It's the biggest film industry in the Middle East and known as the Hollywood of the Arab world. Veteran players like actor, Omar Sharif and director, Youssef Chahine are known to film fans the world over.
High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
Although the cost of a barrel of crude jumped more than 40 percent this year to over $90 in October, the spike was driven more by jitters about unrest in the Middle East and forecasts of strong demand than by a drop in supply.
General Electric Co. has signed three new deals in the Middle East worth a combined $1.8 billion, highlighting the region's importance to the U.S. industrial conglomerate.
In 1982, during a period of dangerous stalemate in the Middle East peace process, I gave a speech at Georgetown University about the critical need for a more engaged and balanced role for the United States in the region.
This has certainly been an anxious year for investors, but the final results haven't been bad at all. Blue chips, in particular, have turned in impressive results.
The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former 9/11 Commission Co-Chair, Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, has been at work for eight months to develop an assessment of the war in Iraq and new policy recommendations.
President Bush made a case for democracy and moderate voices in the Middle East Tuesday, challenging world leaders to play a supportive role and rejecting claims that the West is at war with Islam.
It's the biggest film industry in the Middle East and known as the Hollywood of the Arab world. Veteran players like actor, Omar Sharif and director, Youssef Chahine are known to film fans the world over.
High-technology services across large tracts of Asia, the Middle East and North Africa were crippled Thursday following a widespread Internet failure which brought many businesses to a standstill and left others struggling to cope.
Although the cost of a barrel of crude jumped more than 40 percent this year to over $90 in October, the spike was driven more by jitters about unrest in the Middle East and forecasts of strong demand than by a drop in supply.
General Electric Co. has signed three new deals in the Middle East worth a combined $1.8 billion, highlighting the region's importance to the U.S. industrial conglomerate.
In 1982, during a period of dangerous stalemate in the Middle East peace process, I gave a speech at Georgetown University about the critical need for a more engaged and balanced role for the United States in the region.
This has certainly been an anxious year for investors, but the final results haven't been bad at all. Blue chips, in particular, have turned in impressive results.
The bipartisan Iraq Study Group, led by former Secretary of State James Baker, a Republican, and former 9/11 Commission Co-Chair, Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, has been at work for eight months to develop an assessment of the war in Iraq and new policy recommendations.
President Bush made a case for democracy and moderate voices in the Middle East Tuesday, challenging world leaders to play a supportive role and rejecting claims that the West is at war with Islam.
Seems like only a couple of weeks ago, everyone was worried that oil was on its way to $100 a barrel. Since then, the oil price has fallen 15 percent to below $66.
State of play in the Middle East: Lebanon, extensively damaged plus a half-million refugees; Syria, tired of being dissed; Israel, disproportionate. Are you kidding? Did it work last time they occupied Lebanon? Condi Rice, undercut by neocons at home? Iraq, completely fallen apart. Iran, only winner? Everybody else, mad at Bush. Most under-covered story, collapse of Iraq.
We Americans like to think we're a pretty smart people, even when evidence to the contrary is overwhelming. And nowhere is that evidence more overwhelming than in the Middle East. History in the Middle East is everything, and we Americans seem to learn nothing from it.
U.S. stock markets were pointing to a flat open Tuesday as higher oil and global tension were being balanced by better than expected earnings results from some blue chip companies.
The world's most densely populated capitals are familiar with traveling exhibitions that bring large numbers of fantastically rare objects from around the world and put them on display for the general public to enjoy.
On the day suicide bombers blew themselves up in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Dahab, I switched the TV in the Atlanta anchor office to Egyptian television. I wanted to see how local media were covering the news of the triple bombing that killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens more on April 24th.
Thinking about giving a Japanese business partner a gift bearing the words "made in China", or ordering an Italian colleague an after lunch cappuccino? Think again.
While the world sees the Middle East as a hotbed of tension and geopolitical strife, brand-name purveyors of American fashion, entertainment and luxury products are eager to bulk up their business, particularly in the region's lucrative retail markets.
Denmark's leaders are calling for calm and dialogue as the nation finds itself under increasing pressure over the cartoons depicting Islam's revered Prophet Mohammed.
General Motors will take the occasion of the Winter Olympics in Italy to begin telling Americans about a topic that has nothing to do with skiing or bobsledding. Believe it or not, the once-great automaker will stake its position as a friend of the environment and as a promoter of ethanol, specifically a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline called E85.
CNN International is turning its "Eye on the Middle East" with a wide-ranging and engaging week of special programming focusing on the people of this critical region, the prospects they embrace, and the problems they face.
