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Licensing content in Dubai can be a simple process, if done correctly (Shutterstock)

February 14th, 2019 - 10:08 GMT

Thinking of Licensing Content in Dubai? Read this First!

Licensing content in Dubai can be a simple process, if done correctly

With the UK and Malaysian Islamic finance markets growing, will the Middle East still serve as the hub of the Islamic economy? (Reuters)

November 24th, 2013 - 08:00 GMT

The global Islamic finance rat race: is the Middle East still a contender?

Over the last decade, the region has established itself as a key player in aviation – just look at Etihad Airways, Emirates and Qatar Airways and the way they have revolutionised air travel.

November 24th, 2013 - 05:29 GMT

Delusion or reality? The new kind of 'industrial revolution' awaiting the Gulg

The Rise Up Egypt Summit, the first home-grown summit by Egyptian entrepreneurs for Egyptian entrepreneurs, will be held on November 24th and 25th, at the newly launched The GrEEK Campus in Downtown Cairo.

November 24th, 2013 - 03:55 GMT

Rise Up Egypt! First entrepreneurship summit to be held in Egypt

Social inequality and an unequal playing field can translate into a generation’s worth of lost dreams, and sometimes a lack of finances is the only thing standing between the youth and their dreams.

November 21st, 2013 - 01:41 GMT

It's time to give the MENA's youth enough credit

Qatar Foundation's Education City has been internationally recognized due to its high-performance buildings that require significantly reduced energy and water supplies to function effectively (Courtesy of Construction Week Online)

November 21st, 2013 - 11:18 GMT

How Qatar is LEED-ing the way in green construction

Saudi Arabia, where more than 9 million non-Saudis worked before this month's labor deportations, has one of the strongest economies in the region largely due to its expat workforce (Courtesy of Gulf Business)

November 21st, 2013 - 10:39 GMT

Why Saudi needs-and has always needed expatriates to come back to KSA

Manufacturing must be the central driver of Middle Eastern economies in the future, says Dow Chemical's James Fitterling, who gave the keynote at this year's Gulf Petrochemical & Chemicals Association Forum in Dubai (Shutterstock)

November 21st, 2013 - 09:30 GMT

Why the Middle East must invest its future in manufacturing AND innovation

Muscat is increasingly considered the sukuk market of the future, despite the fact that Oman was the last country in the GCC to issue sukuk (Courtesy of Islamic Financial Times)

November 21st, 2013 - 08:06 GMT

Is Oman the next leader in the sukuk market?

The Saudi energy industry has to evolve to meet global opportunities and challenges. (Image credit: Shutterstock)

November 21st, 2013 - 06:10 GMT

Should Saudi Arabia be concerned about the USA's growing oil shale output?

Once the inexperienced Muslim Brotherhood was out of the way, supporters of the coup expected the caretaker government to act immediately by expediting structural reforms necessary to relieve pressure on the deficit and free up the economy.

November 21st, 2013 - 03:55 GMT

Could the worse be over for Egypt's economy? All we can say is, nshallah!

Libya’s oil minister claimed that such disruptions have cost the country more than $1 billion in the past five months alone.

November 21st, 2013 - 03:55 GMT

Libya's economy standing on the edge of a cliff

Regarding the regional distribution of R&D spending in Turkey, the largest share of R&D spending was in the Western Anatolia region with 28.5 percent, according to the study, followed by İstanbul with 15.4 percent.

November 20th, 2013 - 08:05 GMT

Turkey's R&D investments– good, but not good enough