Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East – 1 January 2016

Bloomberg Businessweek Middle East provides unparalleled intelligence and surprising insights to powerful business leaders. Offering indispensable content, it aims to provide influential decision makers with new ways to innovate, compete and move ahead.

It offers surprising and timely perspectives on the most important issues of today and unique stories you won’t find anywhere else.

Published in English, its Middle East edition will explore everything from global economics, technology and finance to travel, fashion and lifestyle pursuits - from a fresh and original perceptive.

With the new Star Wars movie tearing up the box office around the world, a spotlight has been shone on Abu Dhabi, where significant portions of the latest instalment in the saga were filmed. This week’s issue looks at the development of the UAE’s film industry, and the challenges it faces as it continues to participate in Hollywood blockbusters and tries to nurture its own, homegrown talent. The first edition of the New Year also reports on an African business that is revolutionising the electricity market, an Arab-Israeli leader trying to win over Washington, and Saudi Aramco’s Asian strategy.