13/08/2010
Khaleej Times: An academic expert has urged the MENA business sector to support and promote innovation in the workplace as part of corporate culture.
13/08/2010
Khaleej Times: A huge majority of UAE residents are currently entangled in a debt trap even as the country’s Central Bank reports a spurt in the number of bounced cheques this year, a study by a UAE-based financial consultancy revealed.
13/08/2010
KUNA: The homeland is set for a course of great challenge, and the top most challenge is to strengthen cooperation between the legislative and the executive authorities for the best interest of Kuwait, His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammad told Al-Seyassah daily in remarks published on Thursday.
13/08/2010
AP: Polish authorities on Thursday extradited a suspected Mossad agent to Germany, where he faces charges over a passport that was used in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai earlier this year.
Adnan Ahmed Ramahi - 29/05/2009
Gulf states battling to attract settlers
French President Sarkozy, the opening of the first naval base, a permanent French military presence in the Arabian Gulf, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, and it will not be the first French military bases in the Gulf, but also the only outside Africa, and the rooms will open the UAE's sovereignty permanent military base in a strategic location near the Strait of Hormuz and will include those
By Katya Adler - 08/04/2009
www.bbc.co.uk This was my first visit to Qatar and I admit I failed in one of my main missions, to get under the skin of the country.
On Qatar Airways, I met Filipino cabin crew.
The airport ground staff were Pakistani, the hotel receptionist, Sri Lankan, the barista who made my cappuccino on the way to the Arab Summit, Nepali.
By Simeon Kerr in Dubai - 10/02/2009
www.ft.com Growth in Arab Gulf states will almost halve in 2009 on lower than expected oil prices amid the gloomiest global economic outlook in more than half a century, according to the IMF.
By Mark Trevelyan - 18/04/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday.
|
*Roger Hardy - 26/06/2010
Wednesday, 23rd June 2010
The rise of the modern Islamic movements in the past four decades has given prominence to the political side of Islam. Most of these movements had raised the banner of Islamic rule as a manifestation of the applicability of the Sharia’ in the wider sense of the human life. In his book “The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam” Roger Hardy has presented his personal views on the experience, having benefited from two three decades of journalism, most of which has been with the BBC as a Middle East Analyst. In this lecture he explains how he sees the future of Political Islam in light of the many developments, successes and failures in various parts of the world?
*Roger Hardy - 26/06/2010
Wednesday, 23rd June 2010
The rise of the modern Islamic movements in the past four decades has given prominence to the political side of Islam. Most of these movements had raised the banner of Islamic rule as a manifestation of the applicability of the Sharia’ in the wider sense of the human life. In his book “The Muslim Revolt: A Journey Through Political Islam” Roger Hardy has presented his personal views on the experience, having benefited from two three decades of journalism, most of which has been with the BBC as a Middle East Analyst. In this lecture he explains how he sees the future of Political Islam in light of the many developments, successes and failures in various parts of the world?
18/01/2010
Open Discussions
in conjunction with
Gulf Cultural Club
invites you to a discussion entitled
Iran: internal and external challenges
Speakers: Ahmad Kamali*, Afshin Ratansi** and Mustafa G. Abbas***
Date: Wednesday, 27th January 2010
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place. W1H 4LP
Nearest Station: Edgware Road
18/12/2009
Gabriele vom Bruck
F o r e w o r d b y F r e d H a l l i d a y
Cover design by Eugene Kuo
Cover photograph Muhammad b. Muhammad Zabarah,
historian (right), and his son Ahmad, the late Mufti of
the Republic of Yemen, 1940s.
middle eastern studies
“This highly original book offers fresh insight into how traditional ideas of person, society, and responsibility, reworked in the cauldron of revolution and rapidly changing economic and political conditions, remain central to understanding contemporary society and identity politics.
23/06/2009
Life of the Ayatollah
AUTHOR: Baqer Moin
This is a new edition of the bestselling biography of the Iranian leader who influenced the current global Islamic revival.When the Ayatollah Khomeini burst onto the international scene in the late 1970s, radical Islam became a factor of political life that would change the world. And with the Iranian Revolution that Khomeini led in 1978/79, religion once more moved centre stage in world politics.
05/05/2009
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self.
|
