Middle East Magazine

May 2008

Features:

• Osama Bin laden’s infamous ‘sorcerer’, Midhat Mursi al sayyid umar, comes back from the dead and rekindles new fears that jihadists are pursuing chemical, biological and radiological weapons.
• While the world’s attention has been focused on the huge inlux of petrodollars lowing to arab oil producing countries, another source of bounty has also arrived without much notice: foreign direct investment (Fdi). Figures from the un show the arab world is now reaping some $60bn a year from these investments.
• The Middle easT January 2008 3 This month israel will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of its independence. For Palestinians however, six decades of oppression and tyranny are nothing to make merry over. The Middle east looks back to 1948 and the nakhba, or ‘catastrophe’.
• opening the door to foreign investment in the arab world
• ex clusive business intervie w: ibrahim dabdoub of nBK
• saudi arabia: the $ peg
• saudi arabia: the $ peg
• Business Briefs
• Kurdistan: a future oil emirate?
• syria: riding the wave of sanctions
• regional: WeF report
• Qatar: doha debate
• iran: disappointment and delays dog development on south Pars
• iraq : oil and gas to energise economic fortunes
• egypt: CiB aims for bigger and better in 2008
• regional: the al Qaeda weapons race continues
• Kurdistan: the voice of the opposition from within
• iran: nuclear programme wins popular support
• iran: from the inside
• Gaza: the place the world forgot
• Turke y: striking south
• Turkey: its darkest shadow
• regional: fungal thre at to region’s food security