Ibrahim Maalouf (Liban), trompetista, mezcla los estilos occidentales y orientales y trabaja con artistas de todo el mundo.

UNESCO: CULTURA

Liban Egal, a Somali entrepreneur who grew up in Baltimore in America, has started work with an American-trained chemist to produce bio-diesel from animal fat, which the cattle-herding Somalis normally have in abundance, along with used oil and chemicals.

ECONOMIST: Somalia

Elias Khoury, du Liban, et M.

UNESCO: Prix Sharjah pour la culture arabe