Saudi women’s push for rights no easy task
Perhaps this revolution will have to come from the top. There is a push for women's rights in Saudi Arabia today, though it is hardly a mass movement yet. Women...
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Trade, culture clash as Saudis debate future
As Mohamed Al-Mady leaves his office at petrochemical giant Saudi Basic Industries Corp., he steps between contrasting images etched in black granite. Behind him stands the scene of an ancient,...
Peace could flow from effort to save Dead Sea
The Jordan River is not deep or wide. This is bad news for the Dead Sea, which is evaporating fast because the Jordan's trickle no longer replenishes the salty body...
Jordan fuels free-trade hopes; realities intrude
Armed conflict with Iraq and economic turmoil since the 9/11 attacks doesn't sound like a promising business climate. But it adds up to surprising predictability for Rudain Kawar. Kawar runs...
Jordan no-shows display a world of ignorance
This was the chance for businesspeople to make a difference. This was the chance for the "Davos man" leaders to show there is more to their global engagement than the...
Globalization faces ultimate test in Mideast
Meeting in the Middle East this weekend to promote globalization is a triumph of optimism over experience. The globalization movement never has done well here, even before political backlash and...
Galvin, without plan, on course to nowhere
Forget the Chicago school of economics. That free-market blather is old hat. If you want something interesting, take a look at the way Chicago is schooling the rest of the...
If United wants to stay afloat, beach `Starfish’
People who know the airline industry and care about United Airlines keep hoping United will just spike the idea of a low-cost carrier. When United declared bankruptcy last December, it...
SBC’s rivals strike pay dirt with legal play
It looked like a real waste of time when AT&T and MCI made a federal case out of the law SBC jammed through the General Assembly last month. The play...
Celebrity plays leading role in this stock act
In the United States we have the right to a presumption of innocence. But protestations of innocence, well, that's different. Those sometimes lead to findings of guilt. In Martha Stewart's...