ARABIC BUSINESS, ECONOMY, INFORMATION, INDUSTRY, TRADE, FORECAST, NEWS, ANALYSIS & INTERACTIVE DEBATE

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<>Welcome to ARABIC-BUSINESS <>Center for Global Trade Development
_Arabic Economy and Business
_News briefs, Analysis, Opinions, Questions, Inter-active discussion
_Reports, forecast & tips on products, markets, areas
_Business Opportunities, Contacts for trade, export, import, investment

<>Ahlan-wa-sahlan <> Welcome <> Bienvenido <> Bienvenue<>

[] WHAT IS ARABIC-BUSINESS []

The Arabic Business world is one of the most ancient.
The oldest known traders have been Arabs.
They took the 'zero' and modern mathematics from ancient India to Europe.
They introduced many inventions to the world.
They developed sophisticated trading styles, mechanisms, markets, exchanges and accounting.
Arab business world's history is, indeed the very first chapter in the economic
history of the world.

Western business world have never attempted to explore the beauty of Arabic
Business.The world can learn lots of things from ancient Arabic style of
business.

The modern Arabic-business has been hindered by a set of obstacles and
the world in general has a very unclear picture of this very important and
essential part of the world economic system.

To understand Arabic-Business and explain in plain language - that is one
of the most important objective of Arabic-business.
The concept of Arab world - is a misunderstood term.

[] What is Arab World []

Arab Nationalism have had all kind of advocates including monarchs, secularists,
democrats and dictators.
The ARAB nationalism is a recent phenomena and its earliest creation was a new
"common" language by modernizing literary Arabic.
That language is now a standard throughout the Arab World.

Arabism is a concept, a myth, a feeling that binds all people in the Arabic
world from Casa Blanca to Dubai and from Sanna to Damascus.
Arabic is definitely more binding - than let us say - among Spanish
language speakers. Simply by speaking Spanish you may not enter into
a sub-culture of Latin America, whereas by speaking Arabic - even though
with an accent - one finds more fraternity and friendship.

Ibn-Batutta - the famous Moroccan - law student and traveler centuries ago,
went around the world - and he found that Arabic cultural threads were binding
most of the Arabic speakers in a vast area.

Ethnically all Arabic speakers may not be Arabs but modern Arabic
is the common lingua franca of a vast number of people which include
Arabs, Ethnic African natives, Berbers, Kurds, Jews,
Druze, 'Alawis, Armenians, Indians and many other communities.

[] What is the difference between Middle East and Arabic world []

Popularly the press has used the region comprising Egypt, The Arabian Peninsula,
and the states of Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Iraq - as
MIDDLE EAST.

Mistakenly and by sheer ignorance - the world has been using the term
Middle-East for Turkey, Iran, Libya and other countries of Maghreb (North Africa.)
Turkey and Iran - have nothing to do with Middle East or Arabic culture
except the religious beliefs.
For centuries the Europeans used the term Near East for some of these areas.
During World War II - the British called their military headquarters as the
Middle East Command - and after that it has become a more used term.

Middle East is a wrong and incorrect term for a vast region which we prefer
to call Arabic World.

A new Arab nationalism gained ground in 1980s based on regional economic
integration & the free movement of people and capital.
Groupings like Gulf Cooperation Council (1981) and The Arab Maghreb Union (1988).

This great trend has been recently hit due to some
people's great love to preach even in the market, authoritarian nationalism
and unexpected behavior of Mr. Saddam Hussein of Baghdad.

But these challenges and some others will not stop the flow of markets to sweep the region and
we are sure that, once again a common Arabic market will be a reality.

The Arabic world's business is called ARABIC-BUSINESS.

The Arabic world is very rich in culture and business is just another dimension
of culture - the life of market, street is as much as part of culture as
literature, customs
and other cultural expressions.

There is a deep vacuum of economic information from Arab world.
Arabic-business will try its best to fill that "gap" and
hopefully will provide enormous business opportunities it presents.

[] What will Arabic-Business do []

Arabic-business is an interactive forum for discussing,
exchanging, commenting on news, views, issues, opinions
on practices, customs and conducting business in Arabic Speaking countries
and areas of the world spread over in Gulf of Persia also known as Gulf of
Arabia, Near East,
Middle East, Western Asia, Northern Arab world, Maghreb, Mediterranean and
some other
parts of Arab world.

In addition it will cover issues relevant to Arabic origin people in
different parts of the Americas -North, Central, South America, Arab world &
Europe.

Arabic-business is moderated by
Center for Global Trade Development - an independent research organization
and its publications division offers some of the most qualitative, impartial
and comprehensive customized trade information on Arabic Markets.

|| Contributing to Arabic-business ||

You are welcome to Arabic-business

We invite you to write your impressions, views, questions, and
information in brief and send to us. Remember, you message will reach a very
wide audience in more 100 countries of the world.
Our readers are people like you, coming from different walks of life
and they have chosen to subscribe for their interest in Arabic affairs and
its economic and business issues.
Arabic world's communities are very diverse.
In one way or the other we are all linked somewhere.

