This book explores the evolving roles of energy stakeholders and geopolitical considerations, leveraging on the dizzying array of planned and actual projects for solar, wind, hydropower, waste-to-energy, and nuclear power in the region. Over the next few decades, favorable economics for low carbon energy sources combined with stagnant oil demand growth will facilitate a shift away from today’s fossil fuel-based energy system. Will the countries of the Middle East and North Africa be losers...

Qing Chen has six hours left.The numbers glow beneath the skin of his forearm — a countdown no one else can see, no camera can capture, and nothing can stop. When it reaches zero, his world shatters, and he wakes in a high-tech prison in another dimension.Prison 18 has mechanical guards, inmates with cybernetic arms, and a man who plays chess like he's already won. Li Shutong sees something in Qing Chen that no one else has ever noticed. But interest from powerful people is...