20/08/2008
Arab Times: Thousands of workers of two cleaning companies are on strike over non-payment and unlawful deductions of their salaries, a Bangladeshi embassy official told the Arab Times. Some workers of the two companies said about 6,000 workers are on strike since Sunday, even as the embassy said that it does not have the exact figure.
20/08/2008
Gulf Times: The Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) plans to end its system of charging import duty for the country of final destination and may replace it with a simpler mechanism, a United Arab Emirates official said.
19/08/2008
Arab News: Despite the petrodollar windfall Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been raking in as a result of the increase in oil prices over the last few months, new research suggests that there is an even bigger investment to be made in the region.
19/08/2008
Bahrain Tribune: Over 1000 internationally renowned heavyweight bankers and experts from the financial industry will attend the 15th annual World Islamic Banking Conference (WIBC) to be held later this year in Bahrain.
By Mark Trevelyan - 18/04/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday.
By Sue Pleming - 18/04/2008
WASHINGTON, April 16 (Reuters) - The United States is hopeful Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations will offer diplomatic and financial help to Iraq at a conference of its neighbors next week, said a senior U.S. official on Wednesday.
Source: The McKinsey Quarterly - 18/04/2008
Reviewed: 20-Feb-07
The Gulf Cooperation Council needs to reform its labour markets in order to end dependence on cheap foreign labour and increase employment levels and productivity of its national workforce. Currently migrant workers take 60% of jobs in the private sector. In the United Arab Emirates, the most extreme case, that figure is 99%. Locals cannot compete when wages are about half the minimum needed to support a family.
Words by: James Curtis, World Business - 18/04/2008
Published: 20-Nov-06
As overseas money flows into the region and economic integration beckons, the GCC is seeking to reduce its dependence on oil.
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18/08/2008
the ICC & the Darfur Crisis
Speakers:
Dr Gibreil Ibrahim Mohamed Fediel*,
Economic Advisor to the Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan
Dr Khalid AlMubarak**,
Media Councillor, Sudan Embassy
Tuesday, 12th August 2008
Organised jointly by Open Discussions and The Gulf Cultural Club
28/06/2008
a lecture by
* Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor, The Times
hosted by the Gulf Cultural Club and Open Discussions on
Tuesday 24th June
07/07/2008
Tuesday, 15th July @ 6.30pm
Abrar House, Edgware Road, London W2
What is the point of becoming a councillor? Does it make any real difference? For many, local politics has been the poorer relation to the glamorous world represented in the national, parliamentary stage. Yet, a lot of our lives are affected by what happens in local councils up and down the country. Is it time, therefore, for British Muslims to think about making a make a practical difference at a local level?
21/07/2008
Radical Islam in Europe
AUTHOR: Alison Pargeter
Following the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid, radical Islam is presumed to be an increasingly potent force in Europe. Yet beneath the media hysteria, very little is actually known about it.
09/07/2008
This magical collection of stories, gathered from the rich treasury of Persian folk and fairytales, tell of love and longing, fate and human ingenuity, loss and grace.
24/06/2008
The Failure of Political Islam
Olivier Roy
ISBN: 1850438803
Edition Reissue
Paperback
I B Tauris & Co Ltd
In stock (immediate despatch)
£15.99
4 used available from £8.29
For many Westerners, the 1990s may seem the era of Islamic fundamentalism with radical Muslims everywhere on the march, remaking societies and altering the landscape of contemporary politics. Offering a corrective to such a view, the French political philosopher Olivier Roy depicts an entirely different spectacle - political Islam is a failure.
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