Abu Dhabi is spending billions of dollars to transform itself into a global media hub. What will that mean for Dubai and Doha’s media ambitions?
The Economist says senior managers in Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are the world’s best paid (adjusted for taxes and living expenses)
I have put together a short presentation showcasing some of the upcoming museum projects in the Middle East for my art fund project and I am keeping a collection of relevant delicious links too. Pretty exciting!
A list of upcoming MBA sessions in the region
I received an email from the Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation on August 28 2008 (The Foundation is a really exciting initiative launched by the ruler of Dubai that runs a Fellowship Program offering scholarships for Arab MBA / MPP / MPA students).
As I first starting planning to applying to B-school back in 2005 or 2006 I ended up starting a few different GMAT prep programs without completing them. When I started studying properly I was scoring around 600 on the diagnosis tests. I ended up scoring 740 with the help of various courses / books etc: [...]
Sana Munasifi touches on a great point in her recent review of the Fifth Annual Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Festival. She highlights the recently opened Abu Dhabi branch of the Arabian Oud House as an example of the type of grass-roots, ground-up, regionally relevant and contextual initiative (= investment) that may ultimately produce results [...]