MENA: dividends for the discerning | beyondbrics – FT.com

Since the ousting of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sparked civil unrest across the Mideast and north Africa, more parochial investors may have been tempted to lump the whole region into a pot marked “too risky”.

The more discerning spotted opportunity.

The Dubai Financial Market index is back to pre-Tahrir Square levels, having bounced 22 per cent since early March, a time when investors were indiscriminate in their fear of the civil unrest in the Gulf and beyond.