Current AffairsCountdown to peace?
Peace is high on the agenda for 2000. Adel Darwish reports on the American-brokered Syrian-Israeli talks in West Virginia, the reaction of a concerned Israeli public and the prospects of a breakthrough in the near future.
- Syria/Israel: Towards a final agreement
- Palestine/Israel: The heart of the matter
- Abdullah Ocalan: The end of a myth
- Lebanon's millennium fireworks
- Syria at a crossroads
- A world apart: the Turkish military hierarchy
Business & Finance
Dolphin project surges ahead
One of the curious features of the six Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) countries is the low level of intra-GCC trade; they mainly sell oil and gas outside of the GCC, and import goods and services from outside the GCC, but do remarkably little trade with each other. This tends to limit the potential for further integration of the GCC into a regional trading bloc, as without significant trade between member countries, there is little incentive to harmonise taxes, tariffs and regulations. Neil Barnett reports.
- Entering the She Zone
- Syria's first GSM systems near completion
- UAE back to growth
- The perils of privatisation
- Egypt turns the corner
- Egypt: Financial Report
Mosaic
Music towards humanity
Lawrence Joffe talkes to the internationally acclaimed Lebanese flautist Wissam Boustany about his music and his inspiration.