Thanks to Messers Sarbanes and Oxley, I am going to be spending the majority of the coming nine months hopping around the major business centres in the Middle East.. now I have been to most before, and this time, don't want to waste the chance to catch up with FT regulars, over a jug of freshly prepared Saudi Champagne !

I'll be working on the itinerary shortly, but just wanted to see if there are many people lurking out there in Kuwait, Jeddah, Beirut, Damascus, Casablanca, Algiers, as well as good old reliable Cairo and Dubai?

Heck, I may even start taking Arabic classes..
Cheers

Graeme