More Middle East residents plan to travel Gulf News | Dubai" Residents in the Middle East are in the mood to travel and are up for exploring their own neighbourhood in particular, a survey revealed. | Eyad Al Kourdi, MasterCard Worldwide vice-president and country manager UAE, said: "Personal travel is an important priority for many consume...
Saudi Arabia decision angers tourism sector Gulf News | Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has stopped granting of visas to those who wish to visit the kingdom only for tourism, Gulf News learnt on Monday. | The kingdom, to which people mainly come for Haj, Umrah or to visit Prophet Mohammad's (PBUH) mosque in Madinah, issued 6,000 tourist visas in 2008, which ...
Hot spots: New trips to the Middle East The Guardian | More and more of us are heading to north Africa and the Middle East, and there are plenty of new trips to these ancient lands Get off the beaten track in Jordan. Photograph: Alamy | Tour operators are reporting a sharp rise in bookings to the Middl...
Settlements in West Bank Are Clouding Peace Talks The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators cleared the first hurdle on Thursday in their elusive quest for Middle East peace: they agreed to keep talking, two weeks from now in Egypt. Multimedia Slide Show Leaders Gather for Mideast Tal...
UAE Bridges at Risk in Very Strong Earthquake Zone Insurance Newsnet | DUBAI, UAE, September 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- | - According to the Latest Globe of Natural Hazards Report Released in August by Global Reinsurance Company Munich Re, the UAE has the Potential to Produce "Very Strong" Earthquakes of up to 5.9 in Mag...
Mayfair Evolves and Real Estate Prices Blossom The New York Times | LONDON — What could be more English than Mayfair? Elegant Georgian townhouses and solid Edwardian mansions line the streets of this sophisticated neighborhood, which has been a haven for the rich since the Great Plague and then the fire of 16...
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Dubai camel dairy hopes to milk health food market Houston Chronicle | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The camels know the drill by heart. | Just after dawn, they file on their own - always in groups of 12 - into metal stalls for milking. Workers atta...
Dubai Camel Milk Producers Hope To Export 'Camelicious' Brand Huffington Post | DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- The camels know the drill by heart. | Just after dawn, they file on their own -- always in groups of 12 -- into metal stalls for milking. Work...
Jordan's king to visit Saudi Arabia Sunday ahead of US trip m&c | Amman - Jordanian King Abdullah II is traveling Sunday to Saudi Arabia for consultations with the Saudi leadership ahead of his trip to Washington to attend a six-way meeting on ...
Shakedown by Jamaica's radical sheik CNN Radical cleric now living in Jamaica | (CNN) -- He has influenced convicted terrorists such as Richard Reid, the so-called shoe-bomber. His sermons were found in the apartment of suicide bombers who struck London, England, in 2005. Even one of the 9/...
A Symposium: What Is Moderate Islam? Wall Street Journal | Editor's Note: The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers to answer the question: What is moderate Islam? | •Anwar Ibrahim: The Ball Is in Our ...
What Is Moderate Islam? Wall Street Journal | Editor's Note: The controversy over a proposed mosque in lower Manhattan has spurred a wider debate about the nature of Islam. We asked six leading thinkers to answer the question: What is moderate Islam? | The Ball Is in Our Court | By Anwar Ibrah...
IEA Predicts Greater Reliance on OPEC Oil Wall Street Journal By RAKESH SHARMA | NEW DELHI—The global dependency on the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for oil will rise in the next five to 10 years as production by non-OPEC nations declines, the chief of the International Energy Agency said Friday. | "We have seen an increase in non-OPEC supplies. But in the mid-term, non-O...
