Dubai's Sex Crackdown
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
The Sex and the City sequel faces delays after Dubai rejected its film permit. A decision, Eric Pape reports, reflective of a morals code now threatening this reeling free-market playground.
Egypt's Billionaire Murderer
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
With the eyes of the world on President Obama in Egypt, the sentencing of a powerful Egyptian tycoon to hang for ordering the killing of a glamorous songstress shows how the Mideast's old rules about money and immunity are crumbling.
Dubai's Pop-Star Murder
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
A powerful Egyptian billionaire is sentenced to hang for ordering the killing of a glamorous songstress, showing how the Mideast's old rules about money and immunity are crumbling.
Commuting to Iraq
Kyle McEneaney is a vice president of Northern Gulf Partners, which provides asset management and financial advisory services in Iraq. He is also a research manager at Ergo, a leading primary research firm. He speaks Arabic and regularly travels to Iraq to locate and review business opportunities.
On the sixth anniversary of the Iraq war, Kyle McEneaney, who travels to Baghdad monthly for his investment business, describes how normalcy is finally returning to the city's violent streets.
Hard Times Hit Dubai
Only months ago the world watched the lavish opening of the Palm Hotel in Dubai. Now the government is forced to protect Emerati citizens from losing their jobs to foreigners.
Tunku Varadarajan, the canny opinion editor at Forbes.Com, published an excellent and insightful essay by Eckart Woertz, of the Gulf Research Institute in Dubai. At a time when it's fashionable to write off Dubai, once the poster city fo...
Pranay Gupte is a veteran foreign correspondent, columnist, editor, and has produced countless documentaries. He is the author or editor of 10 books; his newest book is Global Emirates: An Anthology of Tolerance and Enterprise.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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