Month: December 2011

By NOORA FARAJ AL ARABIYA WITH AGENCIES [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuPrNeFDluw] The Moroccan city of Casablanca is the country’s largest, so it should come as no surprise that it is now home of the largest mall, not...

Arab Spring Gets Mixed Results in Advancing Human Rights Voice of America December 02, 2011 Arab Spring Gets Mixed Results in Advancing Human Rights Nico Colombant While the so-called Arab Spring, which continues to this day,...

By Sarah Abdullah The Islamic Development Bank, a Jeddah-based multilateral lender, said it approved a record $4.2 billion in financing for projects around the world this year. Funding included $105 million for a...

By Rudy Ruitenberg Grain cargoes exported from the French port of Rouen, Europe’s biggest cereal-shipping hub, slumped 39 percent to the lowest level in four weeks as Algeria and Morocco took less wheat. There were 116,172...

Bloomberg View By Pankaj Mishra My last column, on the strangely renewable appeal of political Islam, provoked some strong reactions from both extremes of the ideological spectrum. Some correspondents urged me to reconsider...