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Dr
Abdulrazak Abyad
Welcome to the inaugural
issue of the Middle East Journal of Business
(MEJB). While the original aim of the journal
was to provide an insider approach to doing
business in the Middle East, and to assist
Middle East businesses wishing to build
globally; prior to launch the MEJB has grown
considerably in scope.
My co-Editor, Lesley Pocock, will
talk more about this, which is encompassed
by our title theme - Economic Humanism.
This will be a theme that we carry through
each issue and we have some excellent contributors
lined up to keep the dialogue going.
I'd like to introduce our eminent Board,
drawn from a wide variety of interest groups,
both in the Middle East and globally.
From the Middle East we have Dr Kamran
Mofid who is of Iranian origin and who is
well known for his Globalisation for the
Common Good conferences. We have a number
of faculty members from the College of Business
and Economics CBE at UAE University at Al
Ain. These include Marouane Ben Bechir Trimeche,
who was trained in Tunisia and Japan and
whose interest is in International Marketing
and International Business Export marketing.
In addition we have Mr Zulfiqar M. Aslam,
who is Instructor of MIS. He is a highly
proficient and vibrant academic with 12
years of administrative as well as teaching
experience in business, information systems
programming, advanced database management
courses and active learning methodologies.
From Kuwait University we have both Dr Adel
Rabeh who is Assistant Professor Finance
and Financial Institutions and has a particular
interest in Insurance and Risk Management,
and Prof Dr Mahdi M. B. Hadi. From Qatar
we have Mr Omar Wajih ELkhatib the General
Manager of Prime Labels (Subsidiary of Nasser
Biin Khaled Al-Thani Holding Company).
From the International
University of Monaco Prof Francis Ile ,
who is Consultant in International Marketing
and a full Professor at the International
University of Monaco, where he teaches marketing
and international business for BSBA and
EMBA students. He also teaches part time
at the Faculté des Lettres de Nice
and at ESAIP engineering school in Grasse,
France. He has been lecturing in the last
few years at EDHEC Business School in Nice,
at the Ferghana International Management
Institute in Uzbekistan, at Ecole Nationale
d'Administration in Libreville, Gabon, at
Institut Supérieur de la Magistrature
at Rabat, Morocco as well as Newcastle Business
School at the University of Northumbria
. Prof Dana Nadarajah, who is the Director,
Executive MBA , The International University
of Monaco, and Prof William S. Lightfoot
, Associate Dean of Graduate Programs The
International University of Monaco. He has
taught courses in management to students
from over 50 different countries, and has
lectured in North America, Asia, and Europe.
From the United Kingdom
we have Dapo Oyewole, Executive Director,
Centre for African Policy & Peace Strategy
(CAPPS). From Australia we are privileged
to have among us Mr Michael Kavanagh CEO
Australia Arab Chamber of Commerce. Finally
we would like to welcome as the first of
our Contributing, Editors, Dr Michael Ellis,
from the Medical Renaissance Group, and
the Centre for Change.
Ms. Lesley Pocock
Welcome to the
Middle East Journal of Business, an information
resource designed to bring Middle East and
International business closer together.
Our inaugural issue carries the theme of
Economic Humanism, which will be an ongoing
focus of the MEJB. At the start of the 21st
century the planet is under increasing stress
due to over population of humans, over-consumption
of global resources, polluting and planet-degrading
activities, global disease epidemics, loss
of species and diversity, gross inequities,
extreme poverty and the channelling of resources
into fewer and fewer hands.
To restore balance we need to look at our
value systems and put value only on sustainable
and ethical activities that do not deplete
the planet or the lives of those who inhabit
the planet.
All business activities should be a win-win
situation - i.e. provision of goods and
services should be equally valuable to the
customer as to the provider.
The Middle East was the cradle of civilisation
of humankind and the earliest centre of
human learning. At the launch of this resource
for the region, and for those who do business
with the region, it is time for us all to
look afresh at where we have come from and
where we are heading as a global population,
and evaluate our 'progress' and the 'price'
we have paid to achieve this.
The MEJB will lead world dialogue on these
issues and in the coming editions will feature
the world's top writers on economic humanism
and related topics.
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