By Andrew Scott, The National Al Islami Foods, the Dubai-based halal food producer, is planning a major expansion drive in Russia and the Caucasus region in a bid to tap their Muslim populations, estimated at 284 million. The company is set ...
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Opinion: Halal-nomics — Need for standardisation, integration
One of the top 100 thinkers in the world, Turkish born Nouriel Roubini, was at Dubai’s Global Islamic Economy Summit (GIES), and he stated, ‘…there is a need for a more resilient system, and that’s where there is potential for ...
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I came to attend the first ever Global Islamic Economy Summit in Dubai, UAE. Academia, policy planners, civil society members, ministers, bankers, professionals and researchers from all over the Muslim world, the USA, the UK, Germany, Austria and France joined ...
Read More »Global Islamic Economy Summit and World Expo 2020 boost Dubai’s Halal credentials
By Jonathan A. J. Wilson – Huffington Post So, at the end of October, UK Prime Minister David Cameron issued the following bold statement: “I don’t just want London to be a great capital of Islamic finance in the Western ...
Read More »Opinion: Onward to Islamic finance and halal industry 2020
By Rushdi Siddiqui, Khaleej Times In one week, Dubai hosted two major Islamic finance conferences — the Global Islamic Economy Summit, or GIES, under the patronage of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of ...
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