Arab cities in the Gulf have changed rapidly and massively within a very short period. Historically, their economies were based on trade, and they have always been cosmopolitan, maintaining a delicate balance between inclusion and exclusion of various ethnic and religious groups. In the post-oil...

The Middle East / North Africa (MENA) region faces serious food insecurity, with an increasing gap between food production and consumption. Using resource advantage theory from macromarketing, we demonstrate that the agriculture / agribusiness industry would be highly competitive with economic...

The Arab Spring has suddenly overturned dictatorships in a number of countries, which now have a chance to reverse decades of stagnation which has left the countries behind in development and the populations impoverished. We propose a framework which can be useful in guiding policy as these...

The Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region faces serious food insecurity, with an increasing gap between food production and consumption. One key problem is ineffective marketing systems connecting production (or productive potential) to consumption on a regional scale. Using resource advantage...