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twofour54 are funding media startups without business plans!

twofour54 are looking to invest in media startups in Abu Dhabi.

6th MIT Pan-Arab Conference: Global Energy Challenges & Opportunities

The 6th MIT Pan-Arab Conference: Global Energy Challenges & Opportunities takes place in Abu Dhabi November 9, 2009. Register here.

How China Sees the World and the Middle East

Interesting Q&A with Ben Simpendorfer on two pet obsessions China and the Middle East in The New Yorker.

Middle East Art Fund.

I have been working on setting up a Middle East contemporary art fund to take advantage of the macro trends taking place in the market.

Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.

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).

ouds and grass-roots in abu dhabi.

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 [...]