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The article sheds limelight on one of the more important business families in Dubai, the Al Naboodahs. This revises and corrects some of the statements in Michael Field's book The Merchants. As is shown the Al Naboodahs do not only have strong links with the Dubai Chamber of Commerce, the Federal National Council as well as the National Bank of Dubai, but their business connections also extend throughout the Emirates and beyond to Riyadh and Sanaa. (DÜI-Asd)

In The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare tests the
viability in the contemporary world of a marriage of venture capital and
Christian ideals. The question that the play implicitly asks is whether
Antonio can be simultaneously a merchant and a Christian: that is, a
merchant and not in some way also a Jew, a Shylock. This article shows
that although Antonio remains a model of friendship, love, and care in
his relationships with all his Christian acquaintances, his stature as
a Christian, as well as his attempt to disassociate himself from usury,
is undermined by his obsessive hatred of Shylock. Furthermore, the aura
of aristocratic Belmont and Portia's complete victory over Antonio in
the final two acts deal a serious blow not only to Antonio's image,
but to the notion of merchantry as a noble and knightly venture. The
self-serving dichotomy between evil Jewish usurer and good Christian
merchant turns out to be an inviable one--a construct that, unlike
Belmont, cannot be sustained through artifice and rhetoric alone.