News: Qatar National Convention Centre set to host one of the largest conferences in the world

Doha, 8 November: With less than three weeks to go, the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) has intensified its preparations to take centre stage and host Qatar’s largest conference to date – the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change 2012 (COP18/CMP8). The event which will take place from 26 November to 7 December is expected [...]

News: Entrepreneurs Organisation Qatar, appoints new president

Doha, 7 November: The Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Qatar chapter has announced the appointment of Mohamed Jaidah as President to EO Qatar for the 2012-2013 year, under the international Entrepreneurs Organisation. The organisation brings together some of the most influential and socially aware entrepreneurs in Qatar, in an attempt to help their members learn and grow [...]

Interview: Khalid Al Jaber, A serial entrepreneur

As CEO of Innovation Group, Khalid Al Jaber is a 35-year-old Qatari who is involved in all four of his company’s divisions, in the information technology sector and filmmaking, as well model building for the construction, real estate and oil and gas industries, through the German-based Innovation GmbH. Al Jaber is also executive director of [...]

Virtualising Qatar’s Businesses

The virtualisation of business organisations and the challenges in the networking and data management industry TheEDGE spoke exclusively with Nimer Ghazal, country manager for Brocade Qatar about the virtualisation of business functions, the move to cloud based applications and the challenges for companies in managing their data in a time of information explosion. What is [...]

Qatar’s atomic future

Nuclear energy analyst provides evidence of Qatar’s atomic power ambitions by Jamie Stewart Evidence has emerged that the Qatar Ministry of Energy and Industry is moving forwards with its programme to develop nuclear power in the country. State-owned energy giant Qatar Petroleum is seeking to employ a senior nuclear energy analyst, with responsibilities including playing [...]

Is Management Ideology the last bastion of American hegemony?

Here is a tricky question: How many living management gurus did not learn their trade in North America? The London Business Schoolís Julian Birkinshaw, who has presented this condundrum to many of his esteemed international colleagues, writes that it is not easy to come up with a list of top experts who are not American, [...]

News: New NGO launched to enhance research and sustainability in Qatar

Doha, 25 October: As part of Qatar’s investment and long-term commitment to the environment, the Qatar Sustainability Network (QSN) was officially launched in Doha yesterday. At the launch, Nadia Aboul Hosn interim board member at QSN outlined the mandate as a network to cultivate a culture of research, science, and sustainability through active engagement of civil [...]

Vol 4 Issue 10 Oct 2012

This month’s cover story in about one of Qatar’s more contentious investments, The Shard, a skyscraper that sits on the bank of the river Thames in central London. We take a look at the differing sentiments it has generated from Londoners and Qatar’s role in the project. In this issue we also look at the [...]


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News: Qatar National Convention Centre set to host one of the largest conferences in the world

Doha, 8 November: With less than three weeks to go, the Qatar National Convention Centre (QNCC) has intensified its preparations to take centre stage and host Qatar’s largest conference to date – the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change 2012 (COP18/CMP8). The event which will take place from 26 November to 7 December is expected [...]

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News: Entrepreneurs Organisation Qatar, appoints new president

Doha, 7 November: The Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Qatar chapter has announced the appointment of Mohamed Jaidah as President to EO Qatar for the 2012-2013 year, under the international Entrepreneurs Organisation. The organisation brings together some of the most influential and socially aware entrepreneurs in Qatar, in an attempt to help their members learn and grow [...]

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News: New NGO launched to enhance research and sustainability in Qatar

Doha, 25 October: As part of Qatar’s investment and long-term commitment to the environment, the Qatar Sustainability Network (QSN) was officially launched in Doha yesterday. At the launch, Nadia Aboul Hosn interim board member at QSN outlined the mandate as a network to cultivate a culture of research, science, and sustainability through active engagement of civil [...]

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News: Former Economy and Trade Minister for Qatar discusses the impact of the Arab Spring in his new book

Doha, 23 October: The most important issue for people in the Gulf region is whether their country is heading in the right direction for its system of governance to become durable and sustainable, fully supported by its people and capable of being defended from internal and external threats. In The Arab Spring and the Gulf States, [...]

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News: Sukuk issuances beats conventional bonds in the GCC

Doha, 24 October:  Corporate and infrastructure issuers in the Gulf region may increasingly rely on sukuk, the Islamic equivalent of bonds, as a source of funding in coming quarters says a report titled “Sukuk Are Surpassing Conventional Bond Issuance in the Gulf Countries as Yields Tighten,” published by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. Sukuk issuance [...]

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News: Doha seeks to grow as an intellectual and media hub in the region

Doha, 24 October: Katara, the Cultural Village and Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing announced yesterday that a memorandum of understanding had been signed that is set to reaffirm Doha’s stature as a growing intellectual and media hub in the region.Both organisations will work in partnership to initiate and support cultural activities through the development, production and distribution [...]

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News: ‘Digital Divide’ Research Supports Qatar’s New Research Strategy

Doha, 23 October: As Qatar celebrates the unveiling of its National Research Strategy, a group of Northwestern University in Qatar faculty and students are supporting the drive to a knowledge-based economy with research that will help institutions close the digital divide and provide a groundbreaking source of information for scholars of digital literacy. ‘Effective use of [...]

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News: Qatar a top healthcare spender in the world according to new report

Doha, July 30: The Qatar National Health Accounts Report – 2009 – 2010 (QNHA-1) was launched in June 2011 with the intention of aiding policy makers and providing a clear financial picture of the health system. Commissioned by the Supreme Council of Health (SCH), building on the same objectives have produced a new report with [...]

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News: Global Islamic Finance market set to double by 2015

Doha, 20 September: The Global Islamic Finance market is set to double in size between 2011 and 2015 with the sector increasingly viewed as a real alternative to conventional finance, according to Standard & Poor’s (S&P). Stuart Anderson, Managing Director & Regional Head, Middle East at Standard & Poor’s said “Issuers and investors have realised [...]

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News: Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg launch Islamic sukuk market indices

Both Thomson Reuters and Bloomberg have launched their own version of a global Islamic sukuk market index today. From Dubai in the United Arab Emirates Thomson Reuters announced their Global Sukuk Index, “to be used to monitor the performance of the sukuk market” while from Kuala Lampur Bloomberg launched their Malaysian Ringgit (MYR) corporate sukuk [...]

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