by MENA-Forum | Sep 21, 2020 | Archeology, Culture, Education & Culture, Higher education, MENA, Sahara
Prehistoric desert footprints are earliest evidence for Homo sapiens on Arabian Peninsula and are elaborated on by Richard Clark-Wilson, Royal Holloway. Humanity originated on the African continent at least 300,000 years ago. We know from fossil evidence in southern...
by MENA-Forum | Sep 17, 2020 | Business, Diversification of the economy, E-commerce, Economic Development, Emerging Markets, Government Policy/Regulation/Legislation, Greening of the desert, Informal Market, Investments, MENA, Monetary policies, Small Business, Social Media, Social Networking, Start-ups, Sustainable Development, Well-being
The London based WARC posted a summarised page of News on 16/09/2020 of its report covering how Four strategies for growth in MENA would be best to be followed in the MENA region. An analysis of the results of this year’s WARC Prize for MENA Strategy reveals key...
by MENA-Forum | Sep 12, 2020 | Culture, Economic Development, Free Press, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, International Conference, Investments, MENA, Politics, Population Migration
THE NATION in its Navigating the Middle East as witnessed from Pakistan by Usama Shirazi is an eye-opener on the MENA region’s neighbourhood reciprocal relationship feelings towards it. September 12, 2020 The Middle Eastern region has enormous...
by MENA-Forum | Sep 5, 2020 | Big Oils, Energy Transition, Free Press, Freedom of Speech, MENA, OPEC, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Shale Gas
With oil, money comes to you in your sleep; with debt, money comes to you by crawling. With work, money comes to you by sweating.MENA’s oil boom is a perfect illustration of the cohabitation between the permanence of endemic moral misery and the existence of...
by Dr A. Mebtoul | Aug 31, 2020 | Democracy, Diversification of the economy, Economic Development, Finance and Investment, Governance, Informal Market, International Conference, International Trade, MENA, Sustainable Development
What impact does the EU/Algeria Association Agreement applicable on 1 September 2020 will have on the Algerian economy? For that, see HKTDC review; the image above is only for illustration. Signed on September 1, 2005, the Free Trade Association Agreement with Europe,...
by MENA-Forum | Aug 29, 2020 | Civil Society, Culture, Human Resources, Human Rights, Integration of Nature, MENA, Population
Hadi Khatib wrote for AMEinfo on August 14, 2020 an article asking Are Gulf job nationalization efforts hurting local economies? Kuwait, Saudi and the UAE are moving towards giving their nationals a more prominent role in their economies via job nationalization...
