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Opinion: Last Stop for the Arab Revolutionary Train

by Dr. Hamad Al-Majid | May 12, 2013 | Opinion

No matter how desperately advocates of the Arab revolutions strive to justify the deplorable conditions in the states where these uprisings erupted, there is an unmistakable sense of frustration caused by their end results. This sense prevails even among some of the...

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An Egyptian youth wears a Guy Fawkes mask, trademark of the anonymous movement and based on a character in the film V for Vendetta, with writing on it reading in Arabic: “The people are not afraid of the ruler” during a demonstration in Cairo’s Tahrir square on January 31, 2013.
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Arab Economies Must Create Millions of Jobs, Warns UN Report

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 16, 2013 | Business

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The states of the Arab world must create millions of new jobs for their young people if they are to avoid serious economic and political problems, a new UN report warned this week. The organization’s annual Human Development Report was launched...

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Leaders and heads of delegations of Arab countries meet at the 3rd annual Economic and Social Development Summit, in the King Abdulaziz International Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 22, 2013 (SPA)

The economy in times of unrest

by Ali Ibrahim | Jan 22, 2013 | Opinion

The relationship between the economy and politics is like that of the chicken and the egg; which came first? On the one hand, there cannot be genuine and realistic economic development unless there is political and security stability, yet on the other hand the most...