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Article: The world's 50 most influential Arabs: it is no easy task in a region raising its profile on an almost daily basis to select the 50 most influential people and, of course, unlike the richest or even the most powerful, such a list must by its very nature remain fairly subjective. How does one quantify "most influential"? The short answer might be "with difficulty".(Cover story)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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The world's 50 most influential Arabs
First of all, we asked a selected number of people from within the region and a variety of what might be termed "movers and shakers" living elsewhere for their opinions, to give us a global, rather than a localised overview. We approached people in the Gulf, Europe, the Maghreb, the Americas as well as the Near, Middle and Far East, asking each to nominate five living Arabs and explain in a couple of sentences why each had been selected, then we collated the information. We were sometimes surprised but always fascinated by the results. There can be no winners or losers because different people exert influence in different ...