For the first time on Arabic television, a dramatic production airing this Ramadan, the holy Muslim month, depicts the life of Egyptian Jews during the 1920s and 1930s, showing them in favorable light as ordinary citizens, no different from Egyptian Muslims and Christians.
The latest Arab Human Development Report published by the UN gives a detailed assessment of the most significant environmental hazards facing the Arab countries. The report, based on research conducted over two years, considers population and demographic pressures
The Secretary of Foreign Affairs at the General People’s Congress of Libya, Mr. Suleiman Al Shahoumi, paid a courtesy call to the Headquarters of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean in Malta on 26 August while on a visit to the island state.
All over the region, rising consumption is testing capacity. In Dubai, the number of electricity customers has doubled in the space of a decade. Saudi Arabia has seen a near 60 per cent increase in electricity customers over the same period.
Half of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa region consume more water on average than they are receiving in rainfall. Yet the per capita water availability in the region is projected to fall by half by 2050, writes James Gavin...
General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who ousted Mauritania's elected leader in a coup last year, has won the country's presidency amid opposition claims the results were "prefabricated".
The early days of the credit crunch saw the Middle East and North Africa region lauded as a beacon of stability in a tormented global financial market. However, the liquidity problems that have afflicted financial institutions elsewhere in the world will still have a decisive impact on the region's financing plans, writes James Gavin...
It's official. Not one, but two words from the Arabic language are being inducted into the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary- Eleventh edition. The first is not unknown to anyone who has ever experienced the fine world
The business of matching the skills to jobs in Middle Eastern and North African economies has never been greater. Throughout the region, huge resources are being expended to improve the quality of educational and training provision. John Hamilton reports...
A series of initiatives designed to bolster transport and communications links across the Middle East and North Africa region has been encouraged by efforts to strengthen regional political and economic ties. Ian Lewis reports...
Newspapers are feistier, satellite dishes are mushrooming, PR has become an industry, even in the most unlikely places, and new media are attracting new audiences, writes Paul Melly...
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