media business news events founded london united kingdom 1957 headquarters dubai media city dubai united arab emirates number of employees 120 2008 slogan meed middle east business intelligence website www.meed.com meed abbreviated from the former name middle east economic digest is a 54 year old business intelligence tool for the middle east and north africa mena providing analysis and commentary on middle eastern markets companies people and data on the regional projects market . contents 1 current business activities 1.1 meed magazine 1.2 meed.com 1.3 meed projects 1.4 meed insight 1.5 meed events 2 history 3 services 4 references 5 external links current business activities edit meed magazine edit meed magazine cover meed publishes a business to business magazine for subscribers every friday featuring news analysis and commentary features and interviews and a weekly special report . circulation according to a 2009 audit by abc audit bureau of circulations uk stands at 6 338 . 1 meed has forged a reputation for breaking middle eastern news since its 1957 launch . when the late rafiq hariri drew up plans to rebuild a war shattered lebanon meed met the prime minister and asked him to explain them . 2 when colonel gaddafi unveiled the first part of his great manmade river meed took a front row seat at the ceremony and quizzed the engineers . 3 while us tanks were still rolling towards baghdad in march 2003 meed obtained plans from washington that described how the us was hoping to rebuild the country . 4 three months before going public meed revealed dp world s ipo plans . 5 6 7 abdalla el badri announced opec s potential move from us dollar to euro pricing to meed . 8 meed broke news of saudi arabia moving ahead with plans for a mile high tower in jeddah 9 which would make it the tallest tower in the world and nakheel s plans to create a tower over one kilometre high then called nakheel tower later announced as dubai s harbour tower to trump emaar s burj khalifa . 10 11 meed is used as a source of middle east information by the us and british governments energy information administration united states congress and the british foreign and commonwealth office . the dedication made by abdullah ii of jordan in 2007 demonstrates meed s positive contribution to the middle east for over 50 years . the celebration of this milestone is a testament to the distinguished insight into the region meed has provided to its readers for five decades . your acuity has recorded the region s diversity and potential not just its challenges and crises . 12 meed.com edit as well as publishing all magazine content meed.com also produces daily country and industry news tenders contract awards economic data and market trends with an emphasis on projects . its archive dates back to 1994 . content on the site is broken down by 10 sectors and 19 countries construction economy finance industry markets oil & gas power telecoms and information technology transport and water algeria bahrain egypt iran iraq jordan kuwait lebanon libya morocco oman gaza west bank qatar saudi arabia syria sudan tunisia united arab emirates and yemen . meed projects edit a middle east and north africa projects tracker . 13 the index tracks more than 7 000 projects worth over 5.6 trillion . sectors covered are alternative energy construction fertiliser industrial infrastructure liquefied natural gas gas processing metal oil and gas production petrochemicals power water and waste . meed insight edit a bespoke research data and analysis service meed insight specialises in middle east industry or sector scoping market surveys evaluation and forecasting market entry assistance project overviews and competitor analysis . core sectors are oil and gas petrochemicals banking and finance manufacturing transport and logistics power and water . meed events edit meed runs three summits arabian hotel investment conference ahic arabian world construction summit awcs and arabian power & water summit and has more than 25 middle east industry and country focused conferences in its portfolio as well as networking clubs focusing on uae and qatar construction and power and water . history edit the first issue of middle east economic digest meed was published on 8 march 1957 . meed s founder and driving force for the next two decades was elizabeth collard a champion of arab causes who was to become an adviser to uk prime minister harold wilson on middle east affairs and a friend of gamal abdel nasser of egypt and king hussein of jordan . she also helped to establish the council for the advancement of arab british understanding caabu . 14 with two part time secretarial assistants meed was produced on a hand cranked ronco printing machine . every friday evening friends and relatives would help staple and stuff envelopes with the 12 page newsletter . lacking any editorial resources the middle east economic digest was a compilation from newspapers and other reports . newspapers were flown in weekly from cairo and beirut translated and condensed . by the time meed was acquired by emap now known as ascential in 1986 it had a staff of 20 full time journalists and 12 researchers and newsroom assistants to cover middle eastern business and project news . in 2006 emap middle east also acquired business website ame info . services edit middle east projects news data and analysis email newsletters events and networking project tracking rss feeds tailored research and off the shelf reports and tenders listings . references edit abc audit bureau of circulations uk hariri s bold vision meed . meed.com 4 february 1994 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . libya through the looking glass meed . meed.com 9 august 2002 . retrieved on 6 january 2012 . us reconstruction plans for iraq meed . meed.com 14 march 2003 . retrieved on 6 january 2012 . ipo rumours circle dp world meed . meed.com 14 july 2006 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . reuters . uk.reuters.com 8 february 2008 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . gaffen david . 8 february 2008 wall street journal . blogs.wsj.com . retrieved 6 january 2012 . opec considers switch to euro pricing meed . meed.com 8 february 2008 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . hyder designing mega tall tower meed . meed.com 13 february 2008 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . nakheel increases height of tall tower to 1.4 kilometres meed . meed.com 20 june 2008 . retrieved 6 january 2012 . forbes . forbes.com 25 february 2008 . retrieved on 6 january 2012 . king abdullah s letter to meed . meed.com 30 june 2007 . retrieved on 6 january 2012 . meed archived 24 july 2009 at the wayback machine . elizabeth collard and the birth of meed meed . meed.com 30 june 2007 . retrieved on 6 january 2012 . external links edit meed.com emap website ame info website meed projects website dubai lynx website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title meed & oldid 731574712 categories media companies of the united arab emiratesascentialmagazines established in 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