How FIFA turned the World Cup into a giant cash cow

Billions of dollars are streaming into the Swiss-based organisation from broadcasting rights, advertising revenue, and ticket and hospitality sales, but have the fans been left high and dry?

Abdulfattah Khattab

Fear of Contagion

[caption id="attachment_55227180" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="The eurozone crisis will have an effect upon the MENA region"][/caption] Europe stands at the precipice. With a near…

Dominic Mealy

Lessons in Reform

[caption id="attachment_55226907" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Can the economy be turned around in Egypt?"][/caption] Egypt’s economy is in a serious post-revolutionary slump; economic…

Killian Clarke

It’s the Economy Stupid

[caption id="attachment_55226677" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A tunisian protester confronts riot police with a baguette"][/caption] One of the most memorable images of the…

Paula Mejia

Back to Basics

[caption id="attachment_55226581" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="An Egyptian seamstress works at a foreign owned textile factory in the free zone of Port Said"][/caption] Earlier this…

Rick Rowden

PENTAGON INC.

[escenic_image id="55220796"]You are an accountant tasked with evaluating the world’s largest conglomerate. Its finances are so poorly managed that they have been rendered all but unintelligible each…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

A Symptom, Not an Illness

[escenic_image id="55175022"] Recent reports of an escalation in Saudi Arabia’s rate of inflation have raised concerns that the kingdom may be on the verge of careening into another bout of high…

Killian Clarke