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• L'Algérie et la Tunisie renforcent leurs liaisons aériennes

  04 août 2015 ( #Air Transport, #Airlines, #Airports, #Algeria, #Algerie, #Maghreb, #MENA, #Transport, #Tunisia )

  Tunis Air Selon La Presse de Tunis, citant le 31/07/2015 l’Office de l'Aviation Civile et des aéroports, l'Algérie et la Tunisie vont renforcer leurs liaisons aériennes en programmant l'augmentation du trafic aérien entre ces deux Etats afin d'arriver...

• World's cheapest places for building

  07 janvier 2016 ( #Building material, #Building material supply, #Doha, #Dubai, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #MENA, #Saudi Arabia, #Sports Facilities development, #Tall Building construction )

  Jeddah, Doha and Dubai among cheapest cities for Construction The National of the UAE published an article on the latest “International Construction Costs 2016” report of ARCADIS which stated that the city with the world’s highest building costs is New...

• Saudi Arabia aim to transform its Higher Education

  16 novembre 2015 ( #Administration, #Education, #Education sector, #Higher education, #Higher Education, #K S A, #MENA, #Saudi Arabia, #University Education )

  According to University World News, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is aiming to transform its higher education system. Ruwayshid Alruwaili writes in the issue #389 of the higher education news website that with the recent appointment of Dr. Azzam Al-Dakhil...

• The Silk Routes of the GCC

  08 août 2016 ( #Asia, #China, #Cross-border Transportation, #E-commerce, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #International trade, #saudi )

  by Eyman China as opposed to the United States driven by oil and the military industrial complex has developed special trade relationship based on the historically antique overland trade Silk Routes connecting China to Europe via the Middle East. The...

• Social Welfare in Algeria

  20 juin 2016 ( #Africa, #Algeria, #Democracy, #Human Resources, #MENA, #Social Networking, #Social progress, #Social Welfare, #Sustainable development )

  Algeria like all countries of North Africa must rethink its economic and social protection policies . . . Any Nation cannot distribute more than that it has produced, if it wants to avoid social drift. The development of new protection needs tends to...

• 6 most pressing environmental issues

  22 avril 2016 ( #Climate Change, #Environment, #Forests and natural vegetation, #Greening of the desert, #Integration of Nature, #MENA, #Pollution reduction, #Water supply, #World )

  Earth day was first organised back in 1970 and has since then grown into a global environment event that is celebrated every year by more than a billion people of more than 190 countries. 2016 would be the year where the Paris COP21 of December 2015 would...

• From Titans to Technolo-G’s !

  18 avril 2016 ( #3 G, #4 G, #Education sector, #Higher Education, #Information Technology, #MENA, #New Technologies, #Scientific research, #U K )

  From Titans to Technolo-G’s ! Hopefully I am coming to the end of a short spell of involuntary time-travel. Our washing machine broke down and while my husband attempted to fix it, I relived my student days in the 80’s and 90’s and drove off to look for...

• Mixed-use Real Estate Development and / or Destination Programming

  03 octobre 2015 ( #Buildings, #Construction Industry, #Dubai, #Environment, #GCC tourism, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #Real Estate, #Urban Planning, #World Tourism )

  TradeArabia News Service published an article dated 30 September on how to tell the intended calibre and principal character differences between buildings projects. Integrated destinations – not just mixed use projects by Sven P Gade In a region where...

• L'aéroport de Doha est parmi les meilleurs du monde

  28 mars 2016 ( #Air Transport, #Buildings, #Doha, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #Infrastructure, #Infrastructure development, #Infrastructure projects, #Qatar, #Transports systems in Qatar )

  L'information, rapportée par l'Observatoire du Qatar (19 mars 2016), cite le classement 2016 du cabinet d’audit britannique Skytrax des meilleurs aéroports du monde. Pour cette année, il est de nouveau dominé par le site de Singapour-Changi mais le nouvel...

• End of Globalization in the MENA ?

  09 janvier 2016 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Cross-border Transportation, #Diversification of the economy, #Emerging Markets, #Expatriate Workers, #Globalisation, #International Conference, #International retailers, #International trade )

  The Washington Post of 20 September 2015 published an editorial article that said : “FEW SUBJECTS arouse more political passion, pro and con, than globalization. Yet as the debate rolls on, the phenomenon itself may be coming to an end: The seemingly...

• Water in the Jordan Valley

  15 juin 2016 ( #Agriculture, #Environment, #Israel, #Jordan, #MENA, #Middle-East, #Power and Water, #Water, #Water supply )

  Jordan, a country that is almost land locked but for an narrow opening onto the Red Sea at Akaba, has a semi desert geography. Water in the Jordan Valley does provide some but because of this need of water, for populations of either side of the valley,...

• Un pont entre l’Égypte et l’Arabie Saoudite

  18 avril 2016 ( #Civil Engineering, #Design, #Egypt, #Environment, #Infrastructure projects, #K S A, #MENA, #Tourism, #Transport )

  La Croix (avec l'AFP) a rapporté le 09/04/2016 que l’Égypte et l’Arabie saoudite se sont mis d’accord pour construire un pont entre l’Égypte et l’Arabie saoudite, sur la mer Rouge reliant les deux pays, un projet extravagant qui vient une nouvelle fois...

• Push for another causeway ?

  08 octobre 2015 ( #Bahrain, #Construction engineering consultancy, #Consultants, #Engineering, #Environment, #Interstate Roads Network, #Railways, #Saudi Arabia, #Transport )

  Bahrain, being an island we have to be well connected to Saudi Arabia Push for another causeway ? Officials have been in discussions for many years over potential solutions for increasing capacity to serve the millions of Saudi and Bahraini commuters...

