Middle East FECs driving forward


David Snook reports from the Middle East on how the region’s FEC sector is reacting to the recent unrest in the area and its emergence from the recession


MARTIAL law in Algeria, riots in Tunisia, disturbances in Libya, revolution in Egypt; tyres burning in Bahrain, unease in Jordan…. …Kuwait heads off unrest by giving every Kuwaiti citizen


US$3,500…. …and through it all, the amusement industry in the


Middle East – so far – shrugs it off. While there are coins to go into the cashbox the doors are open. Even if two Magic Planets in Egypt get trashed by rioters.


22 InterPark May-June 2011 Not to forget, of course, Iraq’s internecine warfare,


Yemen’s pro-democracy protests or even the Palestinian problems with Israel. Throughout the Middle East and the neighbouring


countries there is considerable unrest and while it is not normally our job to look beyond the amusement industry, national and international circumstances may heavily influence the business.


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