Tropospheric ozone effects on the productivity of some crops in central Saudi Arabia.
INTRODUCTION The climatic record of the Middle East region for the past five years showed that there were fluctuations in the temperature and a decrease in rainfall over large portions (1). Human activities in Saudi Arabia such as burning fossil fuels and changes in land use that...

Research and Markets Adds Report: Consumer Technology Trends in the Middle East's Persian Gulf Region.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-14 October 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: Consumer Technology Trends in the Middle East's Persian Gulf Region(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Consumer Technology Trends in the Middle East's Persian Gulf Region" report to its offerings....

BNY ConvergEx Group Expands Global Transition Management Business with Middle East Senior Appointment.
NEW YORK and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- BNY ConvergEx Group, LLC, a leading provider of global agency brokerage and investment technology solutions, today announced the appointment of Motaz Ibrahim as Vice President and Head of Product Sales for BNY Global Transition Management in the Middle...

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East.
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 191 pages. $13.00. In Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky provide a peerless example of sound public-policy analysis, in...

Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia.
Talking to the Enemy: Track Two Diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia. By Dalia Dassa Kaye. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND, 2007. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Pp. xxv, 139. $25.00 Paperback (lower prices available for active duty members) ISBN: 978-0-83304191-3 For those interested in the question of...

ARAB ISRAEL - Aug 17 - Israel To Release 200 Palestinians As Rice Visits Middle East.
Israel's Cabinet votes to release about 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas aimed at bolstering slow-moving US-backed Middle East peace talks. The August 25 release will coincide with a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice aimed at encouraging the negotiations, which have...

Middle East/North Africa Relies on Many News Sources; National and international TV most important in region.
Byline: Adam Sitte Synopsis: Across the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region, citizens consider several types of media "very important" in keeping them informed about world events, with a preference for international and national television. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Gallup Polls conducted between 2005 and 2008 across...

Airline News - Africa / Middle East.
Sep 1, 2008 Air Arabia Air Arabia will launch four-times-weekly Sharjah-Nairobi service on Oct. 26. Sep 3, 2008 Emirates Airlines Emirates' second A380 will be delayed by a "few weeks," the airline said. Emirates Airlines started commercial service with its first...

The Top 100 Arab banks: the Arab banking boom still booming: the financial services industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region led by top-tier banks is experiencing significant growth, in terms of banking assets, profitability and innovations. Researched, written and table compiled by economic analyst.
SPIRALLING OIL PRICES--extending above $145 a barrel in the summer--have enriched the prospects of many regional banks as well as profits for calendar 2008, despite an unabated global credit crunch and mountainous bad debts hitting the balance sheets of western banking giants (notably UBS and Citigroup). One observer put...

Airline News - Africa / Middle East.
Sep 8, 2008 Air Arabia Air Arabia will launch four-times-weekly Sharjah-Nairobi service on Oct. 26. Sep 3, 2008 El Al Israel Airlines El Al Israel Airlines said on Sunday it would cut its fuel surcharge by 20 to 30 percent on...