• Deep groundwater in the Sahara

  03 mai 2016 ( #Africa, #Algeria, #Education, #Environment, #Global warming, #MENA, #Renewable energy, #Water Supply )

  Northern aquifer system is charging? An article of Liberte-Algerie by Rabah Said dated April 28, 2016 elaborated on the Sahara underground water lakes. Until recently, these Deep groundwater in the Sahara were considered strictly fossil, meaning non renewable....

• Recession in the GCCs countries

  03 août 2016 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Budget, #Credit Control, #Diversification of the eeconomy, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #Monetary policies )

  In the MENA region these days, more specifically in the Gulf countries, and according to the local media, would Recession in the GCCs countries be local, regional or part of this global recessionary wave that is sweeping the world. As specified by local...

• China’s Stock Market Black Monday effets on the MENA ?

  25 août 2015 ( #Banking & Financial Institutions, #China, #Construction, #Finance Centres, #Finance performance, #Financial Power, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #MENA )

  An ordinary day in the GCC At a time when the luxurious ‘7 bedroom villa’ compound project in Dubai designed by famous architect Carlo Colombo is due for 2016; the ‘Town Square’ featuring over 3,000 townhouses and over 18,000 apartments spanning two new...

• Tokyo Sky Mile Tower to double Burj Khalifa

  09 février 2016 ( #Architecture, #Asia, #Building Tower, #Construction, #Environment, #MENA, #Super tall Structure, #Tall Building construction )

  PHOTOGRAPHY BY KOHN PEDERSEN FOX ASSOCIATES If the plans are accepted – ‘Sky Mile Tower’ would be surrounded by a series of man-made hexagonal islands, that are designed to protect Tokyo from flooding and act as foundation for homes for around half a...

• Le nouvel Aéroport International de Doha au Qatar

  23 novembre 2015 ( #Air Transport, #Aircrafts procurement, #Airlines, #Airports, #Doha, #Qatar, #Transport, #Transport Management )

  Hamad International Airport L'Aéroport International Hamad de Doha élu meilleur aéroport de la région ouest asiatique Selon l'observatoire du Qatar, l'Aéroport International Hamad (HIA) de Doha au Qatar a remporté le prix du meilleur aéroport à la première...

• Sovereign Bond Issuance in Algeria

  04 juillet 2016 ( #Algeria, #Banking & Financial Institutions, #Budget, #Budget Deficit, #Credit management, #Economic growth, #MENA, #Monetary policies )

  Bond issuance backed by Business Leaders : Interim results mixed fortunes . . . The purpose of this brief contribution is to ask questions starting with this one. What are the provisional results of the Sovereign Bond Issuance in Algeria, operation endorsed...

• Highly Emotionally Intelligent People,

  02 juin 2016 ( #Developed Countries, #Education, #Expatriate Manpower, #Human Development, #Human Resources, #International Education, #Leadership, #MENA )

  And their habits, according to Dr T. Bradberry . . . Dr. Travis Bradberry (see biography at the end of the article) posted a piece on Habits of Highly Emotionally Intelligent People, in Linkedin Pulse of May 30, 2016. It is here extensively reproduced:...

• The effects of Saudisation on universities

  05 juillet 2016 ( #Culture, #Democracy, #Economic development, #Education, #Education & Culture, #Employment, #Employment Conditions, #Expatriate Manpower, #Expatriate Workers, #Expatriate Workers salaries, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #Higher education, #Human Resources, #KSA, #MENA, #Saudi Arabia, #Saudisation, #University Education )

  Al Arabiya of September 5 th , 2013 informed that despite Saudi Arabia’s launch of initiatives to ensure better employment rates among its nationals, there is still a deficiency in the country’s labour market which affects its “competitiveness” in the...

• Fostering understanding between the Saudis and the US

  17 mars 2016 ( #Economic Cities, #Economic development, #Economic Freedom, #K S A, #Oil price, #Oil Production, #Saudi Arabia, #Socio-economic conditions )

  A new Saudi Arabian lobby group was launched in the United States in a bid to nurture the existing ties and develop a better understanding between the two countries. The Saudi American Public Relation Affairs Committee (SAPRAC) opened in Washington DC...

• MENA's oil exporting / importing countries growth in 2015 / 2016

  13 octobre 2015 ( #Budget, #Credit Control, #Gulf Cooperation Council, #MENA, #Oil price, #Oil Price, #Oil Production, #Oil supply and demand )

  MENA’s growth affected by refugees crisis and oil prices drop : IMF Qatar's Energy Minister Mohammad Al-Sada said last week that the oil price has bottomed out and there are signs that a recovery would take place in 2016. The Minister who is also the...

• Baisse des prix de l'immobilier en Algérie

  24 août 2015 ( #Algeria, #Algerie, #Housing, #Maghreb, #MENA, #Property market, #Propriété immobilière, #Real Estate )

  Selon TSA (22 aout 2015), les prix de l'immobilier ont largement baissés depuis janvier 2015 dans le nord de l'Algérie et ce malgré l’inflation importante et la baisse de la valeur du dinar. Ainsi selon TSA, "l’Algérie assiste pour la première fois, après...

• VTEC Media to be held in Abu Dhabi in November

  17 août 2015 ( #Abu Dhabi, #Education, #Employment, #Higher education, #Human Resources, #MENA, #Oil & Gas, #Vocational training )

  A recent piece in Gulf Industry News covered the coming Getenergy’s VTEC MENA 2015. That is the Middle East and North Africa’s (MENA) leading event for education and training for the oil and gas industry. During this event, approximately 300 leaders from...