The economic history of the modern Arab world
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  - Industry in the Arab world
 
        - ArabicNews.com, 1 May 1998. In a seminar
	  recently held in Damascus under the title 
The Arab Common
	  Market: Problems and Prospects,
 well-known Syrian
	  industrialist Riad Seif talked about industry in the Arab
	  world. Reasons for industrial lag, and effect of petroleum
	  wealth. 
  - Works of the 74th session of the Arab
    economic unity council at the ministerial level started
    today
  
        - ArabicNews.com, 5 December 2001. The Arab
	  ministers will evaluate the council's
	  efforts to revitalize the common Arab market, the
	  meetings of the specialized qualitative Arab federations and
	  the meetings on trade exchange promotion.
 
  - Arab Thumbs Down on Free Trade
 
        - By Reese Erlich, AlterNet, 16 July 2003. Beirut, Lebanon
	  The Bush administration has hyped formation of a free trade
	  zone with Arab countries and dangled the possibility of $1
	  billion in economic aid to cooperating countries. Many Arabs 
	  are saying 
no thanks
 to this gesture of American
	  munificence.  
	  
  - King Abdallah and President Mubarak launch
    pan-Arab pipeline
  
        - By Dalya Dajani, Jordan Times, Monday 28 July
	  2003. King Abdullah of Jordan and Egyptian President Hosni
	  Mubarak on Sunday inaugurated a strategic pan-Arab gas
	  pipeline that will land Egypt on the list of global gas
	  exporters.