Briefly noted: and yet it moves!

Whoever wants to be briefly informed on economic projects within the Arabic World shoud visit the web site Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry e.V. on a regular basis. Ghorfa bietet neben spannenden Wirtschaftnachrichten aus der Region auch wertvolle Wirtschaftsberichte zum kostenlosen Download an! Darüber hinaus offeriert die Kammer ihr Magazin “Ghorfa-Wirtschaftsmagazin SOUQ” als E-Paper an, als auch einen interessanten

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I am hearing only bad news from radio Saudi Arabia …

Einige von euch erinnern sich vielleicht noch an den 80ger-Jahre Hit “Radio Africa” von Latin Quarter. An diesen fühlte ich mich erinnert, als ich als ich gestern mal wieder eine Negativmeldung über Saudi Arabien lass. “Spitzname Guantanamo – Frau will Scheidung” lautete die Schlagzeile in der Süddeutschen Zeitung. Die Meldung scheint dann auch so spektatkulär zu sein und so gut

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Discounter trip to Saudi-Arabia

I’ve been knowing Aldi since my childhood, the beautiful discounter market where many would like to spent their sunset years according to Willi Deutschmann, a German satirist. Back then, Aldi provided my village counting 27.000 souls with sugar-coated canned fruits, packaged Gouda cheese and above all the most delicious crisps in town. Over the years the can-in-boxes-on-shelves-discounter turned into a

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The judge and the fanatic

There is no sympathy for terrorists. There is no pity or understanding either. We agree on that. We, that’s the tenor of the report “In the camp of the prissy terrorists”, published in the magazine GEO, vol. 5/2009 and the author of this article. Anthony Horrowitz, the author of the GEO article describs an unusual prison in his story and

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Skyscraper challenge at the Gulf?

At the Persian Gulf there is hardly a day without superlatives: Burj Dubai about to become the highest tower of the world, already scratches the sky with its height of 600 meter. In autumn 2009 the mega-building shaped like a desert flower is supposed to be ready for use. The topic seems to occupy the minds of the German press.

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