Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi reveals his own “conspiracy theory” for what some believe was a botched attempt by Etisalat to install surveillance software on its BlackBerry subscriber’s devices in September 2009). Read more »
CMA is Setting an Example
In the midst of the doom and gloom of the past 12 months, one market seemed to have bucked the trend and carried on with business as usual. Why Saudi Arabia’s Capital Market Authority (CMA) inspires confidence among the GCC’s small shareholders. Read more »
The Arabs Need a Nelson Mandela, Who Knows When to Go
We desperately need a visionary leader in the Arab world, monarch or republican, who steps aside and oversees in his lifetime a peaceful democratic transfer of power. That would truly be a “special case” that we could all be proud of. Read more »
A Jealous Wife’s Revenge Makes for Bad Law
Every once in a while, somewhere in the world, we come across a case that proves either overtly or implicitly that men can get away with things that women can’t. Read more »
I Don’t Want to Cause a Diplomatic Incident, But…
Members of the six UAE ruling families (who number in the thousands, many of them youngsters), members of the Federal National Council, Government ministers, ambassadors and envoys, advisers to the rulers and tribal sheikhs and their families are all entitled to a red travel booklet that carries the country’s national emblem — a UAE diplomatic passport. Read more »
Maan Al Sanea: What went wrong?
Sultan comments on what should be learned from Maan Al Sanea’s story of over-leverage and frozen assets.