Sentences with phrase «many arab»

Now the world's most popular app (in every country but the United States,) WhatsApp, found itself in the middle of the Arab - Israeli conflict when its website was hacked this past week by a pro-Palestinian group that posted a message given the title «You Got Pwned.»

In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United States.

Beard and moustache growth was rampant, especially in India where bare faces were scorned as being juvenile and un-manly, as well as in Arab countries where moustaches and beards were likewise associated with power.

Dollar - pegged countries like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) don't have currency depreciation to help offset to higher domestic interest rates.

Other deep - pocketed owners include the United Arab Emirates» Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who owns Manchester City, and Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea Football Club.

In 2016, at just 22 years old, Mazrui was appointed Minister of State for Youth Affairs in the United Arab Emirates.

The United Arab Emirates, to which Dubai belongs, need to diversify their energy mix.

Saudi Arabia, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, cut off travel and trade ties with Qatar last June, accusing it of supporting terrorism and Iran.

She also reported on the Arab Spring and its impact on the global markets, providing detailed coverage of the uprising in the island nation of Bahrain.

Fewer than one in every five workers is female in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman.

Fike said he was the assistant to the CEO at a company called the United Arab Emirates Agency in Dubai.

«In the past two years things have improved,» Garadian said, noting that before Arab Spring the Egyptian economy was growing around 6 percent annually.

The Trump administration plans on meeting with officials from Qatar as early as this week and is planning to meet with officials from the United Arab Emirates to seek financial transparency, and using commercial loan terms, said a person briefed on the matter.

She is also openly left - wing and has publicly criticized the current Israeli government, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for its policies against Arabs and other minorities.

I saw the significance of Twitter in the context of the Arab Spring, and the Ferguson riots and the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Fuelled by a tripling of oil prices during the last five years, Gulf Arab acquisitions of foreign companies have surged.

«I've been living in the United Arab Emirates for the past 6 years and I love it.

«Today's agreement by the State of Qatar is a strong first step in a process for commercial transparency and accountability, and we remain committed to working with the administration to address the harmful trade violations by the United Arab Emirates as well,» Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a statement.

To give one example, in 2016, a solar - powered aircraft landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to complete an epic and historic round - the - world journey.

«US and Iranian officials have both told me that they were basically communicating that if the US starts hitting President Assad's forces, Iran's closest Arab ally... these talks can not conclude.»

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Dubai - based port operator DP World put its name Sunday on the hyperloop technology it has already spent millions of dollars to develop as work continues to make it operational across the grand plans of its designers.

Oil - importing countries include Egypt, Pakistan, Morocco and Tunisia, while oil exporters include the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Kuwait and Qatar) as well as Iran, Algeria and Libya.

The immigration order cites the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks three times as justification for the ban, but the 9/11 hijackers were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Lebanon.

It has expanded across the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region through another site that it operates, Foodonclick.com, including Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates.

• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the United Arab Emirates» state - owned oil company, said it plans to seek an IPO for part of its business, CNBC reports.

Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt imposed trade and travel bans on Qatar in 2017, blaming the country for supporting terrorism.

During the Arab Spring of 2011, it enabled citizens in the middle east to organize and enact real political change, and in 2012, U.S. President Barack Obama marked his re-election with a tweet that at the time was the most retweeted yet.

It was no coincidence that the last surge of foreign investment in Canada's oilpatch followed the Arab Spring and came from China.

Each will betaken in a different country: Canada, theUnited Arab Emirates and India.

Mosa'ab Elshamy — Associated Press: Photojournalist Elshamy rose to prominence by capturing gripping images from Cairo during the Arab Spring, and he's continued to provide a lens for western audiences into the Middle Eastern world.

The conflict has dragged on for three years, sparking a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world's poorest nation.

The 2018 Annual NYUAD International Hackathon for Social Good in the Arab World will be held on April 27 - 29 at NYUAD.

Moscow has accused Qatar and other Gulf governments (notably Saudi Arabia) of supporting «terrorists» in Syria and rebels in other countries affected by the Arab Spring.

In 2009, Yahoo acquired Jordan - based web portal Maktoob for $ 164 million, marking the Silicon Valley Internet giant's entrance into the Arab world.

Investors include Arab Angel and Victress Capital.

With a focus to bolster youth entrepreneurship in the region, the Arab Youth Center (AYC), has launched the platform to gather Arab entrepreneurs and investors.

The agency polled nearly 12,000 people in Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States and narrowed the list of 100 companies down from 1,600 brands.

As CNBC looks at the risks and opportunities facing the media industry in the Arab World, Princess Rym Ali of Jordan, founder of the Jordan Media Institute (JMI), shares her views on the rise of social media.

Critics of the order have noted that the countries it targets seem arbitrary, and do not include countries that have posed serious terror threats in the past such as Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates.

Sohati has become a destination for health - related information in the Arab region, focusing on sharing content that is more easily accessible and understood.

The Kurdish - Arab town is under threat of a Turkish military operation that has already complicated the war in Syria.

NAIROBI, May 1 (Reuters)- A battle for access to seaports is underway in one of the world's unlikeliest places: Somalia, now caught up in a regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on one side, with Qatar backed by Turkey on the other.

A year ago, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates government signed a $ 336 million contract to expand the port of Bosaso, north of Mogadishu in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland.

It has been at the heart of political revolutions, such as the Arab Spring, it has given a voice to individuals who have been wronged and those socially disenfranchised, such as the impact it has had on raising awareness of the #metoo movement, or the GoFundMe campaign that raised over $ 200,000 for a homeless veteran.

Although she spends most of her time in New York, the Lebanese founder knows what's going on in the Arab tech startup world.

The Arab Spring is one such example.

A resupply shipment of about 100 pallets of arms and other aid has been positioned at a U.S. air base in the Gulf, awaiting Washington authorization for an airdrop to the Kurdish fighters and their Sunni Arab allies.

«We were approached by a group [from the United Arab Emirates] with rights to the Sudanese J. Tobrar gold concession, which is on the same mineral belt we are looking at in Egypt, so it made sense to explore the opportunity,» Galipeau says.

The now - repealed U.S. oil export ban dated back to an era of feared fuel shortages after Arab members of OPEC imposed an embargo against the United States in retaliation for U.S. support of the Israeli military.

The Manbij Military Council, part of the Kurdish - Arab SDF, first announced the handover last week, marking the first time that US - supported fighters had proposed ceding territory to regime forces.