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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...