Middle East and North Africa

Navigating the Middle East’s perfect storm

A youth launches Twitter social media application on a tablet in Cairo, Egypt, January 24, 2016. In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets. Picture take January 24, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer - RTX23W6U

The Middle East is one of the world’s fastest adopters of social media Image: Reuters

Hani Ashkar
Senior Partner, Middle East, PwC
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