Nbr. 416, November 2010

Index

• The view.
• Settling on a stalemate.
• Falcons: unlikely fashion victims.
• Space travel a step closer.
• Women's forum to take place in Saudi Arabia.
• 2010 Doha Aviation Summit.
• Story of hope in Afghanistan.
• Fashion: the story of a lifetime.
• Gauguin, the Orientalist?
• Bonhams first classic car auction in Dubai.
• Halal fast food growing in Europe.
• More than 50,00 tickets sold for the inaugural Formula One race in Abu Dhabi.
• Sotheby's Islamic Art auction reaches new highs.
• Yemen's southern discomfort: South Yemen, once a Soviet-backed socialist state, is up in arms seeking secession amid rising Al Qaeda violence and other woes that threaten the regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
• Peace talks frozen as middle eastern crisis looms.
• Israeli gas finds could prove a game changer: sparks fly over Israel's discovery of vast gas fields under the eastern Mediterranean, threatening to ignite new hostilities with Lebanon and Syria.
• Strong signs of growth for Islamic banking: the continued expansion of the Islamic banking sector is one of the biggest trends in the global banking industry. Competition over the provision of Shariah-compliant financing is intensifying across the Middle East and North Africa, while the market is also taking off in a much wider range of countries further afield.
• GCC aviation investment to top $200 billion.
• Saudi Arabia plans 'socially acceptable' TV; Saudi Arabia has announced plans to launch a free digital terrestrial TV (DTT) platform for domestic audiences, along the lines of Britain's Freeview service. The service, due to launch in 2012, will offer "selected, socially acceptable channels" from the region, and possibly some foreign programmes, according to a Saudi deputy minister.
• Gulf diversifies into aluminium: aluminium smelting could offer MENA countries a competitive advantage with increased economic diversity.
• Mohammed Alshaya: M. H. Alshaya Company is one of the leading retailers in the Middle East and internationally, with some 1,900 stores throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Russia.
• The digital dilemma: digital photography continues to fascinate consumers with a spectacularly developing technology that presents only one problem--which model to choose.
• Going the extra mile: despite global warming, soaring fuel costs and the development of technology that connects us across thousands of miles via cyberspace, the world travel market continues to flourish and grow, embracing both tourist and business travel.
• Morocco plans $700 million resort.
• Destination: CAIRO.
• Concierge: the real experience.
• The writing on the Wall.
• The Olive Route.
• 1: Iran's Influence Across the Middle East and the World.
• 2: Wild Mulberries.
• 3: Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar.
• 4: Damascus, Taste of a City.
• 5: The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist.
• 6 Against the Wall the Art of Resistance in Palestine.
• Abu Dhabi Film Festival.