[caption id="attachment_55233677" align="aligncenter" width="620"] A logo of Bank Islam Malaysia is seen at the bank's headquarters in Kuala Lumpur[/caption]Ironically, the global financial crisis…

[caption id="attachment_55233662" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An investor watches his stocks at a securities exchange in Shanghai on August 22, 2012. Chinese shares were down 0.34 percent in…

[caption id="attachment_55233273" align="aligncenter" width="620"] An armed National Transitional Council (NTC) fighter provides security inside the Zawiya Oil Refinery, some 40 km west of Tripoli,…

[caption id="attachment_55232601" align="aligncenter" width="620"] Riyadh by night - Saudi's economy must diversify to sustain itself in the long term[/caption]Saudi Arabia’s role as a leading…

[caption id="attachment_55232311" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A man walks with his bread bought from Magra El-Oyoun market on January 24, 2012 in Cairo, Egypt."][/caption] A decade ago,…

[caption id="attachment_55231910" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="An Iraqi petroleum worker walks past a gas burn off flame in the Anzalla oil fields in the Ninewa Province of Northern Iraq"…

[caption id="attachment_55231770" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="A Tunisian vendor sells dried fruit before an election poster in Tunis"][/caption] A year after the revolution in Tunisia…

[caption id="attachment_552305" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Robert Cianflone/Getty Images"][/caption] The six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have emerged as influential…

[caption id="attachment_55229758" align="aligncenter" width="586" caption="Tunisia’s Minister of Tourism, Elyes Fakhfakh, recently signed a cooperation agreement with the UNWTO "][/caption]The World…

[caption id="attachment_55229380" align="aligncenter" width="620" caption="Protesters in Berlin against military action in Iran (PA)"][/caption] The United Nations and its individual members…