The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

Charbel Barakat

Time to Invest?

[escenic_image id="5537561"] Sovereign Debt and Market Confidence When EU Finance Ministers met in Brussels on 16 February to consider Greece’s budget deficit and public debt divergence from the…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

Great Expectations

[escenic_image id="5522874"]Is China about to revalue its national currency, the renminbi? As its economy heads into a second year of rapid recovery from the economic crisis, rumours are circulating…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine

A Slippery-Slope

[escenic_image id="5519557"]The Dubai World debt rescheduling certainly provided dramatic effect for newspapers and media outlets around the world.  The economist titled its article about the Abu…

Majalla: The Leading Arab Magazine