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Building Relationships in
the Middle East
What do I know?
Cultural Awareness
Islam - National Cultures  Politics  Communication
Building Relationships
Relationship Driven Cultures
Would you
lie?
Plenty would
WHO
is more
important than
WHAT
Hierarchy
Honour & Face
Communication
Business & Pleasure
How do I build a relationship?
Patience
Get Personal
Get Physical?
Wasta
Keep faces the same
Gender
Where are you working?
Status
Its not easy
Working Virtually
Thank You
@neil_kwint
www.kwintessential.co.uk
 Where is ME?
 Who am I?
 Cultural awareness spans many areas  relationship for me is #1 priority when
working with ME as its hardest to break
 Why relationship driven culture? Theory.
 Who is more important than what
 Seeing it in practice  honour, communication (indirect, polite, no/yes, inshaallah,
mixing biz + personal, shisha, paying food,
 How to build/what to do  patience, give 100% to small talk (its doing you good),
get personal, frequent contact, wasta, remember if ppl change you need to start
again,
 Gender considerations  remember attitudes to women vary from state to state,
Prophets wife worked, in Gulf women achieve status through nationality and
profession, in places like Saudi you need a mahram (see if you have local contacts),
reality is also that it can be tough
 Working virtually

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UKTI Building Relationships in the Middle East

Editor's Notes

  • #2: Welcome Where am I talking about? Cover area and cultural/religious links
  • #4: Lots of things to learn but to me relationships are priority as hardest to break.