Perot Systems Awarded Contract to Implement Health Information System in Kingdom of Jordan.
Leading Healthcare IT provider grows its operations in the Middle East LONDON, Dec .4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Perot Systems Corporation (http://www.perotsystems.com/) today announced that The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has selected the company to manage the pilot deployment of VistA - an open source clinical and healthcare information...

This year is the tenth anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA).
This year is the tenth anniversary of the passage of the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). In every daily Mass I include a petition for "our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ"--usually with particular reference to the Middle East, North Korea, China, or some other place of notorious oppression....

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...

Gunning for the gunrunners: the arrest of three men who are allegedly the world's most notorious arms dealers may shed some light on their murky demi-monde in the Middle East.
THREE MEN--an Israeli, a Russian and a Syrian--are behind bars in Moscow, Madrid and Bangkok. All are known as leading figures in the murky world of arms trafficking. All face judicial proceedings, including extradition, that could lift the veil on their deadly business and its links to the Middle...

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...

Airline Finance News - Africa / Middle East.
7/21/2008 Royal Jordanian, Austrian Airlines Royal Jordanian is preparing an offer for the Austrian state's stake in loss-making Austrian Airlines and may present it as early as next week, an Austrian newspaper reported on Friday. Royal Jordanian, which was the first Arab airline to be...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense Africa / Middle East.
Sep 1, 2008 Lockheed Martin The Israeli Air Force on August 25 transferred its Boeing 707 tanker/transport and Lockheed Martin C-130 tactical transport fleets from a facility adjacent to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion international airport to a newly built part of Nevatim air base in...

Airline Finance News - Africa / Middle East.
7/14/2008 EgyptAir EgyptAir's fleet of 50 aircraft is scheduled to increase to 75 by 2013. It carried more than 6.8 million passengers in the 10 months ended April 30, up 20% year-over-year. 7/14/2008 EgyptAir, South African Airways, Star Alliance EgyptAir and...

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...