Ampersand looks at some of the implications of the recent phenomenal growth in the Middle East:

• Middle East Myths Beginning to Fade?
  
  
• Step Change
  
  
• Regional Reputations
  
  
• From “Zakat” to CSR - Corporate Responsibility in the Middle East
  
  
• Ethnic Or Ethical, Islamic Finance Comes Of Age
  
  
• Bridging the Gulf - The Rewards of Internal Communications in the Middle East

From an international viewpoint it is sometimes easy to forget how local some issues are – just as locally it is sometimes challenging to understand just how global business has become. Nowhere could this be more true than in the Middle East today.

I hope you will find this spotlight on the Middle East informative and helpful for your own communications policy.

Paul Taaffe
Chairman and Chief Executive, Hill & Knowlton