November sees CNN International turning its "Eye on the Middle East" with a wide-ranging and engaging week of special programming focusing on the people of this critical region, the prospects they embrace, and the problems they face.
The airline industry is in trouble in the United States. But elsewhere, it's blue skies and big opportunity--especially for niche players in regions with only one major airline. Launching at the en...
Zooming gas prices, plus the usual bad news from the Middle East, naturally raise the question: What else can we do? Quite a lot, actually. And if the price of oil sticks above $40 a barrel, the dy...
More than twice as many adults in Britain, France and Germany believe the Gaza disengagement plan will help the Middle East peace process rather than hinder it, according to the findings of a new CNN/TIME poll conducted by TNS, and published Monday.
The Middle East is becoming one of the planet's most fertile mobile-phone markets. By 2008 the number of wireless subscribers in the area is expected to swell to 110 million, up from 44 million in ...
President Bush on Wednesday night reiterated his second-term commitments to win the war on terrorism, and spread freedom and democracy throughout the Middle East -- from Iraq to Israel to the Palestinian territories.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is traveling Monday to the Middle East where he will promote an international conference he plans to host in London after next month's Palestinian election. CNN's European Political Editor Robin Oakley spoke to anchor Tony Campion about the visit.
The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was raising hopes among investors Thursday that there may be an opening for peace in the long-troubled Middle East.
President Bush on Tuesday delivered a wide-ranging speech extolling what he described as a rise of freedom in the Middle East and the Muslim world; asserting that the return of sovereignty in Iraq is a clear defeat for terrorists; and lauding Turkey as a model of democracy.
U.S. Treasury prices dropped Thursday in an initial reaction to firm inflation and jobs figures, although the losses were limited amid additional unrest in the Middle East.
"Completing the five steps to Iraqi elected self-government will not be easy. There's likely to be more violence before the transfer of sovereignty and after the transfer of sovereignty. The terrorists and Saddam loyalists would rather see many Iraqis die than have any live in freedom.
Jordan's King Abdullah II called on fellow Arab leaders Saturday to unite against a "culture of terror and destruction" and enact sweeping changes to bring democracy to the Middle East.
Treasury prices rose Monday as investors looked to fixed-income securities amid concerns of further violence in the Middle East and political turmoil in Asia.
War, we all know, is hell. It's not too good for economies either. The continuing instability in Iraq and the renewed fighting between Israelis and Palestinians are having corrosive effects on busi...
In the 1990s, Wall Street was a fairly parochial place. Its focus was really on itself, on the markets, on hot stocks and on the investor buying binge. But these days Wall Street has to contend wit...
Back in January, our "Best Investments for 2002" featured eight stocks we thought could beat the market this year. So far, four of our stocks have done so. But it's been a tough eight months, with ...
Let's lay out a few facts about these turbulent times: After back-to-back years of a tumbling stock market, investors face the ugly prospect of a three-peat. The dollar is diving, corporate profits...
To appreciate America's energy predicament in the post-Sept. 11 world, you don't have to visit the oil fields of Texas and Alaska or journey to East-of-Suez OPEC strongholds like Kuwait and Saudi A...
They started hauling the bodies out about 36 hours after the attack. A day and a half to let the fires burn, to sift through the rubble and ash that was once the citadel of American capitalism and ...
People have worried that the world will run out of oil almost since Colonel Drake drilled the first well in Pennsylvania in 1859. As early as 1874, Pennsylvania's chief geologist predicted that ker...
It's in the air, everywhere: recession scare. Most FORTUNE 500 CEOs responding to the magazine's latest survey expect one soon (see The Economy/CEO Poll). More than half the Blue Chip consensus now...
Fear of a Middle East war sent stocks tumbling and bond yields soaring in August. Small stocks were pummeled worst, falling 13%, while blue-chip Dow stocks slipped 10%. Meanwhile, inflation fears p...
August was the cruelest month. As oil prices shot from $18 to $32 a barrel, stock and bond prices plunged, handing small investors their biggest losses since the 1987 stock market crash. For the mo...
Faster than you can say $30 a barrel, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait transformed the prevailing attitude on the economy from guarded optimism to low-grade anxiety. Growth had turned feeble eve...
HIGHER OIL prices have raised simmering worries about the economy to a boil. The small band of forecasters who expect recession -- some say a downturn started last spring -- is growing and getting ...
Tumult in the Middle East has cast a pall over the stock and bond markets but lit a fire under anything associated with oil. Shares of the big oil producers were the first thing most investors boug...
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