News: Qatar National Convention Centre set to host one of the largest conferences in the world

Doha, 8 November: With less than three weeks to go, the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) has intensified its preparations to take centre stage and host Qatar’s largest conference to date – the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change 2012 (COP18/CMP8). The event which will take place from 26 November to 7 December is expected [...]

News: Entrepreneurs Organisation Qatar, appoints new president

Doha, 7 November: The Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Qatar chapter has announced the appointment of Mohamed Jaidah as President to EO Qatar for the 2012-2013 year, under the international Entrepreneurs Organisation. The organisation brings together some of the most influential and socially aware entrepreneurs in Qatar, in an attempt to help their members learn and grow [...]

Interview: Khalid Al Jaber, A serial entrepreneur

As CEO of Innovation Group, Khalid Al Jaber is a 35-year-old Qatari who is involved in all four of his company’s divisions, in the information technology sector and filmmaking, as well model building for the construction, real estate and oil and gas industries, through the German-based Innovation GmbH. Al Jaber is also executive director of [...]

Virtualising Qatar’s Businesses

The virtualisation of business organisations and the challenges in the networking and data management industry TheEDGE spoke exclusively with Nimer Ghazal, country manager for Brocade Qatar about the virtualisation of business functions, the move to cloud based applications and the challenges for companies in managing their data in a time of information explosion. What is [...]

Qatar’s atomic future

Nuclear energy analyst provides evidence of Qatar’s atomic power ambitions by Jamie Stewart Evidence has emerged that the Qatar Ministry of Energy and Industry is moving forwards with its programme to develop nuclear power in the country. State-owned energy giant Qatar Petroleum is seeking to employ a senior nuclear energy analyst, with responsibilities including playing [...]

Is Management Ideology the last bastion of American hegemony?

Here is a tricky question: How many living management gurus did not learn their trade in North America? The London Business Schoolís Julian Birkinshaw, who has presented this condundrum to many of his esteemed international colleagues, writes that it is not easy to come up with a list of top experts who are not American, [...]

News: New NGO launched to enhance research and sustainability in Qatar

Doha, 25 October: As part of Qatar’s investment and long-term commitment to the environment, the Qatar Sustainability Network (QSN) was officially launched in Doha yesterday. At the launch, Nadia Aboul Hosn interim board member at QSN outlined the mandate as a network to cultivate a culture of research, science, and sustainability through active engagement of civil [...]

Vol 4 Issue 10 Oct 2012

This month’s cover story in about one of Qatar’s more contentious investments, The Shard, a skyscraper that sits on the bank of the river Thames in central London. We take a look at the differing sentiments it has generated from Londoners and Qatar’s role in the project. In this issue we also look at the [...]


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Qatar’s atomic future

Nuclear energy analyst provides evidence of Qatar’s atomic power ambitions by Jamie Stewart Evidence has emerged that the Qatar Ministry of Energy and Industry is moving forwards with its programme to develop nuclear power in the country. State-owned energy giant Qatar Petroleum is seeking to employ a senior nuclear energy analyst, with responsibilities including playing [...]

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Electrifying the Gulf: The GCC’s Power Paradox

With power consumption rising and some countries struggling to match demand with supply, the Middle East is facing an issue that may surprise many: a potential energy shortage in a fossil fuel-rich region. Edward Jameson investigates the issue and Qatar’s potential position in the region’s potential power provision. When viewed on a macro scale, the [...]

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Power-Gen Middle East 2012 Conference Director Nigel Blackaby

Scheduled for February 2102, Power-Gen Doha will be the 10th Power-Gen Middle East event and the second time it has been held in the Qatari capital, this time alongside the WaterWorld conference. Power-Gen is a conference and exhibition run by PennWell, which is positioning itself as the premiere event of its kind in the region. [...]

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WaterWorld Conference Director Tom Freyberg

In an exclusive interview with TheEDGE, Tom Freyberg, conference director for the WaterWorld Middle East conference and exhibition, which is scheduled to be held in Doha in February 2012, talks to Miles Masterson about the seriousness of water in the region and what topics will be covered at the event next year, including desalination water [...]

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Cummins MENA MD Rachid Ouenniche

For more than 30 years the Doha headquartered Jaidah Group have been distributing Cummins products in Qatar, but in 2011 the two companies took this close relationship to another level, launching a joint venture in response to the growing need for power generation in the country. Miles Masterson spoke exclusively to Cummins managing director of [...]

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