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Do you think Barack Obama's Middle East policies will help restore the occupied Golan Heights to Syria?
Yes
33%
No
67%
Total votes: 784
Entrepreneurship
Dictating an Arab web
An event vital to the Arab presence on the net has just transpired. In a true stroke of innovation, Habib Haddad and his dedicated team at Language Analytics LLC, have brought us Yamli, a web tool that transliterates Arabic words typed on an English keyboard into Arabic script.
The potential effects this has on international communication, Arabic blogging and content development is immense. Already, users have flocked to the site to assert their Arabic identity on the net. Interestingly, a majority of Yamli users are in Arabic countries, accounting for nearly 75% of all use. Habib Haddad spoke to FW: about what inspired the creation of this invaluable tool and the importance of using Arabic on the net.
Abu Ghazaleh: I am not worried about Syria
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh is one of
the leading entrepreneurs both in the Arab World and international community. A
man of principle, talent, character, and vision, he was born in Jaffa, Palestine, in 1938,
and studied business administration at the American University
of Beirut (AUB). He is founder and chairman of the Talal Abu Ghazaleh
Organization (TAGorg), the largest Arab global group of professional service firms
in the fields of accounting, management, and consulting. He is also vice-chair
of the United Nations Information and Communications Technologies Task Force
(ICT TF) and chairman of the ICC’s Working Group on Internet Governance and ICC
Commission on E-Business Information Technologies and Telecoms (EBITT).
Abu-Ghazaleh is the founder and president of three not-for- profit organizations
namely; the Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA), the Arab Knowledge
Management Society (AKMS), the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP)
and Licensing Executives Society-Arab Countries (LES- AC). He came to Damascus in May 2007 in
his capacity as Deputy Chairman of the Global Compact initiative of the United
Nations and gave this inter-view to Forward.
Something else...
Picasso once said “I begin with an idea
and then it becomes something else.” Ali Mahmoud is a man who had an idea; that
Syria
was in dire need of a branding agency that would undoubtedly go hand-in-hand
with privatization and opening of the Syrian market. The idea materialized
earlier this year when Keybrand opened its first branch in Syria.