Software Business in the Middle East

(c) Picture from ArabianBusiness.com.

The list of the most influential Arabs in the World has been published.

It is not very clear what they actually mean by word “influence”. In the original article they say it is a kind of ability to affect thoughts and behavior of other people. Or “if one man dyed his hair green, how many others would follow? The more that did, the more powerful that man is.”

It doesn’t explain much about how to measure the influence, especially remembering how some magazines used to award the best software solutions or best small companies in the region – kind of example from here. But I hope this list is compiled by serious people with serious arguments.

The leading position in the list is kept by Prince Al-Walid bin Talal for the past four years . The World’s Most Powerful Arabs list is divided by countries and industries. There are only seven persons from Technology, and three of them are from UAE:

Mohammed Omran – the chairman of the leading mobile operator Etisalat that was the only mobile operator in the country until 2007.

Ibrahim Sharaf – the first person from UAE who will take the journey into the space by 2009.

Osman Sultan – CEO of the second mobile operator du in UAE.

Despite the fact that members of the royal family are not normally included into the list, this year you will find HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum in it. As they say, it’s only thanks to his business achievements – being CEO of Emirates Airlines, he led the company to become the most profitable airline in the world with the ambition to become also the largest airline company. As part of company growth, on the past Paris Air Show Emirates Airline made a purchase of 93 airplanes for about US$23 billion (via ArabianBusiness.com)

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Today on one of the meetings I was asked if I came from France. They told they heard French accent in my English.

I guess it’s good time to start collecting such funny stories – some people told me I spoke Swedish with Norwegian accent, others told I got German accent in my English, now French accent comes up. One old lady seriously asked me how I managed to learn speaking Russian so well, with only slight accent from Baltic countries

It’s kind of a characteristic of Dubai and UAE – there are people from all over the World and everybody hears his own accent in other people’s English.
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Happy New Year to everybody! I wish you a lot of fun in the New Year, and a lot of success - both in professional and personal life.

On the picture - in Dubai we have Christmas trees growing among palms

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