 This is a very important class. It gathers a lot of people from different and diversified institutes and it helps to create awareness about the governance of family business. In the Arab world we don't have a lot of research about the dynamic of the family business, the continuity of the family business, the sustainability of the family business. This meeting creates a dynamic that will stimulate research about one of the most critical pillars of the economy of the Arab world, which is family business. When I went to business school I never read a case study on a Middle Eastern family business and how they went through these challenges that we went through. So definitely I think it's a need to have more academics, more research on Middle Eastern family businesses. I think family businesses are interested in knowing about our research and it's our job to start disseminating our research. I think this is one of the areas where this conference is contributing to. We are heading towards that. This first academic conference is also a big step because it allows researchers to gather, to meet and to encourage each other to keep on researching family businesses in the Arab world. I think we can talk about the role of women in family businesses especially in the Middle East. We can also talk about the social and the CSR side of families. My wish and my hope is that the awareness about family businesses in the Arab world continue to progress.