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A Wave Of M&A Megadeals In MENA
What started as a reaction to falling oil prices has spread from energy to banking and other sectors of the regional economy.
Country Report
Qatar: Resilience And Growth
The tiny emirate can rely on natural gas, infrastructure projects, foreign investment—and the World Cup—to weather a blockade by its neighbors.
Features
Growing Ethically: Q&A with Qatar National Bank Acting Group CEO Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa
Abdulla Mubarak Al-Khalifa, Acting Group CEO Qatar National Bank (QNB), talks about the bank’s performance, compliance and expansion plans.
Features
Qatar’s Dollar Diplomacy
The emirate’s deep pockets are helping it secure new and deeper trade and investment ties in an end run around the Saudi economic embargo.
News
OPEC Pushes Back With Production Cut
OPEC is trying to bolster oil prices but Gulf economies will take a hit from a production cut.
Country Report
Qatar: Plans To Grow Despite Pressure
The world’s biggest LNG producer is finding ways to bypass a Saudi-led blockade—and even to turn the economic challenge in its favor.
Features
Benefiting From Diversity: Q&A With QInvest’s CEO Tamim Al-Kawari
As Qatar diversifies its economy away from oil revenues, QInvest CEO Tamim Al-Kawari says it sees strong growth potential across a range of industry sectors ranging from healthcare, agriculture and education to industrials.
Features
Business Unusual: Q&A With International Bank of Qatar’s Managing Director
Amid talks of a merger between is bank and two others, Omar Bouhadiba, managing director International Bank of Qatar (IBQ), talks about the domestic market, mitigating impacts of the blockade, banking innovations and what-if scenarios.
Features
MENA’s Big Tech Boom
High-speed 5G networks and Cloud data centers are giving digital efforts across the region a big boost.
Features
Mideast Markets Curb Appeal
Following a period of relatively subdued infrastructure and real estate activity, 2017 was a better year in the Middle East; and 2018 should record more improvement. Transport-related projects remain essential to the region’s growth, but the most crucial area remains ...
Features
New Realities, New Technologies
The Middle East is striving to adapt to rapid economic and social change—with some success.