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 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 | 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...
by MENA-Forum | Aug 28, 2020 | Banking & Financial Institutions, Civil Society, Corruption, Credit Control, Culture, Economic Development, Governance, Informal Market, MENA, Politics
On 27 August 2020, OXFAM found that all MENA billionaires’ wealth increased by $10 billion, enough to pay Beirut blast repair bill. The 21 billionaires in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), all of them men, saw their wealth increase by nearly $10 billion since...
by MENA-Forum | Aug 27, 2020 | Cities, Culture, Democracy, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, International Conference, MENA, Politics, Sustainability
From golden age to war and ruin: Lebanon in turmoil as it hits 100 as told by Tom Perry and Imad Creidi is a story of a whole country as recalled by one of its inhabitants. It seems that it is to be of yet another artificial state-nation conjured up in the recent past...
by MENA-Forum | Aug 17, 2020 | Consultants, Culture, Digitisation, Information & Communication Technology, Innovation, MENA, Smart Technology, Technological development
The most populous usage of the language and culture must be the reason Arabic Citation Index in Egypt by Clarivate has finally made it to the MENA region reports CISION’s PRNews. Clarivate Launches the Arabic Citation Index in Egypt Journal submissions now open...
