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CNBC announces new Middle East show

CNBC announced Wednesday that it is launching a new series covering business and finance in the Middle East that will start July 4.

CNBC’s Yousef Gamal El-Din will present a new half-hour series, “Access: Middle East” that will air every two weeks Gamal El-Din will travel around the region taking a look at the key business centers, interviewing top business leaders and policy makers. The program will examine the economy and highlight those industries leading the growth.

“Access: Middle East” will air across CNBC’s regional networks in Europe, the Middle East, Afrida, Asia-Pacific and on CNBC World in the United States, with a combined reach of more than 190 million homes. The series will be produced from CNBC’s bureau in Dubai.

“The Middle East remains a critical region for business and finance and the start of Access: Middle East allows us to build on our business day coverage of the region, with a dedicated half-hour program that will give investors more insight in to the region and where best to place their money,” said John Casey, vice president, news & programming, CNBC International, in a statement.

The series kicks off with a focus on Dubai.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.