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 [...]


RecentArticles: Economic barometer

The Arab Spring: Price of Freedom

Through his book The Price of Freedom, to be published exclusively in TheEDGE for the next few issues prior to its official public release, Karim Nakhle, the Middle Eastern economist and monthly contributor to TheEDGE’s Economic Barometer section, identifies the impact of the Arab Spring so far, its major cost, winners, losers and the future [...]

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Previewing Qatar’s delayed 2012 national budget

Many were eagerly awaiting Qatarís much-anticipated State Budget for the 2012 fiscal year, which is usually announced on April 1. However, the cabinet decided to push back the budget announcement to the end of May because of changes to the government’s accounting system and the way it prepares budgets. Karim Nakhle looks at the unexpected [...]

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Greece’s Marriage of Necessity to the Eurozone

European political and financial leaders met recently to thrash out a second bailout agreement for the belueagured Greek economy, which has been floundering for some time now, threatening to sink much if not all of the eurozone – and potentially the world’s economy – with it. Karim Nakhle looks at the pros and cons of [...]

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Preventing another global meltdown

The world’s major central banks announced concerted emergency measures to underpin fragile eurozone banks and prevent the global financial system from freezing up. Karim Nakhle looks at the measures being taken internationally and regionally to prevent another global meltdown. Economists have said repeatedly that the European Central Bank (ECB) is not the solution to the [...]

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The ‘Two-Speed’ Global Economy

What does 2012 hold in store? Will this year be as surprising and volatile as 2011? Karim Nakhle looks at the forecast and outlook of the global economy for 2012 with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa regional expectations. Most will have heard of the dreaded ‘double dip recession’ and a ‘u, [...]

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The Khaleeji Currency Revisited

The single Khaleeji currency has been a long awaited dream of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Europe had a similar vision called the euro – and turned out be the region’s worst nightmare a decade later. Karim Nakhle gives an insight to the pros and cons if the Arab states were to implement a single [...]

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2012: The New ‘Two Speed’ Global Economy

What does 2012 hold in store? Will this year be as surprising and volatile as 2011? Karim Nakhlelooks at the forecast and outlook of the global economy for 2012 with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa regional expectations.Most will have heard of the dreaded ‘double dip recession’ and a ‘u, v or [...]

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The Khaleeji Currency Revisited

The single Khaleeji currency has been a long awaited dream of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Europe had a similar vision called the euro – and turned out be the region’s worst nightmare a decade later. Karim Nakhle gives an insight to the pros and cons if the Arab states were to implement a single [...]

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Salary Rises Vs Inflation in The Gulf

While many employees and public sector workers in the Middle East have recently celebrating the few extra dollars they received on their latest pay-rise and salary increases, what has not been considered is the possible consequences on the inflation and their everyday spending. Karim Nakhle looks at the pros and cons this growing trend of [...]

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The Next CEO to sit on the Throne

Karim Nakhlelooks at the growing trend of chief executive officers either stepping down or being fired recently; something gaining ground in the region and also known as ‘CEO Churn’.A good board cannot make a company, but a bad one will inevitably kill it. One may recall Carol Bartz’s dramatic exit from Yahoo or even Leo [...]

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