The topics to write are as wide as your imagination.
Some of the Possible Topics to discuss in Arabic-business:

OO News of relevance to Arabic markets
OO Commentary and views
OO Emerging Markets
OO Innovations in International Marketing with Arabic focus
OO Info on countries, geo-economic areas in the process of Marketization.
OO Market liberalization
OO Privatization of public-sector firms

OO The foreign cultures, people and their influence on Arab world and its people.
OO The contribution of foreign races in Arabic speaking countries
OO The contribution of Arabic Diaspora, Arabic descent living in other continents.
OO The exposure of real faces of foreign influence - the positive and negative

OO Role of government and administration in the business
OO Business , Commercial Laws and regulations
OO Global tendencies and trends in specific products, markets and industries
OO Role of new technologies, telecommunication, Internet in the future of business
OO Impact of new technologies on local, national and global economicdevelopment

OO Relationship of Arabic countries with other countries & geo-economic areas
OO Relationship of Arab world with Asia, Europe, Ex-USSR, Latin & North America
OO Relationship of different areas of the world with Arab world and Arabic regions
OO Emerging changes in the developing nations
OO Economic blocs like Gulf Coop, Maghreb,
OO The impact of economic blocs on the national economies
OO Foreign markets and their impact on job- market, Opportunities in the
various segments of international trade

OO Import, Export, Investment in the emerging markets
OO Foreign trade and its influence on the national and local economies
OO Sourcing new products, markets and customers
OO Connecting with firms in all regions for exporting, marketing and sales
OO Business Opportunities - Contacts for business between 2 companies
OO And any other topic of interest to the subscribers

OO Role of languages in conducting trade in Arab world
OO Announcements of trade shows, exhibitions, meetings, conferences, activities
OO Job announcements
OO New books on Arabic-business scene
OO Book reviews
OO Travel to Arab world

2. WHAT IS THE ADDRESS TO CONTACT ARABIC-BUSINESS

The address is: arabic
This is the address to which you send messages & communicate with us.

Arabic-business members welcome your contributions, articles, views and any
other information you may wish to share with the world.
The messages may be moderated/edited.

3. HOW TO SUBSCRIBE

To subscribe send an email message to: majordomo
and type: subscribe arabic-business

or subscribe arabic-business your@email.address
( If you want to receive at a different address)

4. HOW TO UN SUBSCRIBE

To unsubscribe and leave the list, type: unsubscribe arabic-business
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5. HOW TO POST MESSAGES

Post any message to arabic

While posting any stuff, please keep in mind its focus.

The list owners reserve the right to delete anyone who post messages
that are abusive or counterproductive. The list-owners are not responsible
for any kind of claims or facts posted by any member.

You can ask questions. No question is "too simple."
There are lot of experts on this forum who may be able to reply your
query. If you have a question, someone else
probably also wants the answer.
Keep your messages short to conserve bandwidth and save
the resources of those subscribers who must pay to receive messages.

Use a descriptive subject line. Many people decide whether they want to
read a message based on the content of the subject line.
So write a newspaper style headline or key words.

Arabic-business is not a "chat" list. If you want to start up a
conversation with someone else, send it as
email directly to them, not to the entire readership.

We CAN only include edited, precise, clear, brief and standard
6 lines ADVERTISEMENTS related to Job Offers, Job Wanted,
Product wanted or offered or any other personal or general nature ads.

We are not responsible nor may reply to the ads which exceed the
standard limits. We are not liable nor responsible for any mail lost
or deleted.

IMPORTANT: The acceptance of the ad is entirely on the discretion
of the editors of Arabic-business and they reserve the right to accept or
cancel any ad on any ground.

6.OTHER IDEAS

ARAB WORLD has lot of common culture but there are a variety of social,
cultural, and
economic systems.
One has to understand that people in a country may not know some of
the issues or things which might be hot in our area - so be very descriptive
and if using abbreviations, atleast define them at the beginning.
Many members do not use English as their first language.
So please try to write simple and easy language.

If you read a message with errors or unusual sentence structure, try
to leave aside the linguistic skill of the writer and focus on what the author
is trying to assert.
If you cant resist to correct the writers' grammar than write him
a mail directly and suggest him.

We discourage flame-wars.

7.POLICY ON COMMERCIAL POSTINGS

Commercial postings are based on a nominal pre-paid fees.
Send us a mail to inquire about the cost. Please send your advertisement
with your request.

In case you think you have a special advertising or commercial message
you can sponsor the magazine for few days and you large ad will be
posted. For information on sponsorship email : eurospon

||Commercial Advertising||

For information on placing commercial ads please write
to : arabic

We are reaching at this point to a large number of readers
worldwide and can not flood their mail boxes with junk mail.

8. SPONSOR THE MAGAZINE

Your business can sponsor the magazine and your URL, commercial message
could be placed on every footer of each message/bulletin/issue.
Send inquiry for any proposals to : sponsor

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Arabic-business will be available on www from Early Dec 96 onwards.
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