better. When an online community…
|By K Raveendran| With the new Public-Private Partnership law having come into being last month, Dubai is set to witness a…
|By Lawrence Williams| The ‘Nobody Cares’ quote was the theme of Grant Williams’ polished performance at Mines & Money London last…
/By Nitten Nair/Life is a constant journey of self-realization and most importantly, continuous self-improvement. I personally believe that a life that…
|By Dr Shakir Noori| Personal identity of the citizens has been a contentious issue for successive governments in Iraq. Recently, the…
|Nitten Nair|Over the years I consider myself extremely lucky to have worked with a myriad of bosses who range from the…
|By Lawrence Williams| Let’s face it, the gold price seems to bear little correlation to global physical metal demand. In the…
For decades, the world of science fiction has been shaping our expectations of the future, with many puzzling terms of the…
|By Matein Khalid| Hong Kong now trades at 9.6 times earnings and 0.86 book value. Hang Seng valuations were gutted by…
|By Matein Khalid| A month ago, I published a column predicting history’s first Made in China global recession. Wall Street finally…
By Kingsely Ohajunwa| Corruption has been a clog in the wheel of progress in Nigeria; there are too many corrupt individuals…
|By Matein Khalid|So Pearson PLC has sold the FT Group (with its flagship Financial Times newspaper) to Japan’s Nikkei Inc for…
|By Matein Khald| During the 2008 post-Lehman financial meltdown, home prices in Dubai fell by 60-70 per cent and a generation…
In my previous column, I outlined the innovative German system of cooperative study and universities of applied sciences. These institutes in…
Bengaluru/By Vishnu Raja/The on-going brawl over telcos move to charge consumers differently and discriminate in favor of some apps opposed to…
|By Shakir Noori| The images captured by mobile cameras flicker across the television screen, much in the manner of old Hollywood…
|By Sarosh Zaiwalla| Towards the end of last year, it was announced that the UAE’s long anticipated insolvency reform bill was…
|By K Raveendran| India has raised tax rates on petrol and diesel, taking advantage of falling oil prices to bolster government…
|By Rashidul Bari| When I was writing Grameen Social Business Model, a book detailing the search for a weapon to use…
German engineering has an outstanding reputation worldwide for quality, technological innovation and reliability, yet in the obsession for perfection, it can…
|By Winfried Weber| German Mittelstand has become a new role model for managers from all over the world. A pilot study…
|By Rashidul Bari| Palestine and Israel, once known as cradle of civilization, have become the hub of cemeteries in modern times.…
|By K Raveendran| The Chinese presence in the UAE, Gulf and the Middle East is well-entrenched, with China becoming almost a…
|By K Raveendran| Is the ‘irrational exuberance’ man at it again? Allen Greenspan, whose description of the state of the market…
More than 90% of enterprises in the Arab world can be considered small and medium-sized enterprises. The growing importance of small…
Coca-Cola’s Facebook page is supposed to have the biggest fan base for any brand. As per the latest tally, the page…
Dubai is set to become a smart city in the next three years, which would see a thousand government services going…