Monthly Archives: January 2018


Written by: Nicole O’Donnell Arbitration has long been used in the Middle East as a key method to dispute resolution. “In the Pre-Islamic Arab Community, self-help tended to be the most relied upon form of dispute resolution.”[1] If self-help mechanisms failed, a “hakam (an arbitrator)” was appointed, and “the parties […]

International Commercial Arbitration in the Middle East