[caption id="attachment_55227435" align="aligncenter" width="619" caption="A rare tourist takes pictures of a wall decorated with posters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the old city of…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[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…

[escenic_image id="55217664"]Chinese construction giants charged with realizing Algeria’s project to create the longest highway in Africa have yet to pay Algerian construction companies in their…

[escenic_image id="55199462"]If one thing is clear about the outcome of the G20 meeting in Seoul, South Korea, it is that the United States left the summit worse off than it began. China and Germany…

[escenic_image id="55193060"]Back in 2007, before terms like subprime mortgages and credit default swaps entered our vernacular, the world’s policymakers found themselves facing a far more basic, if…

[escenic_image id="55180075"]That many countries have gradually turned to migrant remittances as a form of development finance is no secret. Migrant remittances make up an important component of…