It is suggested that 5,000-6,000 years ago people in the Middle East and North Africa started to allot specific lengths of time to tasks.

据说，在5000至6000年前，中东和北非的人们开始分配特定时间段来完成任务。

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Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

即便是严重依赖化石燃料出口的经济体所在的非洲和中东，在发展可再生能源方面也有巨大的潜力。

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We've spent the past two years studying entrepreneurship in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, and we've found hundreds of world-class ventures poised for significant growth there.

我们花了近两年时间研究中东，非洲和南亚的创业精神，在那里，我们发现数以百计的世界级冒险为有意义的增长做好了准备。

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Yet Egypt is not alone. Foreign investors worry about corruption, mismanagement and security problems across North Africa and the Middle East.

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So increasingly now, Africa, Middle East, all the way over to India and then to China, huge trade routes, huge investment routes.

趋势越来越明显，非洲，中东地区，一直往东到印度再到中国，一条巨大的商业渠道，巨大的投资线路。

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The festival is presenting theater,dance,music,film, literature and art from twenty-two countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

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The new materials include information on BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as well as nations from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

FORBES: International Energy Agency (Finally) Acknowledges Ascent of Renewable Energy Market

Acknowledging security threats posed by militant groups operating in North Africa, she said that political rebellions which have spread across Middle East and Africa over past two years have created opportunities for democratic change as well as instability.

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Whether or not China is able to avoid the "Malacca trap" by building pipeline and railways across Central Asia to the Middle East, it will still need Dubai as its hub for its growing reach into the Middle East and Africa.

CNN: Is Dubai the center of the world (again)?