20-year old Ahmed Baraka from the war-torn Gaza Strip in Palestine has arrived in Bristol this week to begin his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at UWE. He is the first student from Gaza to be awarded the University of the West... Read more
Bahrain’s Seera Investment bank inks deal for London student housing property; slated to open in 2013
Read moreUK-based Bourn Hall Clinic, the world’s original IVF clinic, has launched its first services in the UAE. Its state-of-the-art fertility and assisted conception facility has opened in the Sheikh Hamdan Centre in Dubai
Read moreIn his biographies of Yasser Arafat, Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saddam Hussein, Said Aburish highlighted his aversion to dirty dealing and dictatorship
Read moreLondon’s new cable car system, made possible by a $56m sponsorship deal with Dubai’s Emirates Airline, has carried more than one million passengers in its first nine weeks of operation
Read moreIn September 2011, King Abullah announced that women would be eligible to sit in the council for the first time. Authorities in Saudi Arabia are expected to name 30 women to the kingdom’s consultative Shoura Council before the start of its... Read more
UK’s Carillion sees MidEast revenues slump in H1 Revenues from construction services in region fall by 21%; sees slowdown in Abu Dhabi
Read moreUK-based phone giant Vodafone is close to an agreement with Kuwait’s Mobile Telecommunications Co, also known as Zain, to expand access to Middle East networks, it was reported on Friday
Read moreOver 160 objections filed to stop new top level names such as .gay, .wine and .casino Saudi Arabia’s Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) has filed over 160 objections about proposed generic top level domain names... Read more
Three of the Britain’s 20 most wanted tax fugitives are thought to be living in Dubai, authorities said after taking the unusual step of releasing the names and details of the country’s biggest tax evaders
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