Much has been written about the role and presence of the Arabs in
the world at the beginning of this millennium, and their ability to
meet the challenges overwhelming our planet, bristling as it is
with science, technology and latest lethal weapons. Now this new
book by Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber penetrates to the heart of
the Arab situation by a new route, hitherto uncharted. The author
gives us a practical and precise summary of his own contemporary
Arab experience from an intercontinental perspective, notable for
its success, variety and modernity. Sheikh Mohamed has been able to
scale the peaks of international corporate and institutional life,
and impose his presence and voice upon them. Here, in a
distillation of wisdom drawn from a unique career, he presents us
with a practical account of the lessons of his success, so that
they can be applied to economic and social institutions and thence
to society at large. This book is a translation of the Arabic
original, first published in 2009. It therefore pre-dates the
events of the`Arab Spring' and other recent upheavals in the Arab
world. Its insights are none-theless valid, and are just as
applicable to the Arab world today as they were four years ago.
Indeed, they have taken on extra urgency in the light of the
author's prescient diagnosis of the Arab peoples' thirst for
democracy, human rights and proper citizenship in their own
countries. SHEIKH MOHAMED BIN ISSA AL JABER was born in Jeddah,
Saudi Arabia, in 1959, and is today a prominent international
businessman and philanthropist. He is founder and chairman of the
MBI Group, a worldwide investment institution operating in the
hospitality, real estate, finance, oil and gas, and food
industries, as well as the founder and sole patron of the MBI Al
Jaber Foundation, a UK-registered charity focused on building
bridges between the Middle East and the wider world. Among many
other roles he is Special Envoy of the Director General of UNESCO
for tolerance, democracy and peace, official UN spokesman for good
governance, founder of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS,
and a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. With a Foreword by
Professor Michael Worton